However, Noah's flood is compared to a "war" between G-d and Mankind. There's no reference in the Talmud identifying the dove or olive branch as symbols of peace. Is there any Talmudic source for such a notion, and if not from where do we arrive at the contention that the dove and the olive branch are symbols of peace? Many thanks for your wonderful and elucidating series. It is a growing city with a large immigrant population, religious communities and yeshivot.īarry Pogrund wrote: We often talk about the dove and the olive branch as symbols of peace. Modern Ashdod, established in 1957, contains one of the country's major ports alongside some large industries. This perennial thorn in the side of Israel was the object of many prophetic curses, and was finally conquered by King Uzzia of Judea. In Samuel I there is a description of the disgrace visited upon the idol, and the suffering of the city's inhabitants, as punishment for their treatment of the Ark. One of the five major Philistine cities, Ashdod was the site of the temple of the idol Dagan, where the Holy Ark was brought after its capture from the vanquished Israelites. Which express the special relationship between Light Insight | Love of the Land | Other Side of the Story | Response Line If a person really tries, and puts his heart and soul into his learning, he receives reward, even he ends up understanding nothing.Įven if he comes away with just a few tattered pieces of material where others have stitched a suit. Even if you put your heart and soul into your work if you produce nothing, that's what you get paid. There is no job in the world which pays for effort alone. "It's enough I don't sue you for the price of my Cathay silk! You bungling oaf!" And with that, he stormed out of the house. "But," continued the tailor, "I would like you to pay me what we originally agreed, because even though you don't have the suit, I did put my heart and soul into making it." The businessman's face turned green. With measured tones, the tailor told him how he had worked so hard on his suit how it was a creation unmatched in all his years of tailoring of the long loving hours he had devoted to it and finally, what had happened last night after he had left the workroom. Looking up, he saw the business man standing over him, beaming with expectation and blissfully unaware of what had happened to his priceless Cathay silk. He stood in the middle of his workroom with tears welling up in his eyes and sighed in resignation. When the tailor came down the next morning and saw what had happened, he was distraught beyond words. All that was left were a few pieces of cloth with tell-tale teeth marks. Scores of mice came pouring out, all with a single objective - the suit. He was followed by another, and another and another. A furry nose twitched from side to side expectantly, and a tiny mouse suddenly scuttled into the center of the room.
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Two little dark eyes squinted out from a crack in the wall. There it was in all its glory, bathed in a shaft of moonlight. Then, unable to resist, he turned and opened the door again for a final peek. The tailor left the room and closed the door. The businessman would be coming bright and early the following day to collect his suit. He yawned, picked up his tired bones and made his way to bed. Here was a suit the likes of which had never been seen!
He snipped off the thread and sat back to admire his work. It was about two in the morning when the tailor stitched the last button onto the suit. He worked with extra-special care, trying not to waste a single thread.Ī week of finger-breaking work followed. The very next morning, the tailor set to work with relish. He measured the businessman and a price was struck for the work. While traveling in the East, he had given a king's ransom to buy a bolt of pure Cathay silk - the finest of its kind in the world. One day, a wealthy businessman came to him with a special job. He was known far and wide as an artist who could take mere thread and turn it into apparel fit for a king. Light Insight | Love of the Land | Response Line
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