Bechukotai
We may walk down the beaten path or we may walk up the never-beaten path. The choice is ours.
Every day is a crossroads: When we walk with the Divine, the destinations are beautiful and prosperous. The opposite is also true, a tangle of thorns and rebukes, lost in a foreign land. That is no ultimate destination, but rather a detour – albeit a very painful one – through the harshness of material cynicism. There is an eternal bond and no off-road outback can break that. When we commit our resources and our selves to the Divine dream, pledging to reclaim the path and finance it if necessary, then is there really any other path than one that come to us naturally?
Destroying the World
Drawing on the wisdom of the Oral Torah and the Zohar, the ten utterances which created the world and the perfection of the number ten are expounded.
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Behar-Bechukotei: Jerusalem 2009
Take the “scoundrel” by its throat and strangle it. Not with your hands or with violence, but with light. Strangle darkness with light. Asphyxiate pain with joy.
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Bechukotei: LSD Part 2
Last week’s article, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, elicited quite a number of responses, most positive, some critical, many of them posted online in the comments section on the article.
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The Kabbala of Curses
The 49 curses listed in the Torah portion of Bechukosei evokes an interesting question: what possible benefit can be found in these curses?
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Behar Bechukotai: Global Dimming
Present day conflict has a direct source in biblical schisms of our forefathers, and in the ongoing war between the spiritual and the material.
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