Monthly Archives: February 2012
Practicing Stillness
On the other side of ecstasy lies a painful emptiness. On the other side of bitterness lies joy. Where one goes, the other must follow. In the ecstasy of understanding lies the gnawing pain of a new frontier of ignorance. … Continue reading
The Goyishe King
Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy! For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. … Continue reading
Learning Acceptance
Yeshua’s sacrifice is continually before the Father. He is the lamb continually on the altar before the throne. He is the “the Lamb of God” whose atoning sacrifice for sin is continually before the Father. Thus the writer of Hebrews … Continue reading
Waiting in a Minefield
The words and the stories of Torah are but its clothing; the guidance within them is its body. And, as with a body, within that guidance breathes a soul that gives life to whoever follows it. And within that soul … Continue reading
Knocking On Heaven’s Door
One of the hardest chinuch matters to deal with is what to do when faced with a student who is in a decline, whose presence in the yeshiva can be harmful to the other bochurim. Sometimes, the only option a rosh … Continue reading
Falling and Rising
Rabbi Noah Weinberg was visiting the United States of America. He spent one Shabbat in a small New Jersey community. The people were friendly, and because of the small size of the congregation for Rabbi mingled freely with all the … Continue reading
Why Am I Alone?
embedded by Embedded Video I can’t get this woman out of my head. I’ve seen this video embedded at a lot of different online venues yesterday, but I was busy and didn’t take the time to actually view it until … Continue reading
Terumah: Waiting for God On Earth
When dedicating the Beis HaMikdash, King Shlomo exclaimed in wonderment: “Will G-d indeed dwell on this earth? The heavens and the celestial heights cannot contain You, how much less this house!” For the Beis HaMikdash was not merely a centralized … Continue reading
Shopping for a Christian Church
Likewise, Gentile Christians are in brotherhood with Jewish Christians, reckoned as spiritually circumcised in heart (Rom 2:26) and thus joined to Abraham through faith (Gal 3:29). Here then is racial diversity within spiritual unity, in the same way as a … Continue reading
The Man Without a Face
The source of all illness is the lovesickness of the soul. She yearns to return to her Beloved Above, and so is repulsed by the human form, her prison of pain. Two things, then, must be repaired, and body and … Continue reading
