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Try ignoring your wife for a week. She won't let you. Try ignoring your
husband, your children, your friends -- it's not possible. You depend on each
other, your lives are intertwined Try ignoring your parents. Not only is it possible -- it often feels right and necessary. After all, they let you do it. They encourage you to. They even seem to want you to.
Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 Torah Reading for Week of August 12-18, 2001 
About two mountains, from which blessings and curses are announced; a home for G-d, and the difference between holiness and chosenness; meat and blood; and false prophets, idolaters, kosher signs, tithes and pilgrimages.
"Tommy, what do you what to be when you grow up?""Possible" Tommy replied. "Possible?" asked the teacher. "Yes" Tommy said. "My Mom is always telling me I’m impossible. So when I get to be big I want to be possible"
There are similarities between the Freudian model of the human psyche and that
described by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi in his Tanya. Both reveal that
the key to human emotion and behavior lies in the mind. Both discuss the human
as a multi-layered consciousness, with many forces pulling in different
directions. However, where Freud sees the underlying force within man as his
sexual drive, the Tanya sees it as his G-dly soul. That's a major difference
with serious impact.
When the Chassidim heard the story they took up a collection and bought her
a round-trip train ticket with enough money for a month's room and board. Two days
later there she was, standing bewildered in the
Warsaw train station with her old suitcase and no idea where to go or what
to do next.People were rushing by her, someone almost knocked her over, but she just stood there. She had the address of a hotel on a crumpled piece of paper in her hand. "The children are in good hands", she thought to herself, as someone else bumped into her. "Maybe I’ll just go back home." |
 The Parshah in a Nutshell
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