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NACHAS AT A GLANCE CONTENTS Weekly Message: 3 MECHIRAS CHOMETZ - SELLING OF THE CHOMETZ AT THE SHUL Thoughts on the Parsha - Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar
Celebrating Shabbos: 4 - 5 Schedules, classes, articles & more... Everything you need for an “Over the Top” Shabbos experience
Community Happenings: 6 -7 Sharing with your Shul Family
All Things Sephardic: 8 - 9 Schedules, classes, articles & more
Daily Study: 12 A complete guide to all classes and courses offered at The Shul
Inspiration, Insights & Ideas: 10 - 22 Bringing Torah lessons to LIFE
Get The Picture: 23 - 28 The full scoop on all the great events around town
In a Woman’s World: 29 Issues of relevance to the Jewish woman
French Connection: 30 Reflexions sur la Paracha
Latin Link: 31 Reflexion Semanal
Networking: 32- 33 & 35 Effective Advertising
Numbers To Know: 34 Contacts at The Shul
Get The Picture: 36 The full scoop on all the great events around town THOUGHTS ON THE PARSHA FROM RABBI SHOLOM LIPSKAR SHEVII - ACHARON SHEL PESACH
the hope that this will be the year when Moshiach will finally fter experiencing a year arrive. of severe limitations and the lack of freedom of A Whether we interpret the statements in Isaiah’s prophecy that movement due to the world “the lion and lamb will graze together and the child will play on having been paralyzed with a the nest of the viper” in a literal fashion or representing various once in history pandemic, and nations personified by these symbolic animals, there will be our own individual limitations peace, tranquility, joy and the absence of illness, jealousies, and infringements together wars, conflagrations and hatred. with spiritual exile and challenges, we celebrated our “The world will literally be filled with the knowledge of Hashem annual holiday representing as the waters fill the sea.” our Exodus from every aspect of exile materially and We are ready. spiritually. Have a great and emancipating Shabbos and Yom Tov! We sat like kings around our Royal Seder table and proclaimed with prayer, song and festivity the fact that Almighty G-d endowed us with an essential internalized state of freedom never to submit to human enslavement. Rabbi S. Lipskar Now as we approach the last two days of this holiday of freedom we are about to commemorate and experience the next and ultimate level of total and absolute freedom.
On the seventh day of Pesach when we experienced the greatest miracle of “the splitting of the sea”, another dimension of freedom enveloped us as we witnessed the final destruction of the Egyptians who enslaved us for 210 years and were in immediate pursuit to recapture us.
That, however, was not to be our completed final emancipation as we were then confronted with our eternal enemy Amalek, and for the next more than three millenniums experienced multiple exiles and persecutions by the hands of the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans which continues until this day.
Then comes the eighth and final day of Passover when we relate to the messianic era with the advent of Moshiach, as we will read in the prophecy of Isaiah during the last day of Passover about the actualization of our millennial yearning for our complete and final redemption for which we yearn incessantly and impatiently each day.
We will even enjoy a special meal called Seudas Moshiach initiated by the Baal Shemtov and celebrated each year with 3 CELEBRATING PESACH EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR AN “OVER THE TOP” YOM TOV EXPERIENCE
Pesach Schedule
Friday, April 2 - 4th Day Chol Hamoed / Shevii Shel 7:20 p.m. Sephardic Minyan Mincha /Arvit 6:50 a.m. Shacharis—Morning Services 8:13 p.m. Candle Lighting from an existing flame - after 7:30 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services 8:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit Sunday, April 4 - Last Day of Passover 8:05 a.m. Daf Yomi Acharon Shel Pesach 9:00 a.m. Shacharis - Morning Services 7:15 a.m. Hashkama Minyan 7:20 p.m. Candle Lighting - Shevii Shel Pesach 8:00 a.m. Shacharis - First Minyan 7:20 p.m. Mincha Followed By Ma’ariv 9:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit 7:20 p.m. Sephardic Minyan Mincha/ Arvit 9:30 a.m. (approx) Yizkor 11:30 p.m. All Night Learning 10:30 a.m. Second Minyan 12:00 p.m. (approx) Yizkor Shabbos, April 3 - Shevi Shel Pesach 6:50 p.m. Mincha 7:15 a.m. Hashkama Minyan 7:00 p.m. Sephardic Mincha 8:00 a.m. Shacharis - First Minyan 7:15 p.m. Moshiach’s Seudah (Grand Celebration & Farbrengen) 9:00 a.m. Sephardic Minyan Shacharit 8:14 p.m Passover Ends 10:30 a.m. Second Minyan 8:45 p.m. Chometz Sold by Rabbi Can Be Eaten 7:20 p.m. Mincha Followed By Ma’ariv
4 HALACHA OF THE WEEK HALACHOS OF PESACH By Rabbi Dov Schochet
Friday, April 2 - 20 Nissan Morning service. Half Hallel is recited. Two On this final day of Passover we strive for 6th day of Passover-Yom Tov Torah scrolls are taken out of the ark. the highest level of freedom, and focus on 4th day of Chol Hamoed (intermediate days) Torah reading: Exodus 13:17–15:26 and the Final Redemption. Following the Baal Numbers 28:19–25. Shem Tov’s custom, we end Passover with Morning service: In many communities, Haftarah: II Samuel 22:1–51. “Moshiach’s Feast” — a festive meal complete throughout the intermediate days of with matzah and four cups of wine, during Passover, tefillin are not worn. The Priests bless the congregation with the which we celebrate the imminent arrival of Priestly Blessing during the Musaf prayer. the Messiah. The feast begins before sunset Half Hallel is recited. Two Torah scrolls and continues until after nightfall. are taken out of the ark. Torah reading: Festive lunch meal. Numbers 9:1–14 and Numbers 28:19–25. Evening prayers. After the Amidah, count Evening prayers, the weekday Amidah is The Musaf Amidah is recited. During all of the 7th day of the Omer. recited. After the Amidah, count the 8th day the Intermediate Days, Yaaleh Veyavo is of the Omer. inserted during all prayers and in the Grace Light candles for the 8th day of Passover After Meals. after 8:13pm, using an existing flame, and After nightfall, perform the Havdalah recite blessing. ceremony, omitting the blessings on the The Intermediate Days are observed with spices and on the candle flame. limited work restriction. Sunday , April 4 – 22 Nissan Final Day of Passover - Acharon Shel Pesach Nightfall is the official end of Passover (Yom Light candles for the 7th day of Passover, Tov ends at 8:14pm). Wait an hour to give and recite blessings. Morning service. Half Hallel is recited. Two the rabbi enough time to buy back your Torah scrolls are taken out of the ark. chametz before eating it. Evening prayers. After the Amidah, count the Torah reading: Deuteronomy 15:19–16:17 6th day of the Omer. and Numbers 28:19–25. Monday, April 5 - 23 Nissan The day following the holiday is known as It is customary in many communities to Haftarah: Isaiah 10:32–12:6. Isru Chag. It is forbidden to fast on this day. remain awake all night, studying Torah, in The Yizkor memorial service is recited commemoration of the great miracle of the following the Torah reading. Splitting of the Sea, which occurred on the 7th day of Passover. The Priests bless the congregation with the Priestly Blessing during the Musaf prayer. Shabbat, April 3 - 21 Nissan 7th day of Passover — Shevi’i Shel Pesach Festive lunch meal. 5 6 7 COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS SHARING WITH YOUR SHUL FAMILY
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SHACHARIS MINYANIM (MON - FRI) SUNDAY SHACHARIS MINYANIM Main Minyan 6:45 7:30 9:00 Main Minyan 8:00 am 9:00 am Sephardic Minyan 8:00 Sephardic Minyan 8:30 am
DAILY CHUMASH & TANYA AFTER EVERY MINYAN
MINCHA / MAARIV MINYANIM (MON - THURS) SUNDAY MINCHA / Main Minyan 2:00 pm Early Mincha 7:20 pm 10:00 pm MAARIV MINYANIM Sephardic Minyan 7:20 pm Following Main Minyan 7:20 pm Late Maariv 9:00 pm
HALACHIC TIMES BASED ON TIMES FOR APRIL 7
