blessing for thick skin, literal & symbolic.

Apr 27, 2011 00:45

Baruch atah Adonai elohaynu melech ha'olam asher kidshanu bemitzvotav ve'noten lanu matanat orh chazak.

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starfrosting April 27 2011, 19:54:13 UTC
my rabbi's said interesting things about the orh/ori connection...can you translate the last part of the bracha for me bubeleh?

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toughgav April 30 2011, 03:56:05 UTC
what things did yr rabbi say, tell me!
the last part is 'who gives us the gift of strong skin.'

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starfrosting May 1 2011, 01:40:52 UTC
he was riffing on skin + light sounding phonetically the same, that it's a difference between aleph and ayin (if I wrote it down right), Adam and Chava first had "garments of light" for skin that became less porous/transparent flesh when they realized the possibility of separation from G-d...I think a lot of what he was discussing comes from the Sfat Emet.

if you want to read something a little more well-composed than my memory of my kabbalah-class notes, I looked it up and found some interesting stuff here (in the "parshat tazria" section):
http://mindfultorah.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html

xo

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