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How does G-d prepare for His annual reelection? Does just He sit up there in His "palace" trusting in our good sense to proclaim Him king once again? Does He go after the vote, mingling with the masses, pressing the flesh, kissing babies?
Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19 Torah Reading for Week of August 26 - September 1, 2001 
The law of the beautiful captive and the rebellious son, the hybrid garment and the falsely accused spouse, the hungry employee and a dead brother's wife, how to get married and when to get divorced - and sixty-six other mitzvot - in this week's Torah reading...
Three points of interface 
We perceive what Kabbalistic teaching calls
the "descent of Creation" in the related physical phenomenon of "entropy", whereby the universe appears to be proceeding inexorably forward in time toward greater and greater decomposition.But from the wondrous realm of subatomic reality - the hidden microcosm which only G-d can "know" directly - numerous intimations of Creation's true character surface. Elementary particles move backward in time, leaving "footprints" that are experimentally observable. Thus, the force of Tikun - of negative-entropy -- can be said to reside within the realm of the infinitely small.
"What have you been doing for the last year? What have you accomplished wasting your time by those wildmen?" "I learned that G-d creates the world" answered the young man.
"It hurts." He bunches his fist over his heart. "Here. A long time. A year, maybe ten. Forever.""Can you put a name to it?" "You know the way a crow does when it's picking at a squirrel that's been run over? Like that. Stabbing." "What makes it better?" The question confounds him. He looks out the window. |
 The Parshah in a Nutshell
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