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Allegorically, Moshe represents our ability to draw out particular things from a midst the many stirring things encountered in experience.1 Aharon,...
In the previous parashah, the song to be sung in Ha’azinu was repeatedly referred to as “this song.” Allegorically haShyR haZot (השיר...
Moshe (משה), representing our ability to draw out particular things from a midst the many stirring things encountered in experience,1 directs an...
Throughout Torah, the word haMaQoM (המקום) refers to a vaguely defined destination to which HaShem will eventually lead the people. In hindsight,...
When you come into the disposing of oneself (land)1 to experience that God’s bringing forth of existence (Y-H-W-H), God’s guidance being presented...
A life well lived is a life full of striving, of facing challenges, both external and internal. External challenges appear mightier than our perceived...
Virtue signaling aside, “righteousness, righteousness – you shall pursue” is one of my favorite lines of Torah. Nevertheless, from an...
The word G’rizim (גרזים) alludes to acts of repeatedly drawing into something1 – as an ax (גרזן GaRZen) repeatedly drives into wood and...
The word mishpat (משפט) is a declaration made by a shophaet (judge) that provides clarification and instruction. However, when used allegorically,...
Literally meaning a continuous accumulation of water, the river called the Yardaen signifies a continuous accumulation of things from experience....
These are the travels of those of the behaviors of making a sustained survey of the many things advancing forward in experience (Israel). They went...
In the previous parashah, Pinchus’ actions demonstrate the importance of arching above (רמח spear) the myriad of options found in experience and...
Before a person can decide upon which of the many opportunities to engage, they first must assess what is available in experience. It is easy to flail...
Beyond all other considerations, the purpose of life is to live it. With our advanced brains and complex emotional systems, human beings have the...
The Israelites failed to willingly accept God’s challenge to enter into what was oppressively drawing in of experience (Canaan).1 They failed to be...
In the previous parashah, God sent us to dispose ourselves (ארץ)1 to what oppressively draws in from experience (Canaan).2 Failing that, God...
In parashat Sh’lah (שלח), the people are instructed to send men to spy out the land of Canaan. Starting out from Paran (פארן), “one’s...
At the end of the previous parashah, Moshe enters the tent of meeting and hears “the voice” speaking to him. On the peshat, we assume that the...
One must be vigilant when observing experience, not only to guard against dangers, but also to become aware of the opportunities that lay ahead. The...
The opening parashah of the book of B’midbar in some ways is fairly simple thematically. Chapter one introduces the names of the heads of each tribe...
Last week’s blog emphasized that embedded within the tapestry of our lives there are specific experiences created for us by God that we should focus...
The verb KaHaeN (כהן) means “to perform with precise and mindful intention” or “to give something precise and mindful attention.”1 Even...
In the opening paragraph of parashat Acharay mot, there are a number of reasons — both stated and implied — as to why Aharon (representing one’s...
So much of ancient Judaism concerns itself with the opposite concepts of being ritually impure (טמא TaMae/) and ritually pure (טהור TaHoR)....
In the chapter before parashat Sh’mini (chapter 8 of Leviticus), Moshe anoints not only Aharon, but also all that is in the mishkan, the altar, the...
Parashat Tsaw begins with the phrase: זאת תורת העלה “This is the Torah of the ascension offering.” This phrase: “This is the Torah...
God wants us to be close. HaShem does not need to eat, nor have a need for us to sacrifice from our resources to be appeased. Offerings to HaShem do...
The point of writing a Torah blog is to understand the Torah as fully as possible. Sometimes an attempt to see the larger picture transcends the...
In Judaism, the two most common names for God are Elohim and the tetragrammaton (Y-H-W-H). The word Elohim (אלהים) is the plural for Eloah...
Of the 12 occurrences of the expression: לכהן לי “for the purpose of performing the priestly functions for me,” half are to be found in...
In Parashat Terumah, HaShem instructs Moshe to have the children of Yisrael take up for God fifteen items for the purpose of making the mishkan, its...
The purpose of life is to live it. The allegory of Torah reiterates this over and again. In parashat Mishpatim. The text says: מכשפה לא...
Fundamentally, the purpose of Torah is to bring us closer to God. The allegorical understanding of Torah does this by showing us how to mentally...
When Pharaoh (our chaotically attending to too many things in experience)1 finally does send forth the ability to be mindful of experience (עם, the...
As an archetype, Pharaoh is not a bad actor, he is simply an aspect of each one of us, our being in denial and thus chaotically attending to too many...
The most frequently used names that refer to G-d in the Torah are the tetragrammaton (YHWH), Elohim, El and El Shaddai. In the previous parshah, the...
As was true with the book of B’raeshit, the allegory of Sh’mot is about mentally processing what is encountered in experience. Each of the cast of...
Allegorically, Mitsraim represents a person’s attempts to focus (narrow in) upon the many things that are narrowing in, from experience.1 This being...
There are times when we are too afraid to engage all that life is throwing at us. There is a fear that a calamity might befall us. In the previous...
Reading one of my blogs can be rather perplexing. The first paragraph may seem clear enough, but by the time you have reached paragraph three –...
In order for him to fulfill his archetypal role as a person’s grabbing at what comes around so as to investigate, Yaaqov1 took from Esau2 (his...
A quick perusal of English Torah translations demonstrate a difficulty in translating, k’tonet pasim (כתנת פסים), Yoseph’s coat of many...
As a means of engaging with experience and processing what is encountered, Yaaqov represents a person’s grabbing at what comes around and...
Imagine you are at a wide open assemblage of all types of people. Strewn across the scene, there are entertainers and artists, entrepreneurs and...
In this week’s parshah, Sarah dies and Avraham negotiates for a burial plot for her, and for his posterity. Thereafter, Avraham sends his servant to...
The Hebrew word for men /aNaShim (אנשים), from the noun /eNoSh (אנוש), evolved from the root /aNaH (אנה) meaning to impose or apply...
In Parshat Laekh L’kha, haShem instructs Avram to go to the land that He would show him. He leaves Charan with his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot,...
From an allegorical point of view, Noach is an archetype, a representation of our desire to take a rest from the challenges of life. When his father...
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