Alot Hashachar / Dawn 5:52 am Earliest Talit & Tefillin 6:23 am Netz Hachamah / Sunrise 7:05 am (Earliest Amidah) Latest Shema 10:12 am Zman Tfillah 11:15 am Chatzot / Midday 1:22 pm Earliest Mincha 1:55 pm Plag HaMincha 6:25 pm Shekiah / Sunset 7:40 pm (Preferable latest time for Mincha) Tzeit Hakochavim / Nightfall 8:04 pm (Earliest preferable Ma’ariv) To our beloved Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Times taken from www.chabad.org Forces, courageously protecting and defending Please note that during the week times may Eretz Yisroel. We pray for you and all of Vary by a minute or two. the soldiers safety and well being daily. Menachem Mendel ben Chaya Leah Menachem Mendel ben Aurit Eden Chana bat Karine Cecile
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11 DAILY WISDOM Inspiring insights on the Torah
Shabbos, 21 Nissan Sunday, 22 Nissan
Avoiding Being Duped When Aaron is Superior to Moses [G‑d instructed Moses to teach the Jewish people On the eighth day, Moses summoned Aaron and his how] to distinguish between the defiled and the sons. Leviticus9:1 undefiled. Leviticus 11:47 Due to the limitations of our finite human minds, we cannot attain ultimate Divine consciousness on our own. G‑d therefore Spiritually, this decree refers to making the moral distinction revealed Divinity in such a way that we can grasp it, by giving us between what is acceptable, healthy behavior and what is not. This the Torah. Once this had been accomplished, the next step was distinction is easy enough when matters are clear and obvious. But to prepare the world to absorb the G‑dliness that is inherent in all too often, the distinction is blurred, and what is in fact defiled can the Torah, for without preparation on our part, Divine revelation easily be taken as being undefiled. cannot be absorbed into our being, and therefore cannot elevate us in any meaningful or lasting way. By studying the Torah, we remain connected to G‑d, who is not subject to the limited reach of human intellect. Thus attuned to G‑d gave us the Torah through Moses, but Aaron was the one Divine consciousness, we instinctively know what is spiritually who made society receptive to G‑dliness by inspiring the healthy and what is not. people to aspire to the spiritual life. It was therefore Aaron who completed the process of Divine revelation begun by Moses. The rites that Moses performed in the Tabernacle’s installation rites did not reveal G‑d’s presence; only those that Aaron performed accomplished this. We all desire to feel G‑d’s presence in our lives. In order for this to occur, we must imitate Aaron: “love peace and pursue peace; love your fellow creatures and bring them close to the Torah.” Monday, 23 Nissan Consummate Humility Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and Tuesday, 24 Nissan blessed them. Leviticus 9:22 Managing Ecstasy Although Aaron was aware that it was his performance of this A fire went forth from before G‑d and consumed special day’s rituals that would bring G‑d’s presence into the them. Leviticus 10:2 Tabernacle, and he did everything exactly as Moses instructed, he still felt unworthy of his role. The memory of his participation in Nadav and Avihu were swept up in the ecstasy of the moment. the incident of the Golden Calf still weighed heavily on him. In their intense desire to cleave to G‑d, which they expressed through their unauthorized incense offering, they rose through Aaron expressed these sentiments when he blessed the people, spiritual heights even as they felt their souls leaving them. applying the text of the priestly blessing to the day’s unique From this perspective, their death was not a punishment but a circumstances: He said, “We know that G‑d’s presence can only fulfillment of their wish to dissolve into G‑d’s essence. dwell in this Tabernacle if He has forgiven us for the incident of the Golden Calf. Since I played a central role in this incident, His Nevertheless, we are not intended to imitate their example; forgiveness for all of us depends upon His forgiving me. Therefore, on the contrary, we are expressly forbidden to pursue such until we know that G‑d has forgiven me, I cannot bless your efforts suicidal spiritual rapture. Although it is necessary to seek by myself. Therefore, I must appeal to G‑d Himself to bless you and inspiration and renew it constantly, the purpose of reaching watch over you. May G‑d shine His face to you and grace you with increasingly higher planes of Divine consciousness is to His presence, as a result of His being partial toward you, forgiving bring the consciousness that we acquire down into the world, you the sin of the Golden Calf, and thereby granting you peace.” thereby making the world increasingly more conscious of G‑d, Like all great Jewish leaders, it was Aaron’s feelings of inadequacy transforming it into His home. that truly made him fit for his role.
12 Wednesday, 25 Nissan Thursday, 26 Nissan Eliciting the Supernatural The Absolute vs. the Relative [Moses said to Aaron and his sons,] “You must eat Aaron said to Moses, “If I had eaten a [regular] [your portions of the sacrifices . . . ] for so have I been sin-offering today, would it have pleased commanded [by G‑d].” Leviticus 10:13 G‑d?” Leviticus 10:19
The normal rules governing the behavior of the priests were Moses’ and Aaron’s perspectives on the difference suspended on the eighth day of the installation rites because the between the special sacrifices of the day and those day’s essential message was that G‑d can override His own rules. that would be offered up on a regular basis reflect Whereas the number seven signifies the natural order, the number their emphases in our relationship with G‑d. Moses eight signifies the miraculous transcendence of natural order. was devoted to transmitting G‑d’s Torah to the people, whereas Aaron was devoted to elevating the people to Nevertheless, there could not have been a miraculous eighth day the Torah. of the Tabernacle’s inauguration without the preceding seven non-miraculous days. This is because G‑d makes His miraculous The Torah is unchanging truth, whereas human beings intervention in life dependent upon us. are constantly changing. Moses saw the Torah’s truth as being uniformly applicable in all situations, whereas The ultimate transcendence of the natural order will occur in the Aaron realized that each situation must be assessed Messianic era. The miraculous revelations of the future will be the in order to know how to apply the Torah’s unchanging result of the preparations we make now. As we continue to refine truth effectively. Aaron saw that a one-time sacrifice is the world through natural means, we should bear in mind that the different than one that would be offered up regularly, results of our efforts will be beyond whatever we can imagine. that G‑d’s truth can be reflected differently in different contexts.
In our own lives, we must meld Moses’ and Aaron’s perspectives. For ourselves, we must be like Moses, Friday, 27 Nissan devoted to the Torah’s absolute and unchanging truth. When interacting with others, we, like Aaron, must take Cloven Feet into account their moods and inclinations, drawing [G‑d instructed Moses to tell the Jewish people, “You may them closer to the Torah through forgiving love. only eat animals] whose feet are [not only partially] cloven but completely split into [at least two sub-]feet.” Leviticus 11:3 The first sign of a kosher animal is its split foot. The foot both touches the ground and separates us from the ground. It therefore alludes to the notion that in our involvement with the physical world, we must remain separate from it, aloof in our dealings with materiality. The fact that the foot must be split alludes to the notion that there must be an opening in this barrier: We must make sure that the light of holiness permeates even the most mundane aspects of creation, and make sure to retain Divine consciousness even when we are involved in the mundane aspects of our lives.
