Because it is so difficult in parts of the world to find clean drinking water, an organization called Water Is Life developed a wonderful resource called “The Drinkable Book.” The paper in the book is coated in silver nanoparticles that filter out almost 99.9 percent of harmful bacteria! Each tear-out page can be used and reused to filter up to 100 liters of water at the cost of only four pennies per page.
The Torah is also an unusually “drinkable.” In the Midrash Shir Hashirim Torah is compared to water, “Just as we find water all over the earth’s surface, so do we find the Torah; water will never cease from this globe, neither will God’s laws cease. Water quickens the thirsty soul; so does the Torah quicken him who is thirsty for knowledge. Water cleanses impurities, and God’s laws do the same.”
Torah is ultimately drinkable because leads us to the source of our “living water.” In God’s name the prophet Isaiah proclaims: “Ho, all who are thirsty, come for water, even if you have no money…Incline you ear and come to Me” (55:1, 3)
Simchat Torah is our time to rejoice for we shall conclude the last chapter of Deuteronomy and begin all over again with the first chapter of Genesis. Those who rejoice will never go thirsty. Come to shul on Simchat Torah and drink up and be satisfied!
Shabbat shalom and Hag samayakh
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