Why do we talk so much? Witness the endless self-explaining we engage in, the perpetual conversation we feel obliged to "make", the quadrillions of words unleashed each day in every imaginable media. Why this insatiable need to put everything into words, as if nothing truly exists until it is trimmed and stretched to fit a set of humanly emitted sounds? Perhaps the Torah reading of Devarim ("Words") holds a clue.
On whose initiative were the Spies sent? The way the story is told in Numbers 13, it was by Divine command. But when Moses recounts these events 40 years later, he tells the people of Israe it was their idea. Tthe contradiction descibes a watershed in the history of Freedom of Choice
On the Shabbat before the Ninth of Av we are granted a vision of the Third Temple. But what is the point of this vision, if we do not experience it consciously? And what exactly is it that we see?
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