Re’eh: Paths of Divine Service: From Lithuania to Breslov
In Parashat Re’eh, the Torah restates that there are only a limited number of kosher cattle, “This is the cattle that you may eat, ox, sheep,...
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Uniting the Four Elements in the Soul
The two elements of fire and water unite in the Temple. The two elements of air and earth unite in the Land of Israel. In...
Keen Eyesight Isn't Necessarily Good Eyesight
The Torah lists by name the non-kosher birds. One of them is the ra'ah, literally "the seer." The sages explain: It stands in Babylonia and sees...
The First Ten Questions
Questions come from doubt. Doubt comes from sin. Sin comes from illusion. The Torah was given to save us from false illusions. Illusion is in...
Mitzvah: Close to God
The sign of having done a good deed is feeling close to God. Feeling far, estranged from God is the sign of having done something...
Reflection without Mirror
The pit was empty, no water, but full of snakes and scorpions. The pit is the mind, water – Torah, snakes and scorpions – bad...
Snake Spine
In the Torah there are many applications to the "law of similars." One of them is that in order to kill a snake you must...
Holy Worms
The opening phrase of the Torah, "In the beginning God created…" (1202) = "worms" (תולעים) and "doubts" (ספקות). There are good worms and bad worms....
The Worm of Scepticism
Elisha Acher came out of paradise a heretic. What went wrong? A worm had been eating away at him all the time. The worm's name:...
Miscellaneous Tweets, Part 1
There are many worlds. In the highest spiritual World of Emanation there is no consciousness other than that of God. * The Bible speaks of...
