In this week’s Torah portion, Sh’mini we come to the absolute middle of the Torah in terms of the number of letters. The middle occurs in the middle of the Hebrew word for belly. That is, the middle of the Torah corresponds to the middle of the body. When we speak of the important moments of life we recount the highs and the lows. But is it not the middle or the middling times that are most important? It is just the living every day, doing what we must, that defines our life. The driving of our children to Religious School every week, taking our aged parents for an outing, remembering our friend’s important birthday. Not earth shattering events but important none the less. In Judaism we are always to remember that we can make all the moments in our lives holy even the most mundane or middle.
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