Splitting Atoms!: "Yud-Beis Tammuz Fabrengen
to celebrate the
Release of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe
on this special day.
Tuesday night July 15th, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Aharon Moshe's Notebook
Aharon Moshe's Notebook
...to provide my readers with deepest and most esoteric understanding of this parsha. There may indeed be deeper and more literal based interpretations that are already out there on the Internet. My intention is to provide links to these works after my work is completed and has been successfully uploaded to the Internet.
The life we are all living is by default the only single reference point that we have. In order to develop a rudimentary understanding of parsha chukas we have to expand our point of reference, via analogy...
AhMnDvd July 3, 2008 on Parshas Chukas
http://thewirterscafe.org/chukas
...to provide my readers with deepest and most esoteric understanding of this parsha. There may indeed be deeper and more literal based interpretations that are already out there on the Internet. My intention is to provide links to these works after my work is completed and has been successfully uploaded to the Internet.
The life we are all living is by default the only single reference point that we have. In order to develop a rudimentary understanding of parsha chukas we have to expand our point of reference, via analogy...
AhMnDvd July 3, 2008 on Parshas Chukas
http://thewirterscafe.org/chukas
Chukas Pocus
Chukas Pocus by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
As chairman of the Senate appropriations committee, he could not understand why he should the administration was requesting some $2,000,000,000 towards certain unusual scientific research.
He called Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and began to shout.
'Do you expect me to sanction this tremendous appropriation without any idea as to where it is going!'
Stimson kept quiet. He pondered and hesitated, then he asked, 'Can you keep a secret?' After McKellar assured him that he could, Stimson whispered,
'We are about to split the atom.'
Selected from Rabbi Mordechai Kamentzky Drasha
Chukas Pocus
Volume 3 Issue 41
Linked by the title line above
Selected from the archives of torah.org by Aharon Moshe
Please visit my site for Chukas and more:
http://thewriterscafe.org/chukas.html
As chairman of the Senate appropriations committee, he could not understand why he should the administration was requesting some $2,000,000,000 towards certain unusual scientific research.
He called Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and began to shout.
'Do you expect me to sanction this tremendous appropriation without any idea as to where it is going!'
Stimson kept quiet. He pondered and hesitated, then he asked, 'Can you keep a secret?' After McKellar assured him that he could, Stimson whispered,
'We are about to split the atom.'
Selected from Rabbi Mordechai Kamentzky Drasha
Chukas Pocus
Volume 3 Issue 41
Linked by the title line above
Selected from the archives of torah.org by Aharon Moshe
Please visit my site for Chukas and more:
http://thewriterscafe.org/chukas.html
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Tree of Life!
Original Writing By Aharon Moshe Sanders
Torah Tree of life thought for the day:
The Torah as it was given to us the jewish nation by Hashem Elokim is perfect:
It is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and its supporters are praiseworthy. Its ways are ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace.
We say these words when we return the Torah to the ark. Very often even in casual conversation, or writing, people tend to remember only the last thing you said.
Maybe we should really at least think for a moment what the idea of grasping Eytz- Chayim really means. When we put the Torah away we might notice that we are surrounded by people. As followers of the Torah we support Ha-Torah, and the Torah supports as well with its ways, which are ways of pleasantness. I have heard it said, that it is not so much that we keep the sabbath, as it is that the sabbath keeps us.
It is so easy to forget how fortunate we truly are. We are able to keep the Torah and are not being threatened with loss of life, loss of income, loss of shelter, we need not fear persecution for our religous beliefs and customs. We can support Ha-Torah by embracing it, and we can be happy, because the ways of the Torah are ways of pleasantness.We should also recall that:
Hashem Elokim commanded the the man saying, "You may certainly eat from every tree in the Garden. But from the Tree of Knowledge of what is good and evil, you shall not eat from it, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die". (Bereeishis 2:16-2:17- The Metsudah Linear Chumash)
Refrainig from judgement is a difficult thing, it is very easy to find something wrong in others. When we see someone do something which perhaps we might consider as wrong, it is very simple to judge that person negatively. However when we do that, we bring ourselves up for judgement. We all fall short, we daven and pray for rachmanos (mercy) from Hashem. What ever we may be seeing in others, we may not even truly understand, yet it is very easy rush to judgement.
The whole element of din is best left to Hashem. Hashem has commanded us not to eat from the Tree of Knowldge of good and evil, and maybe each time we judge someone negatively or as evil, then just maybe as the pusek says- a little part of us- dies.
Aharon Moshe Sanders October, 18, 2007
(edited on 10/23/07)
Torah Tree of life thought for the day:
The Torah as it was given to us the jewish nation by Hashem Elokim is perfect:
It is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and its supporters are praiseworthy. Its ways are ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace.
We say these words when we return the Torah to the ark. Very often even in casual conversation, or writing, people tend to remember only the last thing you said.
Maybe we should really at least think for a moment what the idea of grasping Eytz- Chayim really means. When we put the Torah away we might notice that we are surrounded by people. As followers of the Torah we support Ha-Torah, and the Torah supports as well with its ways, which are ways of pleasantness. I have heard it said, that it is not so much that we keep the sabbath, as it is that the sabbath keeps us.
