Torah is not merely the 'written' text of the Five Books of Moshe Torah is the meaning enshrined within the text as expounded and unfolded by successive generations of Sages and Teachers among Klal Yisra'el [Hertz Siddur, 1948, p. 356]
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The Pen
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $1.2 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 Celsius.
Confronted with the same problem the Israelis' used a pencil...
Shemot 2:1-10 A man went from the house of Levi and he took a daughter of Levi. The women conceived and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was good and she hid him for three months. She could not hide him any longer, so she took for him a wicker basket and smeared it with clay and pitch; she placed the child into it and placed it among the reeds at the bank of the River. His sister stationed herself at a distance to know what would be done with him. Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe by the River and her maidens walked along the River. She saw the basket among the reeds and she sent her maidservant and she took it. She opened it and saw him, the child, and behold! a youth was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew boys." His sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and summon for you a wet nurse from the Hebrew women, who will nurse the boy for you?" The daughter of Pharaoh said, "Go." The girl went and summoned the boy's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this boy and nurse him for me, and I will give you pay." So the woman took the boy and nursed him. The boy grew up and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh and he was a son to her. She called his name Moshe, as she said, "For I drew him from the water."
Secrets kept, your baby is in hiding You try to keep by your side One day you are warned your child is in danger Find a way to keep him alive.
Yocheved. (your beautiful baby) Yocheved, (Yocheved, your heart must be breaking) So you take your tiny babe and you place him in a basket on the waves How great is your faith.
With trembling hands you weave a tiny basket and place your son inside Through your tears you sadly wonder Will I ever see my little boy alive?
Yocheved. (Yocheved, he's sailing away now) Yocheved, (Yocheved, your heart must be breaking) And as he sails away, your heart breaks with pain. How great is your faith, Yocheved. And if I had been in your place Would I have done the same, Do I have the faith of Yocheved?
And the pain we feel today can be the joy we know tomorrow. And through our faith we can see beyond our blinding sorrow.
Yocheved, (Yocheved, he's sailing away now) Yocheved, (Yocheved, your heart must be breaking) And as he sails away, your heart breaks with pain. How great is your faith.
Yocheved, (My beautiful baby) And if I had been in your place Would I have done the same? Do I have the faith of Yocheved?
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