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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."
"And these are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham; Abraham fathered Isaac" (Genesis 25:19). There are children who are embarrassed of their parents, and there are parents who are embarrassed by their children. With Abraham and Isaac it wasn't like that: Isaac prided himself in that he was "Isaac the son of Abraham," and Abraham prided himself in that "Abraham fathered Isaac"
— Midrash Tanchuma
Print Magazine
The world is a place of constant change and unrest.
Each point in time is distinct from the point before and the point after.
Each point in space is its own world, with its own conditions and state of being.
It is a world of fragments, a perpetual rush of traffic and noise.
Look at your own life: You do so ...
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