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How Great Are Your Works

Posted: 08 May 2009 10:00 AM PDT
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aspaqlaria/~3/ew1QaRdVrFE/great-are-your-works.shtml


Not my usual speed for a blog entry, but I saw this and was nispael (awed).  
Its a video of what does on within a cell. How much Divine Wisdom there is  
in just one microscopic little spot within the world, and how easy it is to  
take for granted!

(If you do not see a video below this sentence, try this link.)




This posting includes a media file:  
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aspaqlaria/~5/TAsBa5f4M_Q/harvard.swf

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Emergency Doors

Posted: 08 May 2009 09:35 AM PDT
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aspaqlaria/~3/UFJOS_CveGk/emergency-doors.shtml


My current employer is meticulous about hanging mezuzos. He hired a rav who  
is an expert in this particular mitzvah, and he went around identifying  
every doorway. (Some of which are non-obvious, like where the metal between  
the tiles in the ceiling makes the top of the door-frame.)

On the way down the hall, I did a double-take. There was the alarmed  
emergency door, with the mezuzah on the left and angled the wrong way. It  
was as though the rabbi decided that unlike every other doorway from the  
hall, this one ran in the other direction  into the hall rather than  
outward from it. It actually took me over a day before I realized why  from  
the outside, this door is the entrance to the hall. You enter through the  
lobby, up the stairs and through the emergency door and into the hall.  
Whereas the other doors are from the hall to a particular destination.

And it took me another day to realize the basic mussar point, why the  
mezuzahs placement was non-obvious to me.

When I think of an emergency, Im thinking of how I would escape. How the  
door would get me out of the hall in case of a fire. However, if there were  
a fire on one of the higher floors, the door would be used to let them  
escape to a lower level. There is a self-centerdness, at least when  
thinking of survival, that kept me from thinking of the doorway  
objectively, as being a way in in addition to being a way out.



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