GC#82 - Cold As Ice - Perek Shira 13 - Song of The Waters Part 1 - a podcast by Amram Landau

We have been speaking about moving from a barren desert to the field. The field is where we can cultivate, till the soil and work on it until we see the yield. But there is still something missing. Without the water, it is no good. Nothing will grow.

We have mentioned a number of times that we need to put in the effort and then G-d responds. This is told to us at the beginning of Bereishis, where we see that water only came after humanity was in place - 'Adam was not there to work the ground'. And we explained that this refers also to prayer. If we pray, G-d responds. We will see how this is reflected - literally and metaphorically - on many levels. 

You know most of the time if someone genuinely likes you or not - one need not be a professional to sense the congruence between individuals in a room.

We will see, as we have been discussing Korach, how the misplaced search for honour blinds a person. One can go down the wrong path, searching for the wrong goals. Cultivating weeds rather than crops. There is even a mysterious overlap between Korach and Haman in the fruitless search for unearned respect.

Morever, we will encounter an incredible angle on water. Although it is life-giving and nourishing, it is also manifest in another form - where it becomes rigid and unyielding. This is ice - cold and unforgiving. It turns chesed to din in kabbalistic thought. Ice - kerach in Hebrew...I wonder if you've already noted the correlation - listen in to find out more...

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