It is so easy to forget how fortunate we truly are. We are able to keep the Torah and are not being threatened with loss of life, loss of income, loss of shelter, we need not fear persecution for our religous beliefs and customs. We can support Ha-Torah by embracing it, and we can be happy, because the ways of the Torah are ways of pleasantness.We should also recall that:
Hashem Elokim commanded the the man saying, "You may certainly eat from every tree in the Garden. But from the Tree of Knowledge of what is good and evil, you shall not eat from it, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die". (Bereeishis 2:16-2:17- The Metsudah Linear Chumash)
Refrainig from judgement is a difficult thing, it is very easy to find something wrong in others. When we see someone do something which perhaps we might consider as wrong, it is very simple to judge that person negatively. However when we do that, we bring ourselves up for judgement. We all fall short, we daven and pray for rachmanos (mercy) from Hashem. What ever we may be seeing in others, we may not even truly understand, yet it is very easy rush to judgement.
The whole element of din is best left to Hashem. Hashem has commanded us not to eat from the Tree of Knowldge of good and evil, and maybe each time we judge someone negatively or as evil, then just maybe as the pusek says- a little part of us- dies.
Aharon Moshe Sanders October, 18, 2007
(edited on 10/23/07)
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Genius...Albert Einstein!
The first person to come to mind under the heading of genius would be Albert Einstein.
If he truly were an atheist, then why would he bring up G-d, in so many of his famous saying such as "I do not believe G-d would play dice with the Universe" (its not an exact quote).
Einstein was able to unlock the secret to how energy and matter are really different forms of the same thing. It does not take a Genius to look up to the heavenly constellations with a sense of awe. It does not take a genius to look down into the water depths, and feel a sense of wonder at living things that create and give off their own light!
So, one might ask, if scientists who believe in Hashem, are so well informed and knowledgeable in various areas, then where does the Rabbi fit in?
Then we must look to human relations to find the answer. To err is human, and adherence to a strict set of rules is not easy for everyone. Mistakes get made, intentions are misunderstood. Words are misquoted. Even silence can be misinterpreted.
Today every one's words, thought and actions can be reduced to what's known as soundbites. You can find so many things that are wrong in others. and take someone's words totally out of context. In issues regarding strict adherence to din, perhaps we should ask ourselves, why was the Eytz haDaat placed in the very center of Gan Eden, and why were we told not to eat of its fruit?
To err is human. To solve complex issues which perhaps even strict adherence of Halacha creates some sort of impossible situation then we depend on our Rabbis to issue (or poskin) a solution for us, that allows us to work out the issue in the most direct and simple method.
Even the great chess masters can make moves without truly perceiving every nuance of that choice's implications with regards to the dynamics of all the pieces. It takes an extremely perceptive mind to truly understand all the underpinnings involved in the various choices which one is faced with. Additionally it exteremely difficult to discover if there actually is a flaw in your opponents position.
When Adam ate of the Eytz HaDaas our entire outlook on life itself, had changed. We were told not to eat of the fruit, for on that day surely we will die. We (collectively) ate of the fruit, now it seems we didn't die... but what has happened to our objectivity?
(Taking the conclusion to a better page for such idea...)
If he truly were an atheist, then why would he bring up G-d, in so many of his famous saying such as "I do not believe G-d would play dice with the Universe" (its not an exact quote).
Einstein was able to unlock the secret to how energy and matter are really different forms of the same thing. It does not take a Genius to look up to the heavenly constellations with a sense of awe. It does not take a genius to look down into the water depths, and feel a sense of wonder at living things that create and give off their own light!
So, one might ask, if scientists who believe in Hashem, are so well informed and knowledgeable in various areas, then where does the Rabbi fit in?
Then we must look to human relations to find the answer. To err is human, and adherence to a strict set of rules is not easy for everyone. Mistakes get made, intentions are misunderstood. Words are misquoted. Even silence can be misinterpreted.
Today every one's words, thought and actions can be reduced to what's known as soundbites. You can find so many things that are wrong in others. and take someone's words totally out of context. In issues regarding strict adherence to din, perhaps we should ask ourselves, why was the Eytz haDaat placed in the very center of Gan Eden, and why were we told not to eat of its fruit?
To err is human. To solve complex issues which perhaps even strict adherence of Halacha creates some sort of impossible situation then we depend on our Rabbis to issue (or poskin) a solution for us, that allows us to work out the issue in the most direct and simple method.
Even the great chess masters can make moves without truly perceiving every nuance of that choice's implications with regards to the dynamics of all the pieces. It takes an extremely perceptive mind to truly understand all the underpinnings involved in the various choices which one is faced with. Additionally it exteremely difficult to discover if there actually is a flaw in your opponents position.
When Adam ate of the Eytz HaDaas our entire outlook on life itself, had changed. We were told not to eat of the fruit, for on that day surely we will die. We (collectively) ate of the fruit, now it seems we didn't die... but what has happened to our objectivity?
(Taking the conclusion to a better page for such idea...)
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