A Soulful Journey

Rabbi Berel Wein offers a meaningful explanation of the small alef i n the Torah reading of the first word in Leviticus, Vayikra.  He says that the small  alef teaches us that God spoke very softly. Only Moses could hear God, not the Israelites. In the same way, Elijah at Mount Sinai finds that God is not in the strong wind, the earthquake or the fire. Instead, God speaks to him with a “still, small voice.” So the One speaks today.   Listen.

Parsimony, soft-heartedness and naiveté are vices in a man but virtues in a woman. - Hasdai ben-Ha-Melekh v'ha-Nazir Like all aphorisms this is as true as we want it to be. You must strive to be you, every day, every moment. When you aspire to be someone or something that you are not an innate part of your soul is crushed.