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Mikeitz 5762 - December 14, 2001
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Joseph interprets a couple of royal dreams, goes from the dungeon to the throne, puts his ten brothers through the wringer, does some magic tricks with a silver goblet, and takes Benjamin hostage -- but it's all part of a vast eternal plan
Joseph interprets a couple of royal dreams, goes from the dungeon to the throne, puts his ten brothers through the wringer, does some magic tricks with a silver goblet, and takes Benjamin hostage -- but it's all part of a vast eternal plan
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The Fifth Night
"It's Chanukah, the festival of miracles!" cried Nachman. "We'll do the mitzvah the way it should be done. Not in some rusty can fished out from the garbage..."
"It's Chanukah, the festival of miracles!" cried Nachman. "We'll do the mitzvah the way it should be done. Not in some rusty can fished out from the garbage..."
More Chanukah Readings
An eight-part journey into the soul of Chanukah… Tzvi Freeman's Menorah Files… Chanukah Stories…
An eight-part journey into the soul of Chanukah… Tzvi Freeman's Menorah Files… Chanukah Stories…
I Am a Soul
Like a child neglected I crouch in a large and darkened room illuminated by a single shaft of piercing light where you can find me, longing.
Like a child neglected I crouch in a large and darkened room illuminated by a single shaft of piercing light where you can find me, longing.
Every affliction to befall man has a set time to end; as it is written (Job 28:3), "An end He set to darkness, and every limit He investigates."
— Midrash Tanchuma
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Afterlife is a very rational, natural consequence of the order of things.
After all, nothing is ever lost—even the body only transforms into earth. But nothing is lost.
So too, the person you are is never lost. That person—that soul—only returns to its origin.
If your soul became acutely attached to the material worl...
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