Whether it’s a giant sand dune or a strange, foreign land, new experiences are all about perspective. In Parshat Shlach Lecha, this too is Torah.
D'var from Friday, June 24th - Rabbi David Kosak and d'var from Saturday, June 25th - Rabbi David Kosak. Recorded and edited by Ed Kraus.
In 1941, on a small island 25 miles off the Italian coastline, two political prisoners would pen a secret manifesto that would come to define the next 75 years of European history. Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi looked in horror at the devastation of World War II, in which authoritarian regimes threatened the entire continent and beyond.
Life is often about making compromises. Sometimes we compromise because it’s the easiest solution. I work on one side of town, you work on the other, and we pick a place in the middle for coffee. Other times compromise means one person bends a little bit further than the other to make the situation work.
Don’t you kind of wish you had a protective cloud like the one described in Parshat Beha’alotcha following you and ushering in one phase after the next? Toddler phases too are Torah.
D'var from Friday, June 17th - Rabbi David Kosak and d'var from Saturday, June 18th - Rabbi David Kosak. Recorded and edited by Ed Kraus.
I snuck a couple of hours to watch the game with my kids last night. That's what I really want to write about--the Cleveland Cavaliers game last night. How the Cavs hung in there against the Warriors, fighting their way back to an even series. Of LeBron James, never the most elegant of players, yet a persistent and often unstoppable force of nature.
