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Daily Study
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Chumash with Rashi
Devarim, 6th Portion (Devarim (Deuteronomy) 2:31-3...
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Psalms/Tehillim
Chapters 18-22
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Tanya
Iggeret HaKodesh, beginning of Epistle 1
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Daily Thought
Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a
conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a
single, indivisible whole.
Think of a geometrical point. A point is
indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A
point simply has no area to be divided. That’s what makes it a point.
And yet, from a point you can extend infinite
lines radiating in infinite dimensions.
In a somewhat similar way, but far beyond, all
Jews are one Jew. Which means that in any one Jew, you will find all of us—just
from a different angle.
So that whatever happens to any one of us
instantaneously happens to the entire Jewish people. Not by some ripple effect
or resonance. But...



