Bamidbar 5762 - May 10, 2002

Editor's Note

Is it possible to "do nothing"? Can two plus two equal five -- in a math class? How do a group of Holocaust survivors recite the "confession of sins" on Yom Kippur -- of the year 1945? From where do you get the conviction, fortitude and strength to defend the lives of your wife, children and people when the whole world insists that you're in the wrong? Is there a way to "move on" and "get ahead" in life without relinquishing the rootedness and permanence that is so important to our spiritual well-being? Can we feed what is special and unique in ourselves and in our loved ones, while also cultivating the awareness that every man and woman is of equal worth in G-d's eyes?

Paradoxes are the stuff of life. And this week -- as we wind down the Sefirah Count that leads to the festival of Shavuot and our annual Receiving of the Torah -- is replete with paradoxes: doing nothing, calculating love, defiant remorse, a just war, a mobile home, and 603,550 equally unique souls. Click and read...

Yanki Tauber