https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah An international community of people engaged in learning Tanakh en-us 2022-01-06 15:03:16 UTC 2022-06-12 13:19:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1526214597/d33189433af6de9012137d740bb7800f/IMG_8491.jpg https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/1978901700 I love shmita. Heck yes. ]]> 2022-01-06 15:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/1978901700 https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2031954860 Great Torah study Elyssa, thank you a lot. Something Bruce mentioned about the unknowableness of the one light before they were divided into two, connecting to the unknowableness of Hashem, reminds me of this tension I felt throughout the perek between hierarchy/separation that I saw in להבדיל, ממשלת, and the anarchy/freedom I saw in למינהו, למינה. Perhaps a fundamental tension in the world? I see the separation echoed in Shabbat/week, Israel/the nations, maybe even Hashem/humans. The freedom is echoed perhaps in the connectedness of all living things? Day 6 seems to suggest that to me. Someone wiser than me let us know. -miranda ]]> 2022-02-07 00:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2031954860 LynnOlinger https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2032013374 As we're created בצלם אלקים, in G!d's image...what does that mean? I've grown to  like these beginning verses that give me a hint of the Divine's attributes:  intentional; values separation; methodical; organized; creative. And the creative part happened because of deliberate deconstruction:  separating and creating out of the primordial ooze. Thank you all for your perspectives today!]]> 2022-02-07 01:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2032013374 mbass10000 https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2036999009 Where did the last line of this Perek come from?? The man and woman were just created by Hashem…so where does talk of leaving parents and a man being one with a woman come from?]]> 2022-02-09 03:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2036999009 TalesTorahTells https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2045034339 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjvvZjy4v31AhXiV98KHWP9C6AQwqsBegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DAilDza95hYc&usg=AOvVaw2L8oworo1A-SO_or2PBJmQ]]> 2022-02-13 22:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2045034339 mbass10000 https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2049823826 Right at the end of parashat Bereishit verbs including  נ-ח are used several times - traditionally translated as being regretful. But Rashi brings an awesome midrash from Breishit Rabba that in fact the meaning in the first usage in pasuk vav is that Hashem was /comforted/ by creating humans on earth, because if they'd been created in the heavens they would have overthrown the place!! This interpretation gives additional color to the final pasuk, נח found favor in Hashem's eyes, a beautiful and tender phrase in Hebrew - the נח of regret and comfort at the same time. Thanks Rashi.]]> 2022-02-16 01:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2049823826 mbass10000 https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2049974073 After the trauma of the flood, Hashem vows never again to do such a thing. Organized time, marked by the agricultural cycle, was literally washed away, as pointedly articulated by the text's several references to the months and days in which Noach reached certain milestones in the flood. Weather too ceased, as there was only rain for wait appears to be in excess of 6 months. In addition to the absolute laying waste of the earth and living creatures, measuring and marking time was ripped away from humans, and probably day and night too, as the rain blotted out the sun and moon, warm and cold. And the particular use of שבת at the end of the pasuk and perek - this was a total שבת of the earth, but a nightmarish one - perhaps a connection to Shmitta here? The first Creation had a beautiful Shabbat, but this one is quite the opposite. Everything is complicated after Gan Eden.]]> 2022-02-16 02:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2049974073 mbass10000 https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2194142715 I'm curious as to why Hashem had to put Moshe through all of this at all, and why Hashem, especially later, chooses/needs prophets. Hashem was able to speak directly to plenty of people in בראשית and שמות and really חומש in general. Why does Hashem need to speak indirectly to Paroh here and, later, have prophets?]]> 2022-05-21 20:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2194142715 mbass10000 https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2218564248 I find it challenging that we sing this song to Hashem every shacharit - the first 2/3 are about praising Hashem for saving us, delivering us, redeeming us, and absolutely destroying our foes and pursuers, which is already graphic enough and focused enough on their violent drowning, and then we're also describing the terror Hashem's awesome power strikes in the hearts of those who live in The Land Hashem has promised us (dwellers in Plashet, Moav, Edom, Cnaan), as if they are evildoers - I guess they were immoral idolaters, but it feels hard to condemn them unlike Egypt because they weren't exactly given the chance to know morality or do the right thing. Although I suppose Paroh's heart was hardened by Hashem, and it's somewhat unclear whether or not he really had the chance to do the right thing. What are we reinforcing when we say this every day? What am I thinking about when I daven this every day?]]> 2022-06-12 13:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/TalesTorahTells/929Shmitah/wish/2218564248