Inside or outside, old or new, the story of our People continues echoing, in a never-ceasing song.
It’s not our place to offer novel interpretations to pesukim in Nach but the scene pictured above brings a pasuk to mind.
“Haduda’im nasnu reiach,” says the pasuk in Shir Hashirim 7:14, “v’al pesacheinu, kol megadim chadashim, gam yeshanim; dodi, tzafanti lach. — The mandrakes give their fragrance, and on our doorsteps are all choice fruits, my Beloved, [that] I have stored for You.”
Rav Yisroel Newman, rosh yeshivah of Beth Medrash Govoha, takes the same summer break each year. Whereas during the zeman he spends his days and nights in the beis medrash of the building known as “the Yashan” (so called because it’s the yeshivah’s “old” building), during the summer months he transitions outdoors.
The climate is warmer, the “mandrakes give their fragrance.”
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