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“Would that I could soar to the sphere of the heaven.” This phrase is usually understood to be based on: “Behold, like an eagle the enemy – Babylon – will swoop down and spread its wings against Moab.” (Jeremiah 48:40) Moab, an ancient enemy of Israel, was confident that, because there were no indications that the Babylonians were planning to attack them, rejoiced at the vulnerability of Jerusalem.
Posted: 2011-08-10
Category: Spirituality
“And those who bring the people to do the right thing shall be as the stars, eternal (Daniel 12:3).” The Midrash comments: Just as one sees the light of the stars from one end of the world to the other, so, too, one sees the light of Good People from one end of the world to the other.
Posted: 2011-07-27
Category: Spirituality
“1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a horn, and declare to My people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways; as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their Lord, they ask of Me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near to the Lord.
Posted: 2011-07-20
Category: Religion
Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics is a psychologist, not an economist. He was lecturing to a group of Israeli air force flight instructors on the conventional wisdom of behavior modification and its application to the psychology of flight training. Kahenman drove home the point that rewarding positive behavior works but punishing mistakes does not. One of his students interrupted, voicing an opinion that would lead Kahenman to an epiphany and guide his research for decades.
Posted: 2011-06-22
Category: Self Improvement
Is anything touchier in Judaism than the issue of authority? Orthodoxy, which once lived off a dynamic mix of communal and family traditions, rabbinic debates, and spontaneously emerging practices, has in the last century hardened its stance, subordinating all of life to the dictates of “rabbinic authorities.
Posted: 2011-06-15
Category: Spirituality
Almost forty percent of the cases in the Central African Republic’s court system are witchcraft prosecutions. Most of the accused are Pygmies who are known for bewitching each other. Do you have an infected toe? You can accuse your neighbor of hexing you because he doesn’t like you
Posted: 2011-06-10
Category: Religion
We picture ourselves standing in the redeemed Jerusalem, filled with joy and gratitude, shocked that we survived for so long, challenged to rise higher than ever before, as described by Zechariah. We who have experienced the miracle of the reunification of Jerusalem and can observe as it expands wider and higher, have experienced the beginning of the fulfillment of Zechariah’s prophecy::
Posted: 2011-06-01
Category: Spirituality
Rabbi Chiya had a friend in Ashna are who made a party for him and regaled him with all the finest dishes imaginable, all that was created in the six days of creation. He said to him: “What can your God do for you more than this?”
Posted: 2011-03-04
Category: Spirituality
The word “Hu” is found five times in a bad sense and five times in a good sense. The five times in a bad sense are: “He, Nimrod, was a mighty hunter before the Lord.” Genesss 10:9; “This is Esau the father of the Edomites.” 36:43; “These are that Dathan and Abiram.” Numbers 26:9; “This same king Achaz.” Chronicles II 28:22; and, “this is Achashveirosh.”
Posted: 2011-02-24
Category: Self Improvement
I receive complimentary issues of all sorts of magazines every week and I usually end up feeling as if I live on a different planet. Are there really enough people who buy a $200,000 watch to merit an advertisement? What about $2,000 pants? Private jets? Who are the people who stay in hotels that advertise rates of $2,500 a night? They live on a different planet.
Posted: 2011-02-17
Category: Self Improvement
The further backward you will look the further forward you will see.” Winston Churchill Helenus, in the Iliad, was a difference kind of Seer. the son of Priam and Hecuba, he was the cleverest men in the Trojan army. It was he who, under torture, told the Achaeans how they would capture Troy – apparently he didn’t predict that he himself would be captured.
Posted: 2011-02-09
Category: Self Improvement
Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain.
Posted: 2011-02-02
Category: Spirituality
In physical terms we inhabit space, but in emotional terms we are inhabited by memory. A memory composed of a space and a time, a memory inside which we live.
Posted: 2011-01-27
Category: Spirituality
I received the following article and do not know who wrote it, but it’s worthwhile. I’m using it to prepare to listen to the sound of the Shofar: It’s high summer and we’re all out there seeing each other. We’re not hidden away in our homes and offices as we are in winter’s cold. We’re part of a crowd—on the street, in the park, on the boardwalk, on the top deck of the ferry to Saltaire.
Posted: 2010-08-25
Category: Spirituality
A marathon man appears in this week’s portion: Shofetim. (Deuteronomy 17:11) He is a great scholar and is absolutely committed to truth. When a local court rules against him, he ‘grasps the rudder hard, still bent on his port”. He is summoned to a higher court, out argues them on every issue, and is incensed when they too rule against his opinion. He courageously takes a public stand. He knows that he is right.
Posted: 2010-08-16
Category: Spirituality
