A Soulful Journey

Reality is what we perceive.  It is not necessarily the truth.  It is only our perception of the truth. This country bumpkin went into town.  He walked into the general store and saw a mirror something he’d never seen before.  He looked straight into the mirror and was startled.  "Oh my.  How did this store get a painting of my deceased father?  Oh, how young he was in this painting."  He kept walking away and going back to see if this was truly the painting of his father.  He couldn’t leave a picture of his father here at a stranger’s store, so he decided to buy it and take it home.  He was afraid to tell his wife that he’d spent money on a painting so he put it in the barn.  But, it also bothered him to have his father sitting alone in the barn.  As often as the farmer could, he’d run out to the barn to look at the picture. The farmer’s wife become very upset about how much time her husband was...

A Hassidic Rebbe was once speaking about the Torah and the upcoming parasha, b’haalotkha .  He asked his disciples, “Why is there an enlarged “khet” in the title word, b’haalotkha ? "It stands for God’s name,” he answered. “But rebbe,” one retorted, “There is no big “khet” in b’haalotkha .” “That’s your answer,” replied the rebbe .  –Louis Jacobs Is this a joke?  Or is how life really is?  Is life how we see it?