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Matot-Massei 5763 - July 25, 2003

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The Survivors

"Six thousand people applied to appear on the show, and not a single one was Jewish!" She asked me to help her understand this phenomenon. "After all" she noted, "wasn't it the Jews who survived the Holocaust?"
Parshah
Matot-Masei in a Nutshell
Vengeance and war spoils, east and west of the Jordan, tribalism, havens for inadvertent murderers, the daughters of Tzelafchad and forty-two journeys.
Story
The Shattered Goblet

“I shall go to the Wall and sound the shofar, so that all the supernal worlds will tremble. I am also bringing the kiddush cup which belonged to the Seer of Lublin. I will refuse to move from that spot until Moshiach comes . . .”
Living
Escape

Finally I had no pressures, no anxiety, no chores or responsibilities, no phone calls or people pulling me in every which direction. So why was my mind blank?
The Mystical Significance of the Mezuzah

The mezuzah is an arrow, fixed upon the doorpost in the three dimensions of space, time and soul, pointing from the "domain of the many" to the "domain of the one"
The world stands on three things: Torah, the service of G-d, and deeds of kindness
— Ethics of the Fathers 1:2
Print Magazine

Looking at your world from Above, all is good.

Looking at your world from within, things don’t always look so nice.

Until you connect your world below to the world above. Then the goodness flows downward without distortion.

How do you make that connection? By clinging tightly above.

By putting all your trust in G‑d.

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