ב"ה
Tazria-Metzora 5766 - April 28, 2006
The Meaning of Making Money
If life is full of meaning, why am I spending it hustling other people for their money?
If life is full of meaning, why am I spending it hustling other people for their money?
Parshah
Tazria-Metzora in a Nutshell
The dynamics of birth and the covenant of circumcision, the power of speech and the plague of whiteness, contaminating blood and purifying pools of water.
The dynamics of birth and the covenant of circumcision, the power of speech and the plague of whiteness, contaminating blood and purifying pools of water.
Story
The Ruin in the Forest
Following the Baal Shem Tov’s directions, Rabbi Chaim led Moshe Meshel and the coach driver to a clearing among the trees that seemed to be a ruin of some sort, with the remnants of a number of buildings . . .
Following the Baal Shem Tov’s directions, Rabbi Chaim led Moshe Meshel and the coach driver to a clearing among the trees that seemed to be a ruin of some sort, with the remnants of a number of buildings . . .
Living
Can People Change?
G-d creates from "Nothing" because nothingness, ayin, actually means absolute, infinite possibility. And as a beings created in the image of G-d, we, too, can create "something from nothing"
G-d creates from "Nothing" because nothingness, ayin, actually means absolute, infinite possibility. And as a beings created in the image of G-d, we, too, can create "something from nothing"
What is a Shalom Zachar?
What consolation can we offer the soul? What can we answer to its cry: Why did I have to come down here?!
What consolation can we offer the soul? What can we answer to its cry: Why did I have to come down here?!
A Land Beyond Toys
Even if this life was here the whole time, if I just noticed it, then it is new...
Even if this life was here the whole time, if I just noticed it, then it is new...
Women
The Role of Women in Judaism
I wanted to celebrate the differences inherent in the sexes, rather than diminish them. To unravel the mysteries of what it meant to be a woman . . . what it meant to be a Jewish woman . . .
I wanted to celebrate the differences inherent in the sexes, rather than diminish them. To unravel the mysteries of what it meant to be a woman . . . what it meant to be a Jewish woman . . .
Rabbi Tarfon would say: The day is short, the work is much, the workers are lazy, the reward is great, and the Master is pressing... He would also say: It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it...
— Ethics of the Fathers 2:15-16
Print Magazine
Blind faith cannot grasp Truth, because it does not grasp anything at all.
Intellect cannot grasp Truth, because intellect is finite and Truth is infinite.
Only the eye of the soul, its inner wisdom, can grasp Truth and know it as she knows her own self.
For she is Truth.
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