[Avodah] cave or desert island

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, January 27, 2008 12:13 pm, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: Avraham Avinu is the paradigm of how Jews are supposed to be --
: somewhat isolated from society and somewhat engaged with society. He
: avoided living  in a city altogether... didn't even live in a house.
: He created his own society in a rural area, his compound of tents,
: family, employees... This balance of isolation and engagement is the
: ideal.

A beautiful tribute to RnTK's sister, Kiryat Nachliel in Migdal haEimeq.

(For those who don't know the reference, see
<http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/ravbulman.html> on RNB, RnTK's
father, and his other work.)

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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