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Vaeira 5762 - January 11, 2002
Faith and Reason
The fact that you cannot rationally understand something is no reason not to study it.
The fact that you cannot rationally understand something is no reason not to study it.
Parshah
Va'era Home Page
Blood, frogs, lice, hordes of wild animals, dying herds, boils, hail -- all to get the Jews out of Egypt and Egypt out of the Jews...
Also in Va'eira: the four expressions of redemption, Pharaoh as the ultimate frog, the difference between selfish martyrdom and true self-sacrifice, the meteorology of the soul, and Moses gets an answer (of sorts) from G-d on the ancient question of human suffering
Blood, frogs, lice, hordes of wild animals, dying herds, boils, hail -- all to get the Jews out of Egypt and Egypt out of the Jews...
Also in Va'eira: the four expressions of redemption, Pharaoh as the ultimate frog, the difference between selfish martyrdom and true self-sacrifice, the meteorology of the soul, and Moses gets an answer (of sorts) from G-d on the ancient question of human suffering
As I Sit in Darkness
We land upon foreign, distant shores, pioneers of a self born simply of our soul demanding its expansion.
We land upon foreign, distant shores, pioneers of a self born simply of our soul demanding its expansion.
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Labels Are For Shirts
Our perception of who we are is deeply influenced by the labels that other people attach to us. And when it comes from people who are important to us, these labels stick much longer
Our perception of who we are is deeply influenced by the labels that other people attach to us. And when it comes from people who are important to us, these labels stick much longer
G-d said to Moses: the waters which protected you when you were cast into the River, and the soil which protected you when you buried the Egyptian -- it is not fitting that they should be afflicted by your hand.
— Mishnat Rabbi Eliezer
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Esau said, “I have a lot.”
Jacob said, “I have all.” As in “all I need.”
Esau had a family of six. They were called “six souls.” Plural.
Jacob had a family of seventy. They were called “seventy soul.” Singular.
Esau lived in a granular, tossed-together, fragmented world in which he collected a lot of things ...
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