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Tazria-Metzora 5764 - April 23, 2004
My Friend, My Teacher
"A relationship with G-d." "Connection with G-d." How many times in the last fifteen years have I written those words! But what do they mean? What do they really mean?
"A relationship with G-d." "Connection with G-d." How many times in the last fifteen years have I written those words! But what do they mean? What do they really mean?
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.
Eleventh Hour
Engulfed in aches, submerged in inertia, I've forgotten who I was. I see myself as a huge lump on a couch. Incapable of much else, I begin to think...
Engulfed in aches, submerged in inertia, I've forgotten who I was. I see myself as a huge lump on a couch. Incapable of much else, I begin to think...
Words of Song
No, I don’t mean words that are sung. I mean the words that music speaks: the nuances and motifs of a melody that take the defined boundaries in which we have boxed ourselves, our feelings and our ideas, and transport them to a higher place.
No, I don’t mean words that are sung. I mean the words that music speaks: the nuances and motifs of a melody that take the defined boundaries in which we have boxed ourselves, our feelings and our ideas, and transport them to a higher place.
Story
A Bundle of Greens
One day, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov arrived in Tarnow. This was before the chassidic master had revealed himself to the world, and he appeared as a simple itinerant, but with a gift for telling stories . . .
One day, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov arrived in Tarnow. This was before the chassidic master had revealed himself to the world, and he appeared as a simple itinerant, but with a gift for telling stories . . .
Ethics of the Fathers: Chapter Two
Rabbi [Judah HaNassi] would say: Which is the right path for man to choose for himself? Whatever is harmonious for the one who does it, and harmonious for mankind...
Rabbi [Judah HaNassi] would say: Which is the right path for man to choose for himself? Whatever is harmonious for the one who does it, and harmonious for mankind...
The world says: If you can't go under [an obstacle], leap over; I say: In the first place, go over! (lechatchilah ariber)
— Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch (1834-1882)
Print Magazine
Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.
In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.
These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”
Here’...
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