The other sign of kosher land animals is rumination. This alludes to the necessity of deliberating before engaging the mundane aspects of life. First, we must weigh our intentions, ensuring that they are solely toward elevating the world, purging them of any desire to simply indulge in sensuality for its own sake. Second, we must weigh the methods we employ in elevating the world, ensuring that they conform to the guidelines set forth in the Torah.
13 PESACH MESSAGES THE PHARAOH SYNDROME By Tzvi Freeman
eople knock pop-psychologists and their euphemisms, but I often wonder if we wouldn’t be better off borrowing some of their political Pcorrectness when dealing with Torah issues. The four sons, for example, might be better understood as the Gifted Child, the Difficult Child, the Well- Balanced Child and the Inquisitively Challenged Child. “The Desecrators of the Holy Shabbat” might be more inclined towards meaningful dialogue if we modified our terminology to the Sabbatically Challenged. Switching to “the Chassidically Challenged” could end much inter-sectarian strife, since it lands us all somewhere along the same spectrum. “The has been known to result in violent death by trashed, that life becomes totally weird, and G‑d’s Halachically Challenged” may also be helpful for drowning under the crashing waves of the voice is heard bellowing, “Tzvi Freeman, take much the same reason. Red Sea. note! This is a miracle!”? There are also some major aspects of the Exodus As you can immediately realize, now that Wrong. That’s just the Pharaoh inside us all story that could be better understood if we would just I’ve provided a more sympathetic view of over again. Perhaps somewhat more subtle, but apply the right nomenclature. Pharaoh’s personal difficulties, he becomes Pharaoh nonetheless. so much easier to relate to. After all, we all do Take the Red Sea event that occurred on the seventh the same thing all the time. It’s called “worry”. Monotheism means believing that the natural day of Passover. It’s difficult to understand Pharaoh order is not an absolute set of rules to either play when you consider matters superficially. He sees Worry is a state where we ignore the obvious, by or break by. Believing there is One Infinite an entire nation led by a pillar of fire over a dry bed perceived reality in favor of a warped, Force behind all things means acknowledging between two pillars of water that stand as stone walls, unsubstantiated view of how we imagine that He can be found doing His thing anywhere— yet like a madman rushes in with his entire army. And the natural order to be. We imagine our life by the rules or not by the rules. Nothing stops it wasn’t like he had no precedent to learn from. as a struggle between our own competency Him from getting His way—no supervising and the laws of physics, commerce and social One might be tempted to describe Pharaoh in this committee, no appeal board, no shareholders, acceptance. And if that were the true reality, no mother-in-law. Not even The Natural Order. situation as a little lacking up there, to be polite. But we really would have a lot to worry about. here is a case where one of those pc terminologies That’s just a façade. It’s really all just Him. comes in useful. You see, Pharaoh was actually The obvious reality is that our daily life is full quite intellectually capable. It was just that he was of miracles straight from Above. We have The prognosis? According to the prophets, we monotheistically challenged. very little control over where we end up and eventually grow out of this. Like we read in the what we have to do there. Physics doesn’t haftorah for the last day of Passover: “As the To be more specific, Pharaoh belonged to a subset of have much say, either. That’s just the mode of days when you left Egypt, so I will make you see the monotheistically challenged that have a fixation transport. We only need to do our best with miracles.” (Micah 7:15) with a perceived natural order. It’s called “Ma’at” in whatever we are given and have confidence Ancient Egyptian. Similar to the Buddhist concept of in the Director Of It All that He knows what Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (the kharma. In modernese, “deterministic, materialist He’s doing. And if we mess up, say sorry, have “Tzemach Tzedek,” 1789-1866) explained, “As reductionism”—which some people still believe confidence that He’s good and cares for us, the days when you pointed at the Red Sea physics is all about. and get on with things. splitting and said, ‘This is my G‑d doing this!’ so then, in those times when we will leave this The pathology works like this: When a conflict arises But instead, we worry. exile, I will let you see the even more wondrous between the natural order and perceived reality (i.e. miracles that are happening now every day in a miracle), the subject experiences anxiety. Whereas Why do we worry? Because we don’t perceive your daily life.” this anxiety could be easily resolved through the the miracles. Why don’t we perceive the assumption of an Omnipotent Force behind and miracles? Because we see this natural order We can open our minds and try to start seeing beyond nature, our subject prefers to simply ignore going on all around us, and if there is a reality that way right now. And stop worrying. the obvious reality before his eyes in favor for the natural order, then miracles could not have world- concept of natural order that he has previously happened, right? After all, don’t miracles integrated into his perception and personality. This mean that nature’s laws are temporarily 14 MIRIAM’S SONG The womanly strain in the “Song at the Sea” Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe the people of Israel entered the harshest phase of Courtesy of MeaningfulLife.com the Egyptian exile; Miriam, who when the infant Moses was placed in a basket at the banks of the iriam the prophetess ... took the tambourine in Nile, “stood watch from afar, to see what would her hand; and all the women followed her with become of him” (Exodus 2:4). tambourines and dances. M For it was Miriam, with her deep well of feminine And Miriam called to them: Sing to G‑d... feeling, who truly experienced the bitterness of galut (exile and persecution). And it was Miriam, Exodus 15:20-21 with her woman’s capacity for endurance, perseverance, and hope, who stood a lonely watch We don’t sing when we are frightened, despairing, over the tender, fledging life in a basket at the sleepy, or after a heavy meal. We sing when we edge of a mammoth river; whose vigilance over are pining after one whom we love, when we are what would become of him and his mission to yearning for better times, when we are celebrating an bring redemption to her people never faltered. achievement or anticipating a revelation. The image of the young woman standing watch We don’t sing when we are complacent. We sing when in the thicket of rushes at the edge of the Nile, we are striving for something, or when we have tasted the hope of redemption persevering against the joy and are climbing it to the heavens. bitterness of galut in her heart, evokes the image and on a mid-winter Shabbat in the course of of another watching matriarch — Rachel. As the Song is prayer, the endeavor to rise above the petty the annual Torah-reading cycle — a Shabbat prophet Jeremiah describes it, it is Rachel who, in cares of life and cleave to one’s source. Song is the which is therefore distinguished with the her lonely grave on the road from Bethlehem to quest for redemption. name Shabbat Shirah, “Shabbat of Song.” Jerusalem, weeps over her children’s suffering in galut. It is she, more than the male patriarchs or The Midrash enumerates ten preeminent songs in The Song at the Sea praises G‑d for His leaders of Israel, who feels the depth of our pain; the history of Israel — ten occasions on which our miraculous redemption of Israel when He it is her intervention before G‑d, after theirs has experience of redemption found expression in melody split the Red Sea for them and drowned the failed, which brings the redemption. and verse. The first nine were: the song sung on the pursuing Egyptians in it, and expresses Israel’s night of the Exodus in Egypt (Isaiah 30:29), the desire that G‑d lead them to their homeland Miriam and her chorus brought to the Song at “Song at the Sea” (Exodus 15:1-21), the “Song at the and rest His presence amongst them in the the Sea the intensity of feeling and depth of faith Well” (Numbers 21:17-20), Moses’ song upon his Holy Temple. It concludes with a reference to unique to womankind. Their experience of the completion of writing the Torah (Deuteronomy 32), the ultimate redemption, when “G‑d will reign bitterness of galut had been far more intense the song with which Joshua stopped the sun (Joshua for all eternity.” than that of their menfolk, yet their faith had been 10:12-13), Deborah’s song (Judges 5), King David’s stronger and more enduring. So their yearning for song (II Samuel 