ב"ה
Simchat Torah - Bereishit 5762 October 8, 2001
The Power of I
As the Torah tells it, G-d spent six days making a universe, creating physicality and spirituality, time and space, matter and energy, water and earth, stars and trees and animals -- and then created a single human being and said to him: "All this is to serve you."
As the Torah tells it, G-d spent six days making a universe, creating physicality and spirituality, time and space, matter and energy, water and earth, stars and trees and animals -- and then created a single human being and said to him: "All this is to serve you."
Parshah
V’Zot HaBerachah Home Page
Moses' blessings to the twelve tribes of Israel, visions and awesome things, daughters of winter and dancing scrolls -- as we conclude the annual Torah reading cycle and immediately begin anew
Moses' blessings to the twelve tribes of Israel, visions and awesome things, daughters of winter and dancing scrolls -- as we conclude the annual Torah reading cycle and immediately begin anew
Bereshit Home Page
The creation of darkness and light, the sundering of matter from spirit, the first human, the first sleep, the first marriage, the first sin, the first suit of clothes, the first childbirth, the first war . . . If it's going to happen in the story of man, there’s a precedent in the first Parshah of the book of Genesis.
The creation of darkness and light, the sundering of matter from spirit, the first human, the first sleep, the first marriage, the first sin, the first suit of clothes, the first childbirth, the first war . . . If it's going to happen in the story of man, there’s a precedent in the first Parshah of the book of Genesis.
Tohu Wars
Jay Schwartz spends his days creating worlds and their creatures in cyberspace, searching for meaning within them.
Jay Schwartz spends his days creating worlds and their creatures in cyberspace, searching for meaning within them.
Parenting
If It's to Be It's Up to Me
Being direct descendents from Adam and Eve, some of us may have inherited this tendency to look for others upon whom we can place the blame.
Being direct descendents from Adam and Eve, some of us may have inherited this tendency to look for others upon whom we can place the blame.
Story
The Tightrope
Reb Mendel couldn't imagine why a person would waste his time walking on a rope and risk falling on his head, when he could just walk on the ground like everyone else.
Reb Mendel couldn't imagine why a person would waste his time walking on a rope and risk falling on his head, when he could just walk on the ground like everyone else.
Every man is obligated to say: For my sake the world was created.
— Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a
Print Magazine
To one whose self is his body, death of the body is death of the self. But for one whose self is his love, awe and faith, there is no death, only a passing. From a state of confinement in the body, he makes the passage to liberation. He continues to work within this world, and even more so than before.
The Talmud says th...
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