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Noach 5762 - October 19, 2001

The Memory of Water

When your world's strangeness becomes too much to bear, and your battle's loneliness too heavy to carry, you seek solace in your watery past.
Parshah
Noach Home Page
Noah makes an ark, G-d floods the earth, a dove brings an olive branch, Shem and Japeth drag a blan-ket, men build a tower and the first Jew is born.
Story
The Jewish ABC

The boy was confused. "But teacher," he said, "this is the alphabet that you taught us… This is what we have been reading for the last two years!"
The View from Above

A wave of pity swept over me. I was filled with great compassion, for my body, for the life I had wasted, for my loved ones who would remain in this world.
Parenting
Ooh and Ah

"If you want to have a successful life," the father explained, "you must ensure that the 'ooh' sound comes before the 'ah' sound."
A leader must remember at all times and at every moment that he always stands on the threshold between being one of those who bring merit to the public and, G-d forbid, one of those who cause the public to sin - the threshold between the loftiest of heights and the most abysmal depth
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch
Print Magazine

Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.

In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.

These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”

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