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Shavuot 5766 - June 1, 2006

The Torah Is...

The Torah is a guidebook. A contract. Identity. Vision. A daughter. And a wife...
Hidden Fruit

As I mouth the words, I feel every fiber of my being rebelling. He has not made His world lacking? Not lacking in anything?
Tanagers

They seem just as human as the others. They bleed when cut, and the blood is always red. A gentile could eat cholent and a Jew could own a baseball team. Are they one species or two?
Story
Elijah the Prophet in Minsk

A chassid went to the Baal Shem Tov in Mezhibuzh. “Rebbe,” he said, “I want to see Elijah the Prophet . . .”
Ten for the Price of One

The Parshah Report this week has been preempted by an infomercial. Get your credit card ready.
Parshah
Shavuot Torah Readings in a Nutshell
Who are the Jews, what it means to be "chosen", the revelation at Sinai, the Ten Commandments, and the three pilgrimage festivals
The Torah: an Anthology

40 essays, stories, meditations and readings, each offering a glimpse into something the Torah says about itself and its place in our lives
Blessed are You, G‑d . . . Who has chosen us from all the nations, and gaves us His Torah. Blessed are You, G‑d, who gives the Torah.
— Daily “Blessing on the Torah”
Print Magazine

The world is a place of constant change and unrest.

Each point in time is distinct from the point before and the point after.

Each point in space is its own world, with its own conditions and state of being.

It is a world of fragments, a perpetual rush of traffic and noise.

Look at your own life: You do so ...

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