shelach lecha

June 12, 2015
By bethmordecai
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Parashat Sh’lah L’kha (שלח לך) — Why Is Life So Hard?

Parashat Sh'lah L'kha (שלח לך) -- Why Is Life So Hard? Every person experiences challenges in their daily life. For some those challenges are major and for some they are minor. But no one has experienced life without some aspect of pain, suffering, or difficulty. Why is this? Why can't life be easier? Why does it seem that we have to go through pain to discover life's greatest moments? This week, we will try to answer these questions by unpacking one verse (Numbers 14:17) from this week's Torah portion of Sh'lah L'kha with the help of the hasidic Torah commentary Noam Elimelekh. Join us for this fascinating conversation about the nature of life! Classes from other years: Triennial III (2013/5773) -- One Torah[...]

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shelach lecha

June 13, 2014
By bethmordecai
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Parashat Sh’lah L’kha (שלח לך): The Religious Value of Doubting What You See and Desire

Parashat Sh’lah L’kha: The Religious Value of Doubting What You See and Desire In this week’s Torah portion we read the stories of twelve leaders of Israel who are commanded to “spy” (la-tur) the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:2). Yet at the end of the Torah portion, the  root t-u-r that was used earlier for the positive command “to spy” is used here as the negative command for the Israelites to “not follow (v’lo taturu) what they feel in their hearts and what they see with their eyes (Numbers 15:39).  What can we learn from the juxtaposition of different meanings for this same root? Why[...]

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