22), the song at the dedication of the Actually, there are two versions of the Song at redemption had been that much more poignant, Holy Temple (Psalms 30), and King Solomon’s Song of the Sea, a male version and a female version. as was their joy over its realization and their Songs extolling the love between the Divine Groom After Moses and the children of Israel sang striving towards its greater fulfillment. and His bride Israel. their song, “Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambourine in her hand; and Today The tenth song, says the Midrash, will be the shir all the women followed her with tambourines The great Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria writes that the chadash, the “New Song” of the ultimate redemption: and dances. And Miriam called to them: ‘Sing last generation before the coming of Moshiach is a redemption that is global and absolute; a redemption to G‑d, for He is most exalted; horse and rider the reincarnation of the generation of the Exodus. that will annihilate all suffering, ignorance, jealousy, He cast in the sea...’” and hate from the face of the earth; a redemption of Today, as we stand at the threshold of the ultimate such proportions that the yearning it evokes, and the The men sang, and then the women. The men redemption, it is once again the woman whose joy it brings, require a new song — a completely new sang, and then the women sang, danced, and song is the most poignant, whose tambourine is musical vocabulary — to capture the voice of Creation’s tambourined. The men sang — sang their joy the most hopeful, whose dance is the most joyous. ultimate striving. over their deliverance, sang their yearning for Today, as then, the redemption will be realized a more perfect redemption — but something in the merit of righteous women. Today, as then, Encore was lacking. Something that only a woman’s the woman’s yearning for Moshiach — a yearning The most well known of the ten songs of redemption song could complete. which runs deeper than that of the man, and is Shirat HaYam, the “Song at the Sea” sung by Moses inspires and uplifts it — forms the dominant strain and the children of Israel upon their crossing of the Feeling and Faith in the melody of redemption. Red Sea. We recite this song every day in our morning Miriam, the elder sister of Moses and Aaron, prayers, and publicly read it in the synagogue twice a presided over the female encore to the Song year: on the seventh day of Passover (the anniversary at the Sea. Miriam, whose name means of the splitting of the sea and the song’s composition), “bitterness,” because at the time of her birth 15 SPLIT YOUR SEA By Yosef Y. Jacobson
To match couples together is as difficult as the splitting of the sea,” states the Talmud.1
“What is the meaning behind these words? True, the process of finding and maintaining a life partner may be challenging and difficult, nothing short of a miracle. But why, of all miracles described in the Bible, does the Talmud choose specifically the miracle of the splitting of the sea to capture the licking the air, seeking to tear free of the blessing said at a wedding ceremony? Wouldn’t it process of marriage? wick and rise heavenward, so too the soul be more appropriate to say such a blessing when in man is always aspiring to leave its shell a child is born? The answer is that it is through the A Map of the Subconscious and experience oneness with the divine. uniting of man and woman that the image of G‑d What is the difference between the land and is most closely reflected. the sea? Both are vibrant and action-filled The Secret of Intimacy enviroments populated by a myriad of creatures This quest for a relationship with the divine The ramifications of this idea are important. It and a great variety of minerals and vegetation. Yet is manifested in our search for relationships means that marriage is not a suspension of one’s the universe of dry land is exposed and out in the with our twin flame here below. Where natural individual self for the sake of uniting with open for all to see and appreciate, while the world Freud diagnosed the libido as a craving for a stranger. Rather, through marriage man and of the sea is hidden beneath a blanket of water. union with a parent, and Jung saw it as a woman return to their true natural state, a single longing for the opposite gender etched in being reflecting G‑d, each in his and her own In Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah and Chassidic our collective unconscious, the Kabbalah unique way. Marriage allows wife and husband to spirituality), these two physical planes reflect understood it as a quest for union with discover their full and complete self, a self made the conscious and unconscious dimensions of G‑d. Our desire for intimacy is one of the up of masculine and feminine energy. the human psyche.2 Both parts of the self are profoundest expressions of our existential extremely vibrant and dynamic. The difference craving for Truth, for Oneness, for G‑d. Know Thyself between them is that while our conscious self is We may travel through life unaware of this displayed and exhibited for ourselves and others As the Book of Genesis states, “G‑d created dimension of self, seeking oneness with the to feel and experience, our subconscious self Man in His image, in the image of G‑d He divine. Throughout our years on this planet we remains hidden, not only from other people but created him; male and female He created may behave as though this element of self does even from ourselves. Most of us know very little of them.” Clearly, it was in the union and not exist. Though its symptoms reverberate what is going on in the sub-cellars of our psyche. oneness of the genders that the first Adam, through our consciousness — most often in the the first human being, reflected the image feelings of emptiness and lack of contentment If you were given a glimpse into your own “sea” of G‑d. when our spiritual self is un-satiated — we are and discovered the universe of personality hidden prone to dismiss it or deny it. After all, at least in beneath your conscious brain, what do you think This view of relationships and intimacy the short term, it is far easier to accept that we are you would find? Shame, fear, guilt, pain, insecurity, is expressed in the very Hebrew names nothing more than intelligent beasts craving self- an urge to destroy, to survive, to dominate, a cry for for man and woman given by Adam in gratification than spiritual souls craving for G‑d. love? Would you discover Freud’s Libido, Jung’s Genesis. The Hebrew words for man and collective unconscious, Adler’s search for power woman — Ish and Ishah — both contain When we view the surface self, selfishness is and control, Frankl’s quest for meaning? the Hebrew word for fire, Eish. They also easier than selflessness; isolation more natural each contain one more letter—a yud and than relationship; solitariness more innate than In Kabbalah, at the core of the human condition is a hei respectively—which when combined love and commitment. Only when we “split our a yearning for oneness. Rabbi Schneur Zalman of makes up G‑d’s name. The significance sea,” when we discover the depth of our souls, Liadi (1745-1812), founder of the Chabad school of this is profound. Man without woman, the subtle vibrations of our subconscious, do we of Kabbalah and one of the greatest soul-experts and woman without man, lack the fullness discover that oneness satisfies our deepest core; in the history of Judaism, has written more on of G‑d’s name. When they unite, the two- that love is the most natural expression of our the subject than any other Jewish sage. In 1796, half images of the divine within them also most profound selves. a hundred years before Freud, he published a unite. The fire and passion drawing them book, the Tanya, in which he presented his “map to each other is their yearning to recreate “To match couples together is as difficult as of the subconscious,” based on the Talmudic and the full name of G‑d between them. the splitting of the sea,” the Talmud states. Kabbalistic tradition. Rabbi Schnuer Zalman offers The challenge in creating and maintaining a a facinating parable for the inner life of the soul: At a Jewish wedding ceremony, this meaningful and powerful relationship is the need quoting the biblical verse, “The soul of man is a blessing is recited: Blessed are You, G‑d, to split our own seas each day, to learn how in the divine flame” (Proverbs 20:27), he explains that King of the Universe, Who created the depth of our spirits we yearn to love and share just as the flame is always swaying, dancing, human being in His image... Why is this our lives with another human being and with our creator. 16 MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE REBBE
SEDERRABBI SHLOMO CUNIN ON THE WRONG SIDE OF TOWN
he events which I am about to relate happened when I was eighteen Tyears old and still a student at the Chabad yeshivah in New York.
