This one is for the bloggers.
David Pell has an article at the Huffington Post titled I Don't Care If You Read This Article. Of couurse, I had to click on it with such a title. It's about people measuring their self-worth by the internet traffic they generate. How many bloggers identify with this?
And this one's for women to relate to their husbands - a Torah thought on this week's parsha by Rabbi Eli Mansour about the Sotah which is discussed in this week's Parsha of Naso.
In introducing this section, the Torah writes, “Ish Ish Ki Tisteh Ishto…” – “If a man’s wife strays…” The question immediately arises as to why the Torah here repeats the word “Ish” (“man”), as though it was saying, “A man, a man whose wife strays…” What is the purpose of this repetition?
One of the scholars of Musar suggested that the Torah here subtly addresses the question of why a married woman would enter into an extramarital relationship. What might cause a woman to betray her husband? The answer, the Torah teaches us, is often “Ish Ish” – that the marriage was only about the husband. A marriage is supposed to be “Ish Isha” – a husband and wife.
Read full article: http://www.dailyhalacha.com/WeeklyParasha.asp
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