ב"ה
The inner person
is deeply aware -- aware of the differences between important things and things
of lesser importance, between means and ends, between journeys and destinations.
But in whatever he is involved, he is fully there. When he's on the way to
something, he's fully invested in being on the way to something. He's not here to get through life,
he's here to live it.
Numbers 30:2--36:13 Torah Reading for Week of July 15-21, 2001 
Fathers, daughters and husbands; vengeance and war spoils; east and west, tribalism, havens for inadvertent murderers, and the forty-two journeys in the journey of life -- plus what it all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today....
Zvi Elimelech's father pulled the boy aside and told him that he must
promise never to tell anyone this story until the very last day of his life.
This story was told to me by a rabbi who heard it from a disciple of the author of the famed chassidic work Bnei Yissaschar, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech of Dinov, who heard it directly from Rabbi Zvi Elimelech on his death bed.
What is stress if not the feeling that life is too much? And what is love if
not a merging with the other, creating a larger body, a more expansive being, an
entity of sufficient resilience to contain and absorb the too much of life?The other thing - the inexplicable thing - is that the love begins to attract the resources necessary to actually deal with the physical problem or problems that cause the stress. Somehow this happens. At least in my life it does, and my gut tells me that it’s a universal experience. (Ooowah, now we’re entering into the world of magic, hey-what?)
As salted surfers of the Web, you are certainly familiar with
conspiracy. You have heard that no man ever landed on the moon -- it was all
filmed in Arizona. Continental drift was initiated in the 50s by the Pentagon to
push Russia off the end of the earth. Prozac was developed by AT&T in an
attempt to mold human personality to UNIX protocol. Bill Gates owns the Vatican
and the Illuminati own Bill Gates.The greatest conspiracy theory of all time is materialism. The idea that some 1080 particles of matter conspire every day to bring us the orderly form of this world before us! Everybody knows that particles can’t agree on anything. The second greatest conspiracy theory is that the Jews invented the Torah. |
 The Parshah in a Nutshell
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