On the Eve of Passover, before going home to my parents for the Seder, I went to stand in line to receive a piece of matzah from the Rebbe.
When he saw me, the Rebbe said, “I understand that you are going to the Bronx so please be so kind and deliver matzah from me to a family over there. My secretariat will give you the address.” I was elated to have the privilege to do something for the Rebbe; I couldn’t be happier to do this good deed. But when I got the address from Rabbi Mordechai Hodakov, the Rebbe’s secretary, I realized this wouldn’t be a simple matter. to that particular address, I was Seder. We did not have a Haggadah, My parents lived near Yankee Stadium in informed that it was a housing but I led them from memory as best West Bronx, while this address was all project for the blind. And then it I could. I told them that we have to the way on the other side of the Bronx dawned on me that there must be have faith because on this night, G-d Zoo in East Bronx which, in 1958, was a specific reason why the Rebbe liberates us just as he liberated our a crime- ridden area, very dangerous at sent me here. ancestors from slavery. The husband night. and wife seemed to be hanging on to When I knocked on the door, I every word as if they were getting I called my mother and told her, smelled something coming from nourishment just by listening. I told “Mammaleh, the Rebbe gave me a inside that could only be bacon, them that, on Passover, we journey special assignment, so I’m not sure what and when I entered, I saw a loaf from our personal Egypt to freedom, time I will come home. Do me a favor — of bread on the table. Clearly, this and that G-d doesn’t put on our if I am not home for the Seder, just start was not a Torah-observant family shoulders more than we can carry. without me. And if I don’t come home till that avoided non-kosher food and Once you know that and believe it, very late, don’t worry.” removed all leaven products from you’re already liberated. the house for Passover! I took the subway and, don’t you know, As they clearly had no kosher cups as often happens in New York, it broke But I knew that I was on a mission, and no kosher wine or grape juice, I down and I was stuck for a while. When so I put a smile on my face and asked for paper cups, which I filled I finally got off, I had just enough time introduced myself to the tattoo- with water. This is how we tried to before Passover started to empty my covered man who greeted me. “I fulfill the mitzvah to drink four cups, pockets and throw away all the money am here to deliver matzah sent by and we recited the proper blessings I had, including the taxi money for my the Rebbe,” I said, “and I am sure over the Rebbe’s matzah. return trip, since per Jewish law I could he would like me to share with you not have money with me on the holy the story of Passover. Are your By the time we finished, it was quite day. People who saw me do this thought wife and children around?” late, yet even so, I wanted to know I was crazy and everyone grabbed what exactly why the Rebbe had sent me I had thrown down. The man called in his wife, who was there. So I said to them, “I would be obviously pregnant, and two little very pleased to know, if you don’t I walked the rest of the way to Pelham girls who were both totally blind. mind sharing with me, how you came Parkway, and when I asked for directions We cleared the table and started the to know the Rebbe.” 17 was. He was not Torah observant most crime-ridden neighborhoods and “I am a tanner in a slaughterhouse,” in any way. He and his wife were arrived at my parents’ safe and sound the man replied, explaining that his Jewish but that was all. Nonetheless, at 4 or so in the morning. My mother job was to skin the animals after they he did what the Chabad chasid was waiting up for me, and when I told were slaughtered. He related his story recommended — he wrote to the her the story, she couldn’t have been haltingly, in a simple way, so I am just Rebbe. more happy. condensing his words here: “At work, I met a kashrut supervisor who is a The answer from the Rebbe came But here is the best part: Chabad chasid and I confided in him back: “Don’t have an abortion. I give that I have two blind children, and that you a blessing that, G-d willing, the The baby was born — a boy who could now my wife has become pregnant child will be able to see, and you will see — and the Chabad chasid from again. The doctors said this child has derive much pleasure from this child the slaughterhouse arranged a proper a high chance of being born blind as and from all your children, including circumcision. well, and they advised an abortion.” those that have not been blessed with the gift of sight.” Very many years later I learned that “I didn’t know what to do,” he this boy became Torah observant, as continued, “it seemed to me, on the When he finished telling me this, did his sisters. And I don’t doubt that one hand, that we have a high chance I said, “Now I understand — I was the same Rebbe who sent me to this of having another blind child, which sent here tonight as the Rebbe’s forgotten family in the Bronx before we just couldn’t handle. On the other emissary to reinforce his message he was born is still blessing this entire hand, what if that child would be able to you.” family today. to see? Would we be killing a totally healthy baby? That’s what I told the I have no words to explain this Chabad chasid who, hearing my story, man’s reaction — the tears were suggested that I write to the Rebbe.” just streaming down his face.
This man had no idea who the Rebbe Then I walked home through the
MANDATE UNMASKED
AS IMPOSSIBLE AS IT SOUNDS, AS ABSURD AS IT MAY SEEM: THE MANDATE OF DARKNESS IS TO BECOME LIGHT; THE MANDATE OF A BUSY, MESSY WORLD IS TO FIND ONENESS.
WE HAVE PROOF: FOR THE GREATER THE DARKNESS BECOMES AND THE GREATER THE CONFUSION OF LIFE, THE DEEPER OUR SOULS REACH INWARD TO DISCOVER THEIR OWN ESSENCE-CORE.
