Saturday, May 16, 2009

Torah Study Tweets 5-16-09


  1. You control your future! What are the limits of control? You are the center of the universe!
  2. There's negative power to guilt but also positive. I am responsible! Taking owning life! Not allowing random happenings.
  3. The power of the blessings and the power of the curse...not either or but both together. What continues is the hope! Natural consequences.
  4. And you I shall scatter among the nations...and your cities to ruin. What choice do we have? To obey w fear? Perhaps there more here...
  5. "You will lose all your teeth but your remaining one will have a toothache" Naomi Levy
  6. ...your roads shall be deserted. What is the collective fallout? What is our community illness? Can't we just let go? Loosen up?
  7. Physical curses & spiritual curses... Rashi- its punishment for not studying Torah, not for following Gods jubilee.
  8. If you want eggs you have to 1st shoo away the chicken. Is that true? No not always true. Who van be happy? ones who are happy w what has
  9. How can you have so much but be so empty?
  10. But if you reject my laws...you shall flee but none will pursue. Ouch. You can't escape it. bitten by a snake now afraid of rope.
  11. What of Gods disillusionment ? The permission is there for us to screw up. "I will walk among you" the greater the light the greater shadow
  12. "I will look on you with favor"...is this a blessing or a curse? Gods watching... I will multiply you but give you dignity (Rashi)
  13. There's magic in the disillusionment though...
  14. The vision of the future. Is it magical or mundane? The promise of magic..what of the disillusionment?
  15. Is it true? Isn't it illusuonal? Ie it rally true that if you're good that good thins will follow-no. Is this really a way to control us?
  16. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword...Rashi says peace is the most - more than bread more than health.
  17. In the sceam of things- its the right time. Offers hope. When things aren't going well, tell me a story of rains of fruits of bread...
  18. Like a parent having "the talk"
  19. Follow my laws...and dwell security in your land. Still so far from their land though. They need to be told anyway how to act properly 1st.
  20. Leviticus 26:3-27:34. Both the blessing & the curse give us hope...
  21. Her Q's what is the power of a promise. Of a threat. Of a curse. Of a blessing? What does this say about Israel? What can I learn from this
  22. Torah study with Rabbi Naomi Levy visiting Temple Israel. ...talking about curses... Shama leaves out 2nd vrs here..why is this here?

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