While talking to someone about the qualities of marble for a particular construction, they told me that marble is like a "living stone": being a porous material, it absorbs water and moisture in general and expands and contracts according to temperature, pressure, etc.<\/p>\n
If we can say "that it is alive" about marble, a stone, how much more can we say about the Torah, that it is a Living Torah.<\/p>\n
Our sages comment that the Torah is called, in Hebrew, Torat Chaim. This expression can be translated in several ways:<\/p>\n
1) "The Torah of Life." The Torah is a teaching for life. It is not merely an ancient tale from an ancient people (like fairy tales, where there was once a king and a prince, far away and long ago, but today there is nothing of the sort), but a teaching for life today, for our time and in our society and circumstances.<\/p>\n
2) "The Torah is Life." The Torah is and gives us life, strength, and energy to maintain our identity intact beyond the circumstances that surround us.<\/p>\n
There wasn't once a Torah. There is a Torah, or rather, we have a Torah, which teaches us how to be good people, with meaningful and fulfilling lives, and also gives us life and strength to move forward and overcome all of life's challenges.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conversando con una persona sobre las cualidades del m\u00e1rmol para una construcci\u00f3n determinada, me comentaba que el m\u00e1rmol es como una \"piedra viva\": al tratarse de un material poroso, absorbe agua y humedad en general y se expande y contrae seg\u00fan la temperatura, la presi\u00f3n, etc. Si sobre m\u00e1rmol, una piedra, podemos decir \"que est\u00e1… Read More \u00bbTorat Chaim \u2013 Torah of Life<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editoriales"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/avatar1400.jpeg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"castbox":{"key":"castbox","url":"","label":"CastBox","class":"castbox","icon":"castbox.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/en\/feed\/podcast\/rabino-tuvia-serber","embedCode":"Torat Ja\u00edm \u2013 Tor\u00e1 de vida<\/a><\/blockquote>