Parshat Shmini: The honey and the sting

The deeper lesson of the Torah’s teaching is not that one must have tragedy at the very moment of triumph, but that everything contains its opposite.

A BOY prepares to eat an apple with honey, as is traditional on Rosh Hashanah.

A BOY prepares to eat an apple with honey, as is traditional on Rosh Hashanah.

(photo credit: MENDY HECHTMAN/FLASH90)

APRIL 8, 2021 21:00

Updated: APRIL 8, 2021 21:01

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