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Here's what I wrote last year on Ki Tissa. And here's a post from that same weekend, one year ago today on the Jewish calendar (I think I'd like to change the "my" in the last line of the haiku to "a").
Uri asked where Rabbi Twerski wrote the ideas I cited in his name. I couldn't find it. He just came out wit a new book, The Sun Will Shine Again. He writes the same ideas, based on Rav Chaim Shmuelewitz, addressing the downfall of The Eigel and applying it to our life today (pages 13-14). It's a beautiful, little book that I picked up at the Y.U. seforim sale for $7.19.
A friend of mine shared the following with me and gave me permission to post it. At some point I'd like to expand. I find this to be quite profound.
My son X has an airplane that is tied to a string and connected to the ceiling. You turn on the string and the plane gathers momentum, goes very fast, and flies in a circle. Very cool. However….. with all that speed and energy, the plane in the end only goes in a circle because it is tied to the ceiling.
Bnei Yisrael, with all their energy and excitement upon leaving Mitzrayim end up going no where. Long after they leave, they are still “in Mitzrayim” serving the idol of the Eigel. In many ways, they were right back where they started!
Who among us does not have “strings attached”? Even though we work hard, we go no where because we’re still tied to something, some idea that prevents them from breaking that string and really flying.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 11:59 PM
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I like Nissen Alpert's vort. I think I'll incorporate it when I speak at Shabbos sheva berachos. I would add this: The pasuk says: בתבנית שור אוכל עשב, the likeness of a cow that eats grass. Acc. to his derash, what's the point of "a likeness?" Answer: They too understood that a person is ruchani, but they wanted to act differently, to subordinate the soul and remake themselves in the likeness of a beast. In other words, they knew it's not really so, but were pushed by desire to act as if it was.
Nice. I added in your vort when I told this over on Shabbos (bust wasn't able to hasten the geulah to the olam...)
Not a problem. I too was not in a setting where I could mention a blog source (although I believe the Chazon Ish says somewhere that מביא גאולה does not require one to mention the person from whom he heard the vort of another).
how does the chazon ish explain besheim omro?
i could have mentioned a blog, just would have felt funny saying Kishke.
From what I remember, CZI says that if A tells B a vort in the name of C, then B need only mention C, the originator of the vort, but not A, who was only "mareh makom lo."
I definitely heard this over in the name of CZI, but I think I might have seen it inside once too.
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