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…of all the people. Imagine if the parshah has told us, tribe by tribe, the number of people in each tribe, and separately, the number of males, 20 and up, who were fit for service. Would that kind of census send a different message to us, a message saying, “everyone counts”, including all the women? The second census, what I’ll call the redemption census, I find a strange one. It requires counting of all the male Levites who were at least a month…
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…of Keter, the place of more Being than any other being. At the next level appear two Sefirot, Hokhma, or Divine wisdom, and Bina, Divine understanding. At the third level appear two more Sefirot, the first two accompanied by earthly correlates: Gedula or Hesed on the right, Gevura or Din on the left. As pointed out by Daniel Matt in his introduction to my Zohar translation, these represent two opposing sides of Divine personality: free-flowing lo…
…d on a full stomach, you’ll throw up.” Everyone knows that laughter is the best medicine, though, come to think of it, Penicillin is probably the best medicine, or Prozac, or Botox. And people say, “That’s funny” when it’s not, and say “That’s not funny” when it is. And people say, “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry” which reminds me of some of our Temple board meetings, our Capital Campaign, the Rabbi singing ‘O Canada’ and the length of this…
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…surprising — she was 65 years old in the first and 90 in the second — but apparently still beautiful. Apparently in those days and places, men would kill a husband in order to take the victim’s beautiful wife for themselves. In fact there are accounts of similar occurrences in Egyptian records and in stories of other ancient peoples. Notes to the first episode in our Etz Hayim humash mention an ancient Egyptian story, “Tale of Two Brothers,” in w…
…ograms. Rides for kids when their parent is unable to drive. An occasional phone call or visit to someone who lives alone or in assisted living. A cooked meals or groceries for someone recuperating from illness or surgery. Of course, we can’t provide regular nursing service or permanent carpooling, but we can extend a helping hand, and we should. How will this work? Well, were just getting started, and there may be some kinks till we work out the…
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…nd clothes and dye and see a naked, shivering run-of-the-mill girl who’s trapped in her mind, trying to get out of a contradiction in itself. Beverly Sills, an opera singer, once said, “A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn’t let them get her down.” I guess that’s why some people identify me as a pessimist and others consider me odd. I can swear and curse and disrespect others, and then I can…
…want to mess with that anger. In the case of Sodom, nothing could really happen to Abraham if God got mad at him for arguing. But if God got angry about arguments over Abraham’s son, God might punish him by taking away someone else close to him. Losing Isaac would be bad enough, but losing his wife or other son, Ishmael, in addition would be even worse. When Abraham did not argue, God would lose credibility if he did not reward his servant for fo…