18 STORIES WITH SOUL smile, ‘though I guess you won’t enjoy abstaining “Aaahh! Oyyy! Where am I? Ooiy vai!” he from your foul vodka for eight days...’ SHMERL’S SEDER screamed, and then his wife was heard By Tuvia Bolton shouting, “Get up you drunk! The Rebbe has “’Eight days!’ I cried. ‘Why? Why can’t I drink for come to punish you! Wake up, you good-for- eight days?’ I was trembling and beginning to t was well past midnight on the first night of Passover, remember a little. and the great Chassidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of nothing!” Berdichev had just concluded enacting the Passover Poor Shmerl staggered, sopping wet, to the “’Because that’s the law!’ he answered. ‘For eight ISeder in the presence of his disciples. They had recited door. When he saw that it really was the Rebbe days, if you’re a Jew, no chametz (leaven) passes the Haggadah, recounting the story of the Exodus and standing there at his door in the middle of the your lips. Vodka is chametz. If you can’t hold out for discussing the deeper meanings implicit in each of its night, he fell at Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s feet and eight days, maybe go to Israel,’ he laughed, ‘there passages; they drank the four cups of wine, dipped the began weeping, “Please, Rebbe don’t punish chametz is only forbidden seven days...’ karpas in the salt water and the bitter herbs in charoset, me. It’s not my fault... I didn’t know any better... ate the matzah, the korech and the afikoman, sang Please, have mercy...” “I was stunned. No vodka for eight days! I rushed the psalms of praise and gratitude — all in accordance home, took all the money I had, bought a big bottle with the letter of the Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish The Rebbe of Berdichev was completely of vodka, poured myself eight large cups one after Law) and the esoteric principles found in the awesome astounded at this bizarre scene. Could it be that the other, and drank them down... hoping that that mystical works of the saintly “Ari”. this man’s seder was loftier than his own? would help me make it through the holiday. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s disciples had participated in He bent down, lifted poor Shmerl to his feet “The next thing I remember is that I’m sleeping many of their Rebbe’s seders in the past, but this one and said, “Listen, Shmerl, I didn’t come to soundly in my bed when suddenly my wife throws surpassed them all. The Rebbe and all those present felt punish you. In fact I don’t even know what you a bucket of water on me — you saw how she does transported into a different world, as though they had are talking about. Please let me in, let’s sit down it — and starts screaming, ‘Shmerl, you bum! You risen above their bodily limitations and into a world of and talk. I only want to ask you something. Go drunk! You good-for-nothing! All Jews all over the pure G‑dliness. put on a dry shirt and we’ll talk.” world are making the seder tonight, and you are Minutes later they sat facing each other over lying there like a drunken ox. Wake up and make Suddenly the room filled with the sound of a deep a seder!’ rumbling like thunder, and from within the thunder an Shmerl’s small table. The Rebbe looked at him awesome voice announced: “Levi Yitzchak’s seder was kindly and said: “Shmerl, listen. I want you to “So I staggered to my feet, put on some dry clothes pleasing to G‑d, but there is a Jew in Berdichev called tell me how you conducted your seder last and sat down at the beautifully set table. Shmerl the Tailor whose seder reached even higher!” night. Don’t worry, I promise that I’m not going to punish you, I promise.” “The candles were shining brightly and making the The Rebbe looked around him. It was obvious that only plates and silverware sparkle so nicely. Everything he had heard the heavenly announcement. “Oy!” moaned Shmerl and began weeping was new, clean. I felt so different, almost holy. again. “My seder! But Rebbe, I really didn’t The wine and the matzos were on the table, the “Has anyone heard of a tzaddik (righteous person) know any better... Oooy!” Haggadah was open in front of me. My wife had called Shmerl the Tailor?” he asked his Chassidim. No even set up the seder plate with all its things like one had. Gradually he calmed down and began speaking. “Early this morning, that is... yesterday morning, she remembered from her father. She herself was After several minutes of silence one of the elderly I’m walking in the street and suddenly I notice sitting in her place opposite me like a queen, and Chassidim offered: “There is one Shmerl here in that people are rushing about. This one has a was even smiling. Everything was so beautiful. Berdichev that I know of, and he used to be a tailor broom over his shoulder, that one is carrying a “But then — I looked around me and didn’t know about thirty years ago, but he’s certainly no tzaddik. In box, the other one something else, everyone is what to do. The vodka was still swirling in my head, fact he’s pretty far from that. They call him now ‘Shmerl scurrying about — except me. but, to be honest, Rebbe, even sober I don’t know the Shikker’ (drunkard) and he lives with his wife in an how to make a seder. old shack on the edge of town.” “So I stopped someone I recognized and asked him, ‘What is everyone rushing for? Where are “So I took a large bowl, and put everything in But Rabbi Levi Yitchak was thinking to himself, “Ahah! they all going?’ there. The three matzos, the bitter herbs, the dish this must be one of the hidden tzaddikim. And he lives “So he answers me, ‘Oy Shmerl, are you so of charoset, all those little items my wife had set right here, in Berdichev, while I knew nothing about up on the seder plate, I poured in the four cups of him!” drunk that you forgot that tonight is Pesach? Tonight is Pesach! Do you remember what wine, and swirled it all together. It was two o’clock in the morning when the Rebbe stood Pesach is?’ “Then I lifted up my seder bowl and started talking at the door of old Shmerl’s hovel. “I tried thinking but my mind wouldn’t work. to G‑d. Just like I’m talking to you now. I started An old Jewish woman answered his soft knock. “Good Pesach, Pesach, I... I can’t remember. It sounds talking to G‑d and I said, ‘G‑d, listen... I don’t know Yom Tov!” said Rabbi Levi Yitzchak quietly. “Please very important though; I remember something You, but You know me. You know that after my excuse me for the late hour. Is your husband Shmerl at about Matzos... and Egypt. ‘Please,’ I begged father got killed I had to work all the time and I home?” “Good Yom Tov,” She answered. “Just wait one the man, ‘do me a favor and tell me what it is never had a chance to learn, right? So I don’t know minute please, Rebbe, wait right here.” again.’ how to read this book, in fact I can’t read anything! And I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with all She disappeared into the house, and the unmistakable “The man looked at me in a strange way, and this stuff either. But one thing I do know... I know sound of a bucket being filled with water was heard answered ‘Listen, Shmerl, tonight you have to that a long time ago You sent Moses to take us out from inside. Then a minute or two of silence and make a seder. You know, recite the Haggadah, of Egypt, and I’m sure that you will send Moshiach suddenly... SPLASH! She threw the bucket of water on eat three matzos, bitter herbs, four cups of wine. to take us out of all our troubles now!’ her sleeping husband. You’ll enjoy the wine Shmerl,’ he said with a sad “And then I gulped down the whole thing.” 19 HOW LAST YEAR’S ‘CORONA PASSOVER’ SPURRED JEWISH LIFE IN PORTLAND
Last-minute Seders-to-Go became a year-long program of acts of kindness By Aharon Loschak
As the global Jewish community turns the corner of a full year’s worth of pandemic-style Jewish engagement, Passover is here to greet us once again. While last year may have required many to scramble and pivot with creative and ingenious ways to adapt during the holidays to a quarantined reality, this year the holiday comes upon more experienced and battle- tested warriors. In some ways, the creativity and life experiences have transformed what could have been a devastating blow into a period of Jewish growth.
