Let the Good Fire Burn
- Rabbi Moshe Perets
- Dec 25, 2022
- 1 min read
Fire of Torah and Good Deeds
Good and Bad Fire
Fire represents passion. There are many things about which we humans can be passionate. Good deeds, prayer, Torah study, family, friends, work, hobbies, etc.
It is important to examine whether our passion is a fire that lights up the world or whether our passion is a fire that burns up our world. If it is a fire that burns up the world, we must learn to put out that fire in our hearts, if it is a fire that lights up the world we must let it increase every day.
Brought By Angelique Sijbolts
Angelique Sijbolts is one of the main writers for the Noahide Academy. She has been an observant Noahide for many years. She studies Torah with Rabbi Perets every week. Angelique invests much of her time in editing video-lectures for the Rabbis of the Academy and contributes in administrating the Academy's website in English and Dutch. She lives in the north of the Netherlands. Married and mother of two sons. She works as a teacher in a school with students with special needs. And is a Hebrew Teacher for the levels beginners and intermediate. She likes to walk, to read and play the piano.
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I am always fascinated by what seems to be duality in nature and creation. That is, the idea that there can be opposites found within nature and all of creation. For example, as you wrote, fire. Fire has a dual nature. It can bring warmth, but also it can burn us. Depending on how we use the fire it can bring good or harm. I believe the same can be said of the Torah. If we abuse the Torah, we bring destruction to the world. If we utilize it for good, we bring healing to the world.