]> http://www.shalomctr.org/taxonomy/term/152/all en http://www.shalomctr.org/node/1290 <p>The Oven that Coiled like a Snake</p> <p>by Rabbi Arthur Waskow &#038; Rabbi Phyllis Berman<br /> from their book TALES OF TIKKUN: NEW JEWISH STORIES TO HEAL THE WOUNDED WORLD<br /> Copyright by the authors</p> <p> On a warm spring evening in the town of Yavneh, dinner had just begun in the home of Imma Shalom and her husband Eliezer ben Hyrcanus. Now Imma Shalom was, as her name said, “Mother Peace.” When people came to her with arguments to settle, she would often say, “In my parents’ house I learned the Torah that ‘Both these words and those words are words of the Living God.’ But this is not enough. For if God is One, these words must somehow mean one thing. Let us learn the wisdom of this Unity.” So she would gently show how two different ways of understanding Torah could be brought into harmony.</p> Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:20:05 -0400