When I think of Torah, I immediately think about the nature of human relationships; you can’t understand one without the other, especially when it comes to prayer and Torah study. Real prayer and Torah study is all about kissing. Why is it that we have the custom to kiss a mezuzah, siddur, and sefer Torah? Why kiss phylacteries and tallis? What’s all this kissing about? It’s about being intimate with what we study, with what we pray, and with what we interact with in our world. How does the Amidah begin? We say “Master, OPEN MY LIPS…” we literally want to start our highest spiritual experience with a kiss. May we all be given the capacity to kiss.

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