Why a dreidle represents Torah

The dreidle can teach us a lesson about how Torah works and how Jewish Law is read and expressed.

The Dreidle is a special tool. It spins and then it reveals a Hebrew letter.

The word of Hashem is much like a Dreidle.

First you squeeze fate between your fingers and then you twist just enough to spin the future in your own hopes.

The future does not come immediately and you are left to wonder what the future will be for a portion of the time.

Ultimately, the dreidle finds a fate and an expression.

Much like Life and Torah, there is no immediate response and we do not force the dreidle to stop spinning. When the dreidle is finished and ready, it will settle on a letter in a very easy fashion.

Remembering that Torah works through passive means, the student of Torah will understand that by watching a dreidle spin, we can assign our own study to a special attribute of hope and then realize that our ways which we started the spin of the dreidle will result ultimately in the end of time being concluded in a manner in which our spin resulted in a grade or a challenge being resolved.

Torah is not an asset of forced direction. Torah does not force the future.

If you let the ways of Hashem dictate your management of trust and time, you will ultimately see the results in the future once the spinning of anticipation and change stops in its own time.

Torah does not change the future with malevolent force.

My Garaj Mahal.

I heard the term today and it applies. I have a Garaj Mahal. I have 6 large flags in the garage on the walls. The Browns, Israel, The Indians, The Air Force, My Fraternity and My University. I also have a small American flag which was once a car window flag displayed above my University flag.