Monday night COLlive Torah: Rabbi YY Jacobson, spiritual leader of congregation Bais Shmuel and one of the most sought after speakers in the Jewish world, presents a fascinating class, “The Five Challenges of Living.”
The class demonstrates how the five holidays in the Jewish calendar parallel the five most painful aspects of life. And all of it is captured brilliantly in the portion of Emor.
I second that. It’s one of the most painful challenges I’ve ever been going through, which seems to only have darkness as it’s end.
Dare I add a sixth to the ‘most painful elements of living??’ One which embodies almost all of the previous five? Loss, mental turmoil, and uncertainty, definitely are all part and parcel of Number 6; “The life, or lack of of it, of an older single” The hurt and pain involved in this particular element is as real to each and everyone one of us, as illness r”l, loss, etc, as all those mentioned by Rabbi Jacobson; Maybe the Rabbi could address that particular hurt and pain to so many of us, and teach and guide us as to how… Read more »