Looking back to their efforts last year’s “Corona level,” says Benedict. “The rabbi tells me institutions downsizing or shutting down, and Passover,” Rabbi Chaim Wilhelm and Mushka that my challahs have helped grow the the continuous slog without any in-person Wilhelm of Chabad of North East Portland say community, and I believe him.” programming putting a serious drain and that it was precisely the pandemic that pushed damper on everyone, a boon to the community their usual efforts to burgeon into something The Portland ‘Chessed hardly seems likely. But thankfully, that’s far greater—a “Chessed Connection” program Connection’ precisely what’s happening. of acts of kindness performed by community After distributing “Seder-to-Go” kits last members that has boosted Jewish engagement year prior to Passover, the rabbi realized “About four years back, I traveled to Houston throughout the city. how lonely, anxious and generally cut to help with the relief efforts there after off from each other people were, and Hurricane Harvey, and I remember thinking Sharon Benedict now goes by the moniker the simple gesture of showing up at how incredible it would be to have such aide “Challah Mamma” and speaks personally of this their doorstep (with safety precautions infrastructure here in Portland,” said Wilhelm. phenomenon. “Two years ago, I asked Mushka in place, of course) was a literal lifeline. “We actually started the ‘Chessed Connection’ if she would teach me how to make challah, For some, in addition to the personal back then, but it was much more sporadic. But and from then on, I started baking challah every connection, the food and care packages with the onset of the coronavirus, it really took week,” she said. “Prior to the pandemic, I would were, in fact, necessary commodities to off.” take my challah to the local street fairs and simply get by. sell them at a table there together with Rabbi Today, there are 20 volunteers who not only Chaim and Mushka. It was a great way to bring “It was the beginning days of the deliver the food packages, but also shop for the people into the community.” pandemic, and I realized that I can’t sit supplies and then package them in Wilhelm’s and wait for ‘others’ to provide solutions backyard. Of course, she’ll be taking a break from her or prognoses,” said Wilhelm. “Instead, challah-baking during Passover—observed this I would have to be part of the solution, “When Rabbi Wilhelm called me and asked year from Saturday night, March 27 through the response. So, I galvanized volunteers me to get involved, I said, ‘Challah, tzedakah, Sunday, April 4— but at this point, Benedict from around the community and off we volunteering—it’s a no-brainer!’ ” Dan Gerber, is baking 32 challahs a week. And that’s in were, distributing packages all around who generously contributes financial support addition to more than 50challahs a week that Portland’s Inner East Side.” to the project, told Chabad.org. “We’ve been Mushka Wilhelm is baking each week at home. talking about it, and for the foreseeable future, All in all, a vast network of volunteers reach An important element of this entire I see no reason to stop the efforts. We all need nearly 100 people every week, from a rotating operation is the surprising reality community, that personal connection, so much. list of 300. it has created—not just dodging the To get a fresh homemade challah and some pandemic bullet, but utilizing it to chicken soup brings a smile to people’s faces “My challah-baking has taken on a whole new grow the community. With so many and literally makes their week. 20 Chaim was tutoring my son for his bar school that is operating in limited capacity per mitzvah,” Rebecca Dake of Portland told Oregon’s health guidelines. Chabad.org. It’s much the same story with the others “When the pandemic struck, our local involved—that sense of purpose doing synagogue closed down, along with something so necessary and helpful is all the everything else. For my teenage children, difference between a month at home going the extended quarantine really got to stir crazy or an energized few weeks doing them,” she said. “It was emotionally something for the greater good. “What I like about it so much is that it’s so simple crippling, and like many other children and affordable. Nothing fancy or complicated— their age, it was causing anxiety and As Rebecca put it: “This is the type of outreach just a simple dose of Chabad hospitality—but stress. I reached out to Chaim to see if that others are simply not doing, and it’s so it goes such a long way to keep people feeling there was anything he could do. critical, both for those who receive it and those connected,” he said. who give it. After all, when we help others, “He immediately responded, inviting we’re really helping ourselves even more.” “I very much enjoy being part of Chabad,” the children to his backyard where Sharon said. “I love helping the community they were doing a socially-distanced grow, and being around the rabbi and his wife.” volunteer packaging effort.”
Dake described how that the chance Lending Purpose to Teens to do something meaningful and Beyond the love and care these packages bring purposeful during this time was exactly to their recipients, they serve a vital function for what her children needed. And when the volunteers themselves. her elder daughter was looking to get involved even more, Chaim and Mushka “Our family’s connection with Rabbi Chaim and drafted her to the cause: She now serves Mushka started before the pandemic began as as a teacher’s aide in their Hebrew
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SOFT AND CHEWY NOUGAT PREPARATION By Tamar Genger 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Prepare an 8- x 8-inch baking pan with rice paper INGREDIENTS or parchment paper sprayed with cooking spray. Nonstick vegetable oil spray 2. Spread nuts on baking sheet and toast for about 10 minutes at 350°F. Set aside to cool. 1 cup nuts (I used whole almonds) ½ cup sugar 3. Combine sugar, honey, and water in a small, deep heavy saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Attach a candy thermometer to the ½ cup honey side of the pan. Increase heat and boil until thermometer registers 280°F, 2 tablespoons water about 3 to 5 minutes. 1 large egg white, room temperature 4. At the same time, beat egg white and salt in a stand mixer fitted with a pinch kosher salt whisk attachment until soft peaks form. With the mixer running slowly, very carefully stream hot syrup into egg whites. Beat until meringue is thick and ¾ cup dried fruit (I used dried cherries) has cooled slightly, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the bowl from the mixer and add dried fruit and toasted nuts, or even chocolate chips, to meringue; mix nougat with a rubber spatula to distribute evenly.
5. Place nougat on the prepared pan, spreading in an even layer. Top with second sheet of rice paper or sprayed parchment. Use spatula to press the nougat into an even layer. Let nougat set at room temperature for at least 2 hours, but overnight is best.
6. Cut with a knife and store in an airtight container for 2 to 3 days. Nougat can also be kept in freezer for a month.
30 FRENCH CONNECTION REFLEXIONS SUR LA PARACHA Vivre avec la paracha Le chemin boueux
’Il avait ouvert la mer pour nous, mais ne nous avait pas fait traverser sur une Sterre sèche, cela nous aurait suffi. (Haggadah de Pessa’h)
