| Bo 5761 - February 2, 2001 |
Love According to the Rebbe
What if someone said to you, "I love you, but I don't like your
children"? You'd probably say: "You don't know anything about who and
what I am, and you don't know what love is, either!"
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Exodus 10:1-13:16
Torah Reading for Week of January 28 - February 3, 2001
The innermost chamber in Pharaoh's palace, the midnight death of Egypt's
firstborn, the Passover Offering, the Exodus, unleavened bread--and what it
all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today.
The Parshah in a Nutshell
Full Parshah summary with commentary
More on the Parshah from the Chassidic Masters
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Windows
Of course, you could always paint pictures on the walls. Perhaps even
illuminate them from behind. Or use mirrors, even a battery of television
screens. You would imagine that you see beyond while staring at your renditions
of what is within.
And so we need our precious mothers and other pure souls of simple faith to
tell us, “Don’t be a fool. There are windows, and you can tell them easily
from paintings on the wall.”
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Miracles and Wonders
Let theologians quibble; let the cynics snicker. These are days of miracles and wonders. I will forever attribute the first step of my restoration to sanity and self-respect to one man who, with unfathomable intuition and faith in humanity, made a selfless, precise therapeutic intervention in my spirit, and demanded neither my soul nor my bank book as recompense: Make peace with yourself. Put aside anger. Reconcile with your neighbor.
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Uncle Irv
We don't do anything, not even read. There's something in the atmosphere and experience that takes away the ability to concentrate or focus. One's greatest desire is simply not to be there, not to be doing this, and to have it be over with as quickly as possible.
There are two groups of people in the room. Those who, like me, have their wives or husbands sitting by their side. And those who are alone.
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