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Simchat Torah - Bereishit 5762 October 8, 2001
The Power of I
As the Torah tells it, G-d spent six days making a universe, creating physicality and spirituality, time and space, matter and energy, water and earth, stars and trees and animals -- and then created a single human being and said to him: "All this is to serve you."
As the Torah tells it, G-d spent six days making a universe, creating physicality and spirituality, time and space, matter and energy, water and earth, stars and trees and animals -- and then created a single human being and said to him: "All this is to serve you."
Parshah
V’Zot HaBerachah Home Page
Moses' blessings to the twelve tribes of Israel, visions and awesome things, daughters of winter and dancing scrolls -- as we conclude the annual Torah reading cycle and immediately begin anew
Moses' blessings to the twelve tribes of Israel, visions and awesome things, daughters of winter and dancing scrolls -- as we conclude the annual Torah reading cycle and immediately begin anew
Bereshit Home Page
The creation of darkness and light, the sundering of matter from spirit, the first human, the first sleep, the first marriage, the first sin, the first suit of clothes, the first childbirth, the first war . . . If it's going to happen in the story of man, there’s a precedent in the first Parshah of the book of Genesis.
The creation of darkness and light, the sundering of matter from spirit, the first human, the first sleep, the first marriage, the first sin, the first suit of clothes, the first childbirth, the first war . . . If it's going to happen in the story of man, there’s a precedent in the first Parshah of the book of Genesis.
Tohu Wars
Jay Schwartz spends his days creating worlds and their creatures in cyberspace, searching for meaning within them.
Jay Schwartz spends his days creating worlds and their creatures in cyberspace, searching for meaning within them.
Parenting
If It's to Be It's Up to Me
Being direct descendents from Adam and Eve, some of us may have inherited this tendency to look for others upon whom we can place the blame.
Being direct descendents from Adam and Eve, some of us may have inherited this tendency to look for others upon whom we can place the blame.
Story
The Tightrope
Reb Mendel couldn't imagine why a person would waste his time walking on a rope and risk falling on his head, when he could just walk on the ground like everyone else.
Reb Mendel couldn't imagine why a person would waste his time walking on a rope and risk falling on his head, when he could just walk on the ground like everyone else.
On Simchat Torah, the Torah wants to dance, but lacking the physical limbs with which to do so, it employs the body of the Jew. On this day, the Jew becomes the dancing feet of the Torah.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Print Magazine
It’s G-d’s world. Everything He gives is good, the sweetest good.
But it is often a good far too great for us to understand. We imagine it is not good, because that’s the only way to make sense of it with our small minds.
Yet the truth is, He gives us all the good we can handle. If we could take more, He would g...
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