| Korach 5761 - June 22, 2001 |
The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Darkness, no matter how ominous and intimidating, is merely the absence of
light. Light need not combat and overpower darkness in order to displace it --
where light is, darkness is not. A thimbleful of light will therefore banish a
roomful of darkness.
No matter how dark the world may seem or feel, light is just a single action
away.
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Korach
Numbers 16:1-18:32
Torah Reading for Week of June 16-23, 2001
In this week's Parshah, we encounter many faces of Korach: Korach the rebel, Korach the comedian, Korach the charlatan, Korach the materialist, Korach the spiritualist, Korach the democrat, and Korach the Torah
section -- what they all mean, and what they mean to us.
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You
And suddenly, one night, don’t ask me how or why, the point widened.
Suddenly You were everywhere, too many places for me to reach at once, for me to
contain. Suddenly I was the point of the cone and You the wide space whose width
had no end.
Or so it seemed, or so it dreamed.
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The Girl Who Had To Be Jewish
The rabbi listened to the girl’s story. She lived in Balaclava, and
from her youth had felt a strong attraction to Judaism. Whenever she heard
stories of the Holocaust, she was deeply touched. She had been reading and
studying about Judaism for a long time, and now wanted to convert.
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Convergence
We live on shifting sands where all the signposts point in a disparate array. We are surrounded by so much "stuff" -- ideas, trends, inventions, auto-proliferating information.
The past hundred years, even more so the past fifty, and most of all the past
ten, have created a burning need for people who can provide points of convergence.
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Planet of the Apes
She scrutinized me for a few moments and suddenly her face lit up with the
wonder of discovery. Her eyes grew wide and she exclaimed, "Oh my gosh!
there are two of you!"
There are indeed two of me. What my flustered friend probably doesn't
realize, however, is that there are also two of her.
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