{"id":52487,"date":"2019-12-27T02:08:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=52487"},"modified":"2019-12-27T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T23:10:33","slug":"off-the-pulpit-an-eye-for-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-an-eye-for-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: An Eye for Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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When concluding study of a tractate of Talmud, we say \u201chadran aloch\u201d \u2013 we will return to you. The same root that means \u2018return\u2019 can mean \u201cbeauty.\u201d Beauty is a durable quality, something that can give delight again and again.<\/p>\n

Beauty is attributed to the natural world and to men as well as women. For an example of the aesthetic eye of our Sages, read this magnificent depiction of physical beauty: \u201cOne who desires to see Rabbi Johanan\u2019s beauty, let him take a silver goblet as it emerges from the crucible, fill it with the seeds of a pomegranate, encircle its brim with a chaplet of red roses, and set it between the sun and the shade; its lustrous shade is akin to Rabbi Johanan\u2019s beauty (B.M. 84a).\u201d Have a beautiful New Year.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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