Les lignes que vous venez de lire sont extraites du chant « Dayénou » dans lequel nous énumérons, lors du Séder de Pessa’h, conscients. Mais simultanément, nous désirons véritablement ! les quinze bienfaits que D.ieu nous dispensa habitons un monde « caché », un monde quand Il nous libéra d’Égypte et nous choisit de penchants et de désirs subconscients, Ceci, explique la ‘Hassidout, est la pour être Son Peuple. Nous remercions de vérités connues de manière innée et de signification spirituelle du « partage de la D.ieu pour chacun de Ses actes séparément, convictions profondes qui voient rarement mer ». Quand D.ieu ouvrit la Mer Rouge, Il reconnaissant chacun comme unique et sinon jamais le jour. ouvrit également « toutes les eaux du monde particulier. C’est pourquoi nous disons : « S’Il », depuis les mers physiques de la terre nous avait fait sortir d’Égypte, mais n’avait Les enseignements cabalistiques et jusqu’aux mers individuelles de chaque âme, pas puni (les Égyptiens), cela nous aurait ‘hassidiques se référent à ces deux y compris la mer cosmique qui diffuse les suffi... S’Il nous avait nourri de la Manne mondes comme la réalité de notre « terre plus profonds secrets de la Création. Selon mais ne nous avait pas donné le Chabbat, » et de notre « mer ». Sur terre, les choses les mots du Psalmiste : D.ieu « transforma la cela nous aurait suffi... » etc. sont au grand jour, à tel point qu’elles mer en terre sèche; ils traversèrent la rivière paraissent souvent déconnectées de leur à pied ». Ce qui d’ordinaire est submergé et Bien des commentateurs de la Haggadah environnement et de leur source de vie (en inaccessible devint manifeste et tangible, sont étonnés par ce texte : qu’est-ce que cela regardant une foule d’hommes d’affaire bien et traverser les profondeurs de son âme fut signifie que cela nous aurait suffi que D.ieu habillés avançant sur les trottoirs d’une ville comme marcher sur la terre ferme. ouvre la mer pour nous, mais ne nous fasse en pleine effervescence, on a du mal à croire pas traverser sur la terre sèche ? Quel aurait qu’ils tirent leur nourriture de la terre). Dans Après que « les enfants d’Israël furent passés été le but d’ouvrir la mer si ce ne fut pour la mer, tout est immergé et caché. Au mieux, à travers la mer sur la terre ferme », les eaux nous permettre de la traverser et d’échapper nous pouvons apercevoir des ombres de ce reprirent leur cours naturel. De nouveau ainsi à la poursuite des armées de Pharaon ? qui se passe près de la surface ; de ce qui se le monde marin fut obscurci, de nouveau cache sous l’eau, nous ne voyons rien du tout. le subconscient devint un lieu mystérieux De plus, les quinze actes énumérés par et secret. Mais il y avait eu un précédent, l’auteur de la Haggadah dans Dayénou Que se passe-t-il au niveau de l’individu qui un potentiel implanté dans nos âmes. Plus ne constituent pas simplement une liste est lui aussi une création en soi ? Il existe les jamais la mer ne serait impénétrable, plus de miracles accomplis par D.ieu dans le « mondes révélés » qui incluent les réalités jamais ce qui est caché dans l’homme et processus de l’Exode (dans lequel il y en eut matérielles et physiques de même que ces ce qui est révélé ne constitueraient deux beaucoup d’autres), mais un développement réalités spirituelles qui sont révélées et mondes séparés hermétiquement. majeur dans l’histoire Juive : l’Exode lui- accessibles pour nous. Mais au-delà de même, l’ouverture de la Mer Rouge, la Manne, cette « terre » réside la mer mystérieuse, les Avec Son ouverture des mers, D.ieu nous le Don de la Torah, l’entrée en Terre Sainte, strates surnaturelles de la création. donna la force de pénétrer nos mers la construction du Beth Hamikdach, ces individuelles de tracer des chemins de terre faits ont eu un impact profond sur nos vies Bien de la douleur et de la frustration sèche sur le sol des océans de nos âmes. comme Juifs jusqu’à aujourd’hui-même. Quel dans nos vies viennent du fossé entre le Il nous donna ainsi la force de manifester est donc le véritable sens de la traversée de côté « terre » et le côté « mer » de notre notre moi caché dans notre vie quotidienne. la Mer Rouge « sur la terre sèche » ? personnalité. Si seulement nous pouvions Et Il transforma la mer en terre sèche, concilier notre vie révélée et notre moi nous permettant d’aspirer à une synthèse La plongée sous-marine autonome inconscient ! Si seulement nous pouvions complète entre notre essence spirituelle et Chacun de nous habite dans deux mondes, reconnaître notre véritable volonté et notre caractère terrestre. des mondes qui sont aussi éloignés l’un de découvrir nos aspirations les plus profondes l’autre que deux mondes peuvent l’être. L’un ; si seulement les innombrables choix est la partie « révélée » de notre existence que nous faisons chaque jour dans notre : notre profession, notre famille et notre existence terrestre pouvaient refléter ce vie sociale, nos pensées et nos sentiments que nous sommes réellement et ce que nous 31 LATIN LINK REFLEXION SEMANAL Parasha de la Semana El Síndrome del Faraón ¿Por qué nos preocupamos? Porque no Por Tzvi Freeman percibimos los milagros. ¿Por qué no percibimos los milagros? Porque vemos la marcha del a gente se ríe de los términos y eufemismos orden natural a nuestro alrededor, y si hay un modernos que usan los psicólogos, pero a orden natural, los milagros no pueden suceder, Lmenudo me pregunto si a veces no sería ¿verdad? ¡Después de todo, los milagros bueno utilizarlos para tratar los asuntos de la significan que las leyes de naturaleza se han Torá. Por ejemplo, los cuatro hijos de la Hagadá eliminado temporalmente, y que la vida se pone de Pesaj, podrían entenderse mejor como el totalmente anómala, y la voz de Di-s brama: hijo Dotado, el Niño Con Dificultades, el Niño “¡toma nota! “¡Esto es un milagro!”. Equilibrado y el Niño con Déficit Inquisitivo. Esos términos intolerantes como “Profanador Error. Ése es el Faraón otra vez. Quizás un poco del Sagrado Shabat” podrían suavizar su más sutil, pero no obstante Faraón. terminología por “quién sufre un déficit en el comportamiento Sabático”. Estoy seguro que se Monoteísmo significa que el orden natural no puede aplicar en muchos otros casos... “quien es un juego absolutas de reglas para jugar o posee un déficit Jasídico”, etcétera. para romper. Creer que hay Una Fuerza Infinita detrás de todas las cosas, significa reconocer Hay también algunos aspectos importantes de que Él puede encontrarse haciendo Sus cosas la historia del Éxodo que podrían entenderse ignorar la realidad obvia que se halla ante sus en cualquier parte, de acuerdo a las reglas o no. mejor si usásemos la terminología psicológica. ojos en favor del concepto del mundo del orden Nada lo detiene en conseguir Su camino, ningún Tomemos el evento de la partida del Mar Rojo natural que ya ha integrado previamente en su comité supervisor, ninguna junta de apelación, que ocurrió en el séptimo día de Pesaj. Es fácil personalidad. Esto podría resultar finalmente, en ningún accionista, ninguna suegra. Ni siquiera el burlarse del Faraón cuando consideramos los ahogarse bajo las olas del Mar Rojo. Orden Natural. hechos superficialmente. Él ve a un pueblo conducido por un pilar de fuego, caminando Ahora que he proporcionado una visión más ¿La prognosis? Según los profetas, estamos sobre el fondo seco del mar, entre dos pilares simpática de las dificultades personales del muy preparados para esto. Como leemos en de agua, inmovilizados como paredes de piedra Faraón, se hace más fácil entenderlo. Después la Haftará en el último día de Pesaj: “Como en (incluso Indiana Jones lo habría pensado dos de todo, hacemos lo mismo que él todo el los días en que salimos de Egipto, te haré ver veces) y como un loco corre hacia adentro con tiempo. Se trata de la “Angustia” milagros”. (Isaías 10:32) todo su ejército. Y no es que no tuviera algún precedente del cual aprender. La angustia es un estado en el que ignoramos Rabí Menajem Mendl de Lubavitch (el “Tzemaj la realidad obvia y percibida, en favor de Tzedek,” 1745-1826) explicó, “Como en los días Podríamos pensar que al Faraón “le faltaba la pervertida, improbable visión de cómo cuando ustedes apuntaron al Mar Rojo que se un tornillo”. El Faraón era, sin embargo, imaginamos que debe ser el orden natural. Nos abría y dijeron, ‘¡Éste es mi Di-s que hace esto! intelectualmente cuerdo. Sólo que sufría de un figuramos nuestra vida como un forcejeo entre Como entonces, en estos tiempos, les permitiré “Síndrome de déficit de Monoteísmo”. nuestra propia competencia y las leyes de la ver milagros más maravillosos aún, de los que física, comercio y aceptación social. Eso significa suceden diariamente en vuestras vidas.” Para ser más específico, el Faraón pertenecía que tenemos mucho de qué preocuparnos. a un subconjunto de cuestionadores del La realidad obvia es que nuestra vida diaria Abramos nuestras mentes e intentemos de monoteísmo que poseen una fijación con el está llena de milagros que vienen desde nuevo. orden natural percibido (“Ma’at” en el egipcio Arriba. Tenemos muy poco control sobre dónde Antiguo. Similar al concepto budista de terminamos y lo que tenemos que hacer ahí. La Karma. En idioma moderno, “Física”). Cuando física no tiene mucho que decir. Podemos hacer aparece un conflicto entre el orden natural y lo mejor que podemos con cualquier cosa que se la realidad percibida (es decir, un milagro), el nos ha dado y tener confianza en el Director de sujeto experimenta ansiedad. Esta ansiedad Todo, que Él sabe lo que está haciendo. podría resolverse fácilmente, a través de la Pero en cambio, nos preocupamos. aceptación de una Fuerza Omnipotente y más allá de la naturaleza, nuestro sujeto prefiere 32 PLEASE READ ONLY NETWORKING AFTER SHABBOS EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING
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