שתי תורות הברית

Unfortunately, this is a piece that's part of a much larger idea and shiur that i never got the gumpgo to organize and write down. But all roads lead to Truth, and if it is the Truth then I'm sure someone else traveling along the road will discover the same and find use.

The commitment of ברית allowing for the peaceful integration of נעשה ונשמע , Heart and Mind, Loyal Subordination and Independent Intellectual Opposition, עבודה and תורה, gאהרן ומשה , Sefaradim and Ashkenazim .... and today's realized addition:

כתב-לך את-הדברים האלה כי על-פי הדברים האלה כרתי אתך ברית ואת-ישראל

Torah Sh'bichtav and Torah sheB'alPeh functioning in the same way. The structured framework of Torah Sh'bichtav with the open, independent, challenging of b'alPeh. == Brit.

Initiating an Initiator -- Receptivity

We're accustomed to thinking that in male-female courtship the man is always the initiator e.g. the one to approach the girl, to ask her out, her phone number, etc. But actually I think that's only half true.
It's often the female who will first show signs of receptivity beforehand. It's the expression of receptivity that is the true initiator of the initiate so that ultimately what you have is two separate initiators --- one b'itgalya and one b'itkasya.
That I think is part of the dysfunction in your standard shidduch set-up. The man is attempting to court someone who has no real initial interest in him. In live settings, we men can make use of certain tricks to help induce that receptivity ;-)

The idea came to me when reading about the mating procedures of dolphins. There's alot we can take from dolphins in understanding our own selves i think (Bechoros 8A)

As I mentioned though, there are forms of courtship which are completely initiated by the male with no initial female interest whatsoever. It then becomes a responsibility on the male part to "spark her interest" i.e. to create a need, a want, receptivity.

Be that as it may though, either path you take, at some point in the process a need of, and receptivity to, must be formed for any true "click" of a male-female energy to work. Only empty spaces can be filled.

http://67.55.50.201/lilly/dolsex.html - strange website though. Dr. Lily experimented with LSD while examing the dolphins so who knows if the info is credible....

http://www.zoophile.net/dolphin.php -- we have what to learn from the man regardless of his being an עבריין

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070403224451.htm

[Afterwards, I saw it's מדוייק in Avot D'Rebbi Natan (פרק א) :
עשר קללות נתקללה חוה באותה שעה ..... והוא ימשל בך שהאיש תובע בפה והאישה תובעת בלב. ]

2 Thoughts-- Yaveish Gilad and Crying

-- the strange relationship of אנשי יבש גלעד and שבט בנימין. They are destoyed at the end of Sefer Shoftim for not coming to fight against Binyamin. They are saved by Shaul Hamelech (Binyamin) and then later save his body and his sons at the end of Shmuel...

was wondering if the fact that Binyamin was the only shevet not involved in the Brit of Gal Ed גל עד has anything to do with it.... יבש גלעד דייקא

[See Bereishit Rabba 71:9 and Divrei HaYamim I 8--> the remez of אליהו הגלעדי in the context of פרשת משפחת בנימין]

-- interesting material of Dane Cook on YouTube about crying... weight of the world on one's shoulders... wondering if there's any בכה בכ"ה connection ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nsI02gnUk

Interesting Peculiarities

• This one is not my own. Realized it from reading the writings of R' Yosef Gikatilia. Throughout the "debate perakim" in sefer Iyov the predominant mention of either שדי, אל, אלוה check and see. More intriguing is the name of Havaya being used completely (i think) at beginning and end of sefer and once (and this is the most interesting i think) in the middle of the sefer 12:9 מי לא ידע בכל אלה כי יד ה' עשתה זאת

• I could be wrong but i don't think you ever find the usage of שבועה לה'1 whereas by nedarim you find it quite often. [P.S. See R' Bachya Beginning Pr' Matot -- ולא הבנתי]

Fixation of A"Z and Beauty/ Tiferet

Interesting the pshat and drash in the seforim on the pasuk:

אל תפנו אל האלילים ואלהי מסכה לא תעשו לכם
The relation of A'"Z ( מסכה ) to gazing at beauty (אלהי סכייה, as the Zohar learns) -- both a form of fixation on the physical as a means of accessing something higher. Note that only by the Sun of Yaa'kov was there a fear of deification, not the other Avot.

(I think also by Moshe actually there was that fear, would be interesting to explore the Moshe-- A"Z-- Ba'al Pe'or -- Shma Yisrael connection as well)

Pretty-- Jasmine Flower

thought it interesting and pretty


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDP7etvX6MI

Various Good Questions

בענין י"ג מדות --
הנה ידוע מאמרם ז"ל על ה' ה' אני הוא קודם שיחטא אני הוא לאחר שיחטא וישוב
הנה מצינו בכמה מקומות בש"ס וספרים ששם ושרש 'הויה' מורה על קיום הדבר באופן תמידי מחוץ לגבולות הזמן והחיים
לכן לשון הויה מורה עיכוב ותמידות בלי השתנות בכמה פרשיות שונים עי' שם בסוגיית מנחות
ומה גם עצם המעלה של שם הויה על שאר שמות קדושים הוא בזה שהוא עצם ולא מדה . כן הבנתי בדל השגתי.
ואם ח"ו שגיתי ה' הטוב יכפר

ולכן קשה לי להבין כפילות השם פה ומאמרם ז"ל ומה גם ענין הפסיק שביניהם
ועי' בר' בחיי בפר' כי תשא ועדיין לא הבנתי


בענין דום ודומה--
לשון דומ הבנתי מכמה מקומות שהוא מורה ענין של ביטול ו"מיתת" האדם ורגשיו רצונו וחפצו

• וידום אהרן
• אמרו בלבבכם על משכבכם ודומו סלה ומאמרם ז"ל (and with this i understood why it's placed only as the final alternative. Withdrawal and "shutting down" is always a last option versus living and "overcoming")
• דומה ממונה על המתים . לא המתים יהללו י-ה ולא כל יורדי דומה

וא"כ קל"ל הענין אצל הפסוק "ישב בדד וידום כי נטל עליו" ומאמרם ז"ל שנדרש על הלומד תורה יחידי