THE TORAH TELLS us to wait seven days after the birth of a boy performing Bris Milah. Similarly, it also teaches us to wait seven days from the birth of a potential sacrifice before offering it up on its eighth day.

One of the physical differences between humans and animals is what they are like from birth. When animals are born they already look like adult animals, just in miniature.

It’s interesting. Matzah is just flour and water which, the Maharal explains, is why it is representative of Olam HaBa, the World to Come. The World to Come is sublimely simple, and flour and water is about as simple as it gets when it comes to food.

THE PREVIOUS WEEK I spoke about the idea of the Roshem, and how something so “small” could amount to so much “big.”

THE EXPRESSION IS, “You only get one shot at a first impression,” and in life, a first impression can mean everything.