My Machlokes With Oscar

An old post I stumbled upon:-).


    "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Oscar Wilde


Sorry Oscar - death stinks [literally and figuratively]!

We weren't supposed to die. "Vi'atem hadveikim bashem elokeichem CHAIM koolchem hayom" - Those who are attached to Hashem remain forever alive. After the sin of Adam we found ourselves detached from the source of life - that is why we die. Removing the fruit from the tree causes the fruit to wilt. So too, we found ourselves removed from our source and we must eventually wilt. [See Maskil Lishlomo on Parshas Bereishis]

There is only one solution. To grab the aitz hachaim - the tree of life.

"Aitz chaim he lamachazikim ba".

Torah.

Live and learn. Learn and live.

Forever!

Good Shabbos to my beloved and sweetest friends!!!