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Eikev 5764 - August 6, 2004

Heels

Sometimes -- explained Rabbi Sholom DovBer -- like when a person is required to enter a tub of scalding water, the head will hesitate. It is the heels who plunge in and lead the way
Parshah
Eikev in a Nutshell
Moses describes Israel as a land flowing with milk and honey, describes the seven kinds of produce with which the land is blessed, and warns the nation about becoming haughty in the Promised Land.
Living
Black Leather Boxes

The mystery of the tefillin: black leather boxes containing parchment scrolls inscribed in meticulous accordance to the criterion of an ageless scribal art. Not to be read, but to be worn…
Reality Check

Consistently, the process repeated itself, until I resigned myself to the fact that my huge southern-facing window would remain empty of growing things. Then my mother gave me the cactus...
Story
Road Work

Near the park, we were forced to detour via a parallel street. At the next traffic light, the Rebbetzin said to me: “I heard a woman screaming. Can you go back and see what that was about?”
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Man does not live on bread alone, but by the utterance of G-d's mouth does man live
— Deuteronomy 8:3
Print Magazine

Looking at your world from Above, all is good.

Looking at your world from within, things don’t always look so nice.

Until you connect your world below to the world above. Then the goodness flows downward without distortion.

How do you make that connection? By clinging tightly above.

By putting all your trust in G‑d.

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