Learners’ Tapestry

Where are the dinars? She replied: Go and get them from beneath the hinge of the door in such and such a place, and tell my mother that she should send me my comb and a tube of eyeshadow with such and such a woman who will die and come here tomorrow. Apparently, the dead know what transpires in this world.
I love the idea that the living are still able to help the dead and be in contact with them and that a mother is still sending her daughter care packages in the world to come. It is such a poignant and human and personal moment of tenderness, expressing the bond between mother and daughter which death does not sever.

There are some who expound well but do not fulfill well and who fulfill well but do not expound well

תנא אותו היום סלקוהו לשומר הפתח אונתנה להם רשות לתלמידים ליכנס שהיה ר”ג מכריז ואומר כל תלמיד שאין תוכו כברו לא יכנס לבית המדרש ההוא יומא אתוספו כמה ספסלי א”ר יוחנן פליגי בה אבא יוסף בן דוסתאי ורבנן חד אמר אתוספו ארבע מאה ספסלי וחד אמר שבע מאה ספסלי הוה קא חלשא דעתיה דר”ג אמר דלמא ח”ו מנעתי תורה מישראל אחזו ליה בחלמיה חצבי חיורי דמליין קטמא ולא היא ההיא ליתובי דעתיה הוא דאחזו ליה

You can’t dance at 2 weddings.
As mothers and modern women, we try to do everything and be there for everyone- our children, our husbands, our parents, and our friends. We can try but we can’t do everything. We have to understand that and give ourselves credit for what we do without feeling guilty for what we can’t do!

ואמר רבי שפטיה אמר רבי יוחנן:
“כל הקורא בלא נעימה ושונה בלא זמרה, עליו הכתוב אומר: “וגם אני נתתי להם חוקים לא טובים וגו”

דְּתַנְיָא, אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹסֵי: מִפְּנֵי מָה הַכֹּל נֶאֱמָנִין עַל טׇהֳרַת יַיִן וָשֶׁמֶן כׇּל יְמוֹת הַשָּׁנָה — כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא יְהֵא כׇּל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד הוֹלֵךְ וּבוֹנֶה בָּמָה לְעַצְמוֹ, וְשׂוֹרֵף פָּרָה אֲדוּמָּה לְעַצְמוֹ.
Rabbi Yosei said: For what reason are all people, i.e., even amei ha’aretz, trusted with regard to the purity of their wine and oil that they bring to the Temple for sacrificial purposes throughout the year? Why is the status of these items not investigated to determine that they were prepared with the necessary regard for ritual purity? In order to avoid schisms among the people, so that each and every individual should not go off and build a private altar for himself and burn a red heifer for himself. Were the Sages to reject sacrificial wine and oil from amei ha’aretz, they would become alienated and go off and create schisms, going so far as to build their own separate temples and bring their own private offerings.

“אחד המרבה ואחד הממעיט ובלבד שיכוון את ליבו לשמיים”

A maidservant…saw a…man…striking his mature son…she exclaimed…You shall not place a stumbling block…