Life on the Inside

By Chana Weisberg

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Life on the Inside

What color are apples? Your response may just reflect your approach to life...

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What color are apples?

Careful! Your response may just reflect your approach to life...

By Chana Weisberg

Chana Weisberg is the editor of TheJewishWoman.org. She lectures internationally on issues relating to women, relationships, meaning, self-esteem and the Jewish soul. She is the author of six books. Her latest book, Shabbat Delights, is a two-volume series on the weekly Torah portion.

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Anonymous aventura July 17, 2013

color of the apple Any good teacher would never have said NO it is not white!! It is the inside. Like brown eggs and white eggs Reply

Shelby Melbourne Australia March 17, 2013

Seeing Red. I found this topic very interesting, my favourite colour is red, however after the above video, I questioned why. Is red a colour we should avoid? Reply

Anonymous wc February 5, 2010

what box ? It has become cliche to use the term thinking outside the box. This youngster has gone one better. By that i mean " what box ? thinking. The great imaginative or intellectual types or even street smart thinkers have no box. Outside the box thinkers are great, but they are not at the level of a " what box ? thinker ".
Just an i observation. Reply

Harold Braunstein Brooklyn, NY via chabadmanhattanbeach.com February 5, 2010

The Apple is White I see a good future for that young boy; he's learning to "think outside the box". Most great contributors to society had and have that quality. Good luck to him because throughout history, many great scientists ran into mucho trouble with authorities when thinking outside the box, the great Galileo, born in Italy in 1564, being a classic example. Reply

Anonymous WC January 6, 2010

excellent ! The apple also serves as the four levels of Torah/Pardes : Skin/pshat, pulp/remez, core/drush and seeds/sod.

It also serves as a metaphor of the four worlds:
Skin /asiyah, pulp/yetzirah, core / beriah, and seeds Atzilut. You could go one step further to inside the seed/keter.

i made these up for a brief lesson on my mother's Yahrzeit. One usually uses the onion metaphor. It's pretty good since it alludes to the myriad levels, layers within layers. The apple one keeps it a bit more simplified/organized for me. I do appreciate that there are myriad leevls to the apple metaphor as well.
Just a thought.
Great subject about seeing within. Mazel tov ! Reply

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