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Life on the Inside

By Chana Weisberg

Topics: Lesson from Everything

What color are apples? Your response may just reflect your approach to life...

What color are apples?

Careful! Your response may just reflect your approach to life...

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	Chana Weisberg is a writer, editor and lecturer. She authored several books, including her latest, Tending the Garden: The Unique Gifts of the Jewish Woman. She has served as the dean of several women’s educational institutes, and lectures internationally on issues relating to women, faith, relationships and the Jewish soul.

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Posted: Feb 5, 2010

what box ?

It has become cliche to use the term thinking outside the box. This youngster has gone one better. By that i mean " what box ? thinking. The great imaginative or intellectual types or even street smart thinkers have no box. Outside the box thinkers are great, but they are not at the level of a " what box ? thinker ".
Just an i observation.

Posted By Anonymous, wc

Posted: Feb 5, 2010

The Apple is White

I see a good future for that young boy; he's learning to "think outside the box". Most great contributors to society had and have that quality. Good luck to him because throughout history, many great scientists ran into mucho trouble with authorities when thinking outside the box, the great Galileo, born in Italy in 1564, being a classic example.

Posted By Harold Braunstein, Brooklyn, NY
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Posted: Jan 6, 2010

excellent !

The apple also serves as the four levels of Torah/Pardes : Skin/pshat, pulp/remez, core/drush and seeds/sod.

It also serves as a metaphor of the four worlds:
Skin /asiyah, pulp/yetzirah, core / beriah, and seeds Atzilut. You could go one step further to inside the seed/keter.

i made these up for a brief lesson on my mother's Yahrzeit. One usually uses the onion metaphor. It's pretty good since it alludes to the myriad levels, layers within layers. The apple one keeps it a bit more simplified/organized for me. I do appreciate that there are myriad leevls to the apple metaphor as well.
Just a thought.
Great subject about seeing within. Mazel tov !

Posted By Anonymous, WC

Posted: Jan 5, 2010

How nourishing and beautiful!
Thank you.

Posted By Molly Resnick, NY, Ny

Posted: Jan 5, 2010

I will never look at apples the same way!!

wonderful message...

Posted By Jewgirl, Israel

Posted: Jan 4, 2010

wonderful, a blessing to am Israel.
keep up the good work,

Posted By Chana Gitel Ghanooni, Passaic, NJ
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