“‘Where is the dwelling of G*d?’ This is the question with which the Rabbi of Kotzk surprised a number of learned scholars who happened to be visiting him. They laughed at him: ‘What a thing to ask! Is not the whole world full of G*d’s glory?’ Then he answered his own question: ‘G*d dwells whereverContinue reading “Shabbat VaYakhel-Pekudey:”
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Shabbat Nakhamu: Consolation?
This Shabbat, called Nakhamu after the first word of the Haftarah, meant to be a Shabbat of consolation. The first Shabbat after Tisha B’Av, that time of terrible destruction once long ago and now a time to face the equally terrifying consequences of our actions in our own days, is meant to reassure us that, afterContinue reading “Shabbat Nakhamu: Consolation?”
Shabbat Nakhamu: let hatred give way to kindness
This Shabbat bears two names, one for the parashat hashavua, the “parsha of the week”, and one which reflects the fact that we have just passed Tisha B’Av, the “9th of Av”, the day on which we reach our lowest, saddest point as a people and a nation. On Tisha B’Av the Jerusalem Temple wasContinue reading “Shabbat Nakhamu: let hatred give way to kindness”
Torah for the 21st Century by Rabbi Ariel Stone 