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Inner Dimensions Story Comment Seasons of The a project of www.Chabad.org Beshalach 5764 (2004) Cuttings The three loves -- love of G-d, love of Trees don't talk, but they have a great deal to Torah and love of one's fellow -- are one. say. And one of the most amazing things a tree One cannot differentiate between them, Comment says is about survival for they are of a single essence... And ................................................... by Shlomo Yaffe since they are of a single essence, each one embodies all three... Women of the Inner Bible Eve, Sarah, Rachel, Miriam, Batsheva... From (The Lubavitcher the outside, the women of the Bible appear to Rebbe) Inner play only a supportive role in a drama dominat- ed by men; from the inside emerges a very dif- Dimensions ferent story... ......................................................by Tzvi Freeman “To the Point of Self-Sacrifice” The guard was stupefied: few were the cabinet- level ministers granted such a privilege, and Childish Delight Story here stood a young chassid with a beard, side- locks, chassidic garb and a Yiddish accent, at a time when to even reside in Petersburg was for- The child delights in the simple bidden to Jews things of life. Sometimes that delight could lead in the wrong direction. But ..................................Told by the Lubavitcher Rebbe the delight in itself is good. Man and Tree: A Tu B’shvat Anthology We need to embrace and nurture the The Human Tree... The Seven Kinds... delight while weaning it from those Branches... The Leaf... A Tree's New Year Seasons of things unwholesome. Resolutions... Fruit for thought for Tu B'Shevat the Soul (the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat), the "New Year for Trees" Day of Two Rebbes In 1951, the Torah-observant Jew living in Seasons of America was the object of contempt and derision by eve many of his own brethren. The most he the Soul could reasonably hope for was to persist in his own beliefs and try to pass them on to his chil- dren... Beshalach Exodus 13:17-17:16 In Beshalach the sea splits, manna rains down more daily thoughts & Parsha from heaven, water is extracted from a rock and quotes available online war is waged on Amalek. But all this happens all the time inside our souls... The content on this page is produced by Chabad.org, For more information or to subscribe new material and is copyrighted by the author, publisher and/or to one of our many insipiring added daily! Chabad.org. If you enjoyed this article, we encourage periodicals log on to: you to distribute it further, provided that you comply with our copyright policy. www.Chabad.org Editor: Yanki Tauber, Illustrator: Sarah Kranz www.Chabad.org Comment Cuttings by Shlomo Yaffe As we approach Tu B’Shvat (the 15th of the month of Shevat on the Jewish calendar) which is designated as the "New Year for Trees" it's time to listen to what the trees have to say to us. (Trees don't talk but have a great deal to say, in contrast to candidates for political office who talk a great deal and have very little to say.) One of the most amazing things a tree tells is about survival. Even if a terrible storm or vicious beast will tear apart a where they resettled, making those communities far greater fruit tree and smash it utterly, as long as one twig remains, than they ever were before. we can plant it on its own, or graft it onto another far less fruitful tree. This cutting will flourish as a tree bearing We, who have merited being healthy, whole "trees" all our beautiful fruit -- fruit of the same flavor the original tree lives, must ask ourselves: How much more is asked of us, had; or alternatively, it will greatly enrich and increase the who have not suffered! Let us challenge ourselves to carry productivity of the tree into which it was grafted. on the work of this most shattered yet most fruitful genera- tion. Recently, on a particularly frigid Friday night, one of the people who braved the elements to attend Shabbat Eve serv- May our deeds serve as a good answer. ices at our synagogue was a Holocaust survivor who after- wards said the following to me: "Rabbi, I don’t know how I ever survived dozens of days colder than this during the Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is the spiritual leader of Congregation Agudas Holocaust. We had to stand motionless outside for more Achim of West Hartford, Connecticut than two hours in nothing but a thin pair of pajamas. As the years go by I see my survival more and more as a miracle." Hearing these words as I was about to go warmly bundled up into the cutting cold evoked the unspeakable pain and suffering of the Holocaust, and my own inability to ever truly grasp it, in a very poignant way. But something else came to me: These words came from a man who came to this country after the Shoah and, notwith- standing everything he had endured, raised a beautiful fam- ily, and is very active in our Synagogue and Jewish com- munal life. This experience of unstinting contribution to Judaism and the Jewish community is the rule, rather than the exception, among the Holocaust survivors that I have met. They may have come here as scattered and broken twigs, but these cuttings have flourished and borne fruit in all areas of religious and communal endeavor throughout the Israeli, American and European Jewish communities Comment | Inner Dimensions | Story | Seasons of the Soul | A Day of Two Rebbes | Parshah | Week at Glance 2 www.Chabad.org As long as the drama of this universe remains incomplete, the Inner Dimensions Shechina is silent, she does not sing. We see the world She vitalizes, but we do not hear her voice within it. In all peo- Women of the Inner ple’s minds, She plays a secondary role — for her husband conquers and subdues, while she, they say, only provides life Bible and nurture. Such is the mindset of an immature world. by Tzvi Freeman There is a time-yet-to-come, when the secret of the Inner Light will be revealed. Then the Mother of Life will sing loud without bound. There is an outer Bible — a story of men and women, of wars 2) Sarah and wonders. And there is an inner Bible, according to ancient traditions, in which each word uncovers fathomless “Whatever Sarah tells you,” G-d told Abraham, “listen to wisdom, beauty and light. her.” (Genesis 21:12) From the outside, the women of the Bible appear to play only The first to heal the wound that Eve had made was Sarah. She a supportive role in a drama dominated by men. descended to the lair of the snake, to the palace of Pharaoh. She resisted his lure and rose back up. While living within, From the inside emerges a story of men manipulated by she remained bonded to Above. potent women and nurtured with feminine values. A story that reveals the inner quality of womanhood that transcends the It was Abraham who empowered Sarah to do so. Yet Abraham minds of men. himself was not capable of such a thing. This is the role of a man — to activate the power that lies dormant in a woman. This is the secret of the words of Solomon’s wisdom, “A Without a woman, a man has no bond with the Shechina. woman of valor is the crown of her husband.” As a crown is Without a man, the woman cannot be the Shechina. Once above the head and beyond it, so the inner light of woman- there is a man, the woman becomes everything. hood is of an essence-quality, of a place the mind cannot touch. Sarah is the embodiment of the cosmic power of purification and healing of souls. What Chava confused and stirred 1) Chava (Eve) together, Sarah sifts and refines; where Chava entered in darkness, Sarah switches on the light. Her work continues “Then Adam called his wife Chava, for she was the mother of through each generation: As the soul of Abraham draws souls all life.” (Genesis 3:20) in and holds them close to the Infinite Light, the soul of Sarah She was the other side of the image of G-d. For G-d is not just discerns the stains that must be cleaned and the dross that a boundless light, beyond all things. G-d is something that is must be rejected. When any soul or spark of light is healed here now, within all things, giving them life, being whatever and returned to its source, you will know that Sarah’s touch they are being. In her source above, she is “the Shechina” — was there. the Divine Presence That Dwells Within. 3) Rebecca This is what drove the earthly Chavah to eat the fruit: this “Drink…and I will also draw water for your camels to yearning to be within, to experience the taste of life, to be drink.” (Genesis 24:17-18) immersed in it. With this she transgressed — she carried her- self from the realm of the Divine into a world where all that With these words, Rebecca betrothed herself to Isaac and rose is real is the here and now, where there is no vantage point to become mother of two great nations. Not for her act of giv- from which to discern good from evil, no light to discern the ing, alone, but for her eagerness, because she chased after any fruit from its husk.
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