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Noach 5762 - October 19, 2001
The Memory of Water
When your world's strangeness becomes too much to bear, and your battle's loneliness too heavy to carry, you seek solace in your watery past.
When your world's strangeness becomes too much to bear, and your battle's loneliness too heavy to carry, you seek solace in your watery past.
Parshah
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Noah makes an ark, G-d floods the earth, a dove brings an olive branch, Shem and Japeth drag a blan-ket, men build a tower and the first Jew is born.
Noah makes an ark, G-d floods the earth, a dove brings an olive branch, Shem and Japeth drag a blan-ket, men build a tower and the first Jew is born.
Story
The Jewish ABC
The boy was confused. "But teacher," he said, "this is the alphabet that you taught us… This is what we have been reading for the last two years!"
The boy was confused. "But teacher," he said, "this is the alphabet that you taught us… This is what we have been reading for the last two years!"
The View from Above
A wave of pity swept over me. I was filled with great compassion, for my body, for the life I had wasted, for my loved ones who would remain in this world.
A wave of pity swept over me. I was filled with great compassion, for my body, for the life I had wasted, for my loved ones who would remain in this world.
Parenting
Ooh and Ah
"If you want to have a successful life," the father explained, "you must ensure that the 'ooh' sound comes before the 'ah' sound."
"If you want to have a successful life," the father explained, "you must ensure that the 'ooh' sound comes before the 'ah' sound."
This is why the Torah is likened to water: just as water descends from a high place to a low place, so does the Torah descend from its place of glory, which is the will and wisdom of G-d, {where) the Torah and the holy One, Blessed Be He are one and no mind can grasp Him at all; and from there it journeys and descends through hidden stages, level after level, until it becomes enclothed in material things and matters of this world, which is [the subject] of virtually all the Torah's commandments.
— Tanya, chapter 4
Print Magazine
You don't learn by having faith. You learn by questioning, by challenging, by re-examining everything you've ever believed.
And yet, all this is a matter of faith
—the faith that there is a truth to be found.
It is another paradox: To truly question, you must truly have faith.
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