Writing
The Winter of our Discontent
If we were to compare the seasons of the year to the ages of man, which age would winter represent?"Old age," you would say. Winter connotes the chill of rapidly receding years and ultimate death. Winter's snow covers the world with a white and aging head. In every language, winter symbolizes old age. every language, that is, except one. In hebrew, the word for "winter," choref, can also connote the hidden burgeoning of youth into maturity.
The Tree of Heaven
More than anything, life is about distinguishing the essence from the nonsense.This world is no more than the wrapping that conceals a vast gift. The wrapping is important - you can only get to the gift through the wrapping - but it's all too easy to get sidetracked by the beautiful wrapping and throw away the gift.
Not Written In Stone
Don't you sometimes feel like your life is written in stone - that you can't change? Sometimes, we want to go back to a more innocent time - a time when we were pure and our hearts unsullied. But we feel we can't break the mold we're stuck in. We've created a treadmill from past bad decisions, and now we seem doomed to run like a rat around and around...visiting and revisiting all the mistakes we've ever made.
The Month of Shevat
The sign of the Jewish People is Aquarius the Pitcher. Just as the purpose of a pitcher is to be a vessel to carry water, so the purpose of the Jewish People is to be the "Water Carrier" - the vessel of the living waters of the Torah.
