Stan Levy

NiSh’ma: God Is Not Self-Sufficient

When I was a boy in religious school, a superb Hasidic teacher taught us that God’s voice in Torah addresses each of us personally; every person named in Torah reveals a dimension of our own personality, and every location in Torah reveals a place in our own life. The text of Torah was a lens through which we could see the text of our own life as it was unfolding.