ב"ה
Ki-Tisa 5764 - March 12, 2004
The Best Kept Secret in the World
Strip life of its false starts, of its missed opportunities, naive presumptions, fumbling first attempts and learned-it-the hard-way experiences, and what's left? Nothing worth writing home about, let alone going through all that trouble to live a life...
Strip life of its false starts, of its missed opportunities, naive presumptions, fumbling first attempts and learned-it-the hard-way experiences, and what's left? Nothing worth writing home about, let alone going through all that trouble to live a life...
Parshah
Ki Tisa in a Nutshell
The Jews are counted, instructions are given for the remaining holy vessels, and two architects are chosen to direct the Tabernacle’s construction. When Moses doesn’t return on time, the people create and worship a golden calf. Moses breaks the two tablets, returns to heaven, and descends with two new tablets.
The Jews are counted, instructions are given for the remaining holy vessels, and two architects are chosen to direct the Tabernacle’s construction. When Moses doesn’t return on time, the people create and worship a golden calf. Moses breaks the two tablets, returns to heaven, and descends with two new tablets.
Priorities
It is a journey into memories of days lost or at least misplaced. Sometimes it takes every ounce of courage I have to not turn them away, to allow them to wrench my gut and heart with shame and regret and pass through my body like a wave of fire...
It is a journey into memories of days lost or at least misplaced. Sometimes it takes every ounce of courage I have to not turn them away, to allow them to wrench my gut and heart with shame and regret and pass through my body like a wave of fire...
Where is Life's “Undo” Function?
I've said it many times and let me repeat: The Master of the Universe not only talks to Himself, He talks to figments of His holy imagination. Not only that, those figments of His holy imagination talk back to Him. And He listens...
I've said it many times and let me repeat: The Master of the Universe not only talks to Himself, He talks to figments of His holy imagination. Not only that, those figments of His holy imagination talk back to Him. And He listens...
Story
Two Bagels
The commander of the Bavarian troops stepped forward, fell to one knee before the Emperor and said: "I ask for autonomy for Bavaria!" "Liberty it shall be!" shouted Bonaparte
The commander of the Bavarian troops stepped forward, fell to one knee before the Emperor and said: "I ask for autonomy for Bavaria!" "Liberty it shall be!" shouted Bonaparte
One who engages in illusions of grandeur is fooling no one but himself; so what's the big deal of fooling a fool?
— Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch (1834-1882)
Print Magazine
It’s G-d’s world. Everything He gives is good, the sweetest good.
But it is often a good far too great for us to understand. We imagine it is not good, because that’s the only way to make sense of it with our small minds.
Yet the truth is, He gives us all the good we can handle. If we could take more, He would g...
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