For Gimmel Tamuz: Three Stories About the Lubavitcher Rebbe
In honor of Gimmel Tamuz this Shabbat, let us contemplate three short stories about the Rebbe from three different periods. Silent for One and Speaking...
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If You Can't See It It's Not There?
An important Talmudic rule says, "'We didn't see it' is no proof [that it doesn't exist or that it didn't happen]". In Hebrew, "sight" (רְאִיָה)...
It's Harder to See the Good in a Bad Person than to See the Bad in a Good Person
"Good in bad" (טוב ברע) = "bad in good" (רע בטוב) equals 289 = "good" (טוב ,17) squared. The phrases "good in bad" (טוב ברע) and...
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...
Seeing Inside
In Hebrew, the idiom "to see someone's face" can mean either to appease him or to fight him. After winning the wrestling bout with Esau's...
Perfect Vision
Each month of the year is associated with a sense. The sense of the month of Tamuz is sight. The month of Tamuz is the...
