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Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Chukas-Balak 5783. Темы: wigs_headcovering, relationships_shalom_bayit. Поисковые термины: парик, парики, косынка, покрытие головы, wig, wigs, head covering, sheitel, tichel, פאה, פאות, כיסוי ראש, מטפחת, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות. Looking Up: The Meaning behind the Snake on the Pole Rabbi YY Jacobson 8 Tamuz 5775 No Complaining After seventy years of communist oppression and seven hours of flying, Boris, a burly immigrant from Moscow steps off the plane in a free land to begin his new life in his new home, Israel. The reporter asks with focus: “Tell me, what was life back in Russia like?” To which the Russian immigrant replies: “I couldn’t complain.” An obviously unexpected answer, the young reporter continues to probe: “Well how were your living quarters there?” To which the Russian responds “I couldn’t complain.” Not expecting this answer either, the reporter decides to hit him with a question that is bound to get the answer he is looking for: “What about your standard of living?” To which the Russian replies again: “I couldn’t complain.” At this point, the reporter’s frustration with the new immigrant’s answers reaches a crescendo, and so in a derogatory tone the reporter yells out, “Well, if everything was so wonderful back in Russia, then why did you even bother to come here?” To which the new immigrant replies with gusto: “Oh, here I can complain!” The Serpents It is a strange biblical episode -- in this week’s portion of Chukas. And the answer is this: “Rather, when Israel would gaze upward and bind their hearts to their Father in Heaven, they would be healed; and if not, they would https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/2498/print-view 1/3 6/30/23, 7:31 PM TheYeshiva.net perish." Fixing their eyes on the snake alone would not yield any cure; it was looking upward toward G-d, it was the relationship with G-d, which brought the cure. The Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), who had three Jewish grandparents and was considered by many to be one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, once said that his aim as a philosopher was, "to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle." The fly keeps banging its head against the glass in a vain attempt to get out. Those painful events moved us from the surface to the depths, challenging us to https://www.

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The Yeshiva.net

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30 июня 2023 г.

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Темы: wigs_headcovering, relationships_shalom_bayit