Life is the sum of these three elements. To live is to develop and optimize one’s consciously understood faculties. To live is to be receptive to the mysteries of life, to learn to recognize and respond to the opportunities implicit in the most esoteric turns of fate. And to live is to be attuned to the core of truth in the core of one’s soul—to one’s heritage as a child of G-d.
To read more: http://www.chabad.org/parshah/in-depth/default_cdo/aid/49232/jewish/In-Depth.htm
From the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s interpritation of the following verse from this week’s parsha, Pinchas:
To the more numerous you shall increase their inheritance, and to the fewer you shall lessen their inheritance… Nevertheless the land shall be divided by lot… whether many or few (26:54-55).
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Posted on Friday July 15th
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