[Avodah] THREE Interesting Facts

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, January 24, 2008 3:04am, Cantor Richard Wolberg wrote:
: 2) Hope you had your Buckwheat last Shabbos:
: There is a custom of eating black buckwheat (kasha) on Shabbos Shira.

Obvious "qasha" on this: why?

...
: The difference between the numbers one, two and three are as follows:
: “One” stresses that from the very outset there exists but one thing;
: “two” is indicative of divisiveness — the antitheses of unity.
: “Three,” however, sees a uniting of disparate entities — making “one”
: out of “two.”

Three is the human condition, the "I" who has to choose between the
yeitzer hara and yeitzer hatov, the three elements of Naran, Torah,
Avodah, gemilus chassadim, etc...

(The Notzri version of a threefold deity is the usual effect of
creating god in man's image. Not very different than Ba'al, Asheirah,
Molekh.)

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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