TABLE OF CONTENTS Adin Steinsaltz. Colored sparks ..................... 7 No one takes no bull cow wife ......................... 9 Money - a ladder .............................................. 14 .... When milking a cow, her bow ................................ 19 Dog and cat ............................................... ......................... 24 At the point of the sword ............................................... ............... 29 Includes wine - is a mystery ..................................... 34 In the Bible there is no curse words ............................................ 39 The problem cursing ......................................... 43 Tigers at the wedding ............................................... ........... 48 Peculiarities of the National reluctance ......................... 53 Frisbees ................................................ 58 ....... What Cain killed Abel? ............................................. 63 .... Martyr rationalism ............................................... 68 The Japanese translated Talmud .......................................... 73 Text Completion ................................................ 78 ........ Rider and horse ............................................... .............. 82 Medical problem ................................................ 87 The winners of the revolution ............................................... 92 The girl with red hair ................................... 97 Donkey and the smuggler ............................................... .102 Very Narrow Bridge ............................................... ......... 107 Why trees rejoice Messiah? .................... 111 The road is short, but long ................................... 116 In his youth, a man is like God ............................. 121 You can not be old! ................................................. 126 Risk Group ................................................ .............. 131 Chess, not card ............................................. 136 .... For whom God is sick? ..................................... 140 A man with two heads ............................................. 145 Error Hoover ................................................ .......... 149 In search of a national idea ................................. 154 Apology disease ................................................ 159 ...... You love your disease? .................................... 164 The phenomenon of Rasputin ................................................ 168 ... The definition of a miracle ................................................ 173 ...... Sage and calf ............................................... 178 ....... Let's talk about the strangeness of love ............................. 182 Model Bernard Shaw ............................................... 187 Who swallowed Jonah? ................................................ 195 Large light of the desert .............................................. 200 In the phantom world ............................................... 205 ..... Where are you, Adam? .................................................. .......... 210 As I talked with Steinsaltz ...................... 214
Colored sparks How was born the book? Her short and so different chapters have a similar story: they were born out of our meetings with Mikhail Gorelik. We meet mostly in Russian, sometimes in Israel. Michael is always dressed for the season: in the summer it clean-shaven, in the winter of his intelligent face is decorated with a beard. The rest of the clothes do not undergo seasonal changes.
Topic for conversation usually pick it: the eternal questions or topical issues that are frivolous or obviously - a word that comes to mind. At this point the selected Michael begins our conversation. He asks, I answer, he retorts, sometimes launch at the digression. So there is a "fish", the raw material for future chapters. From the rather messy dialogues, sometimes direct answers to questions less than reasoning about the bush, Michael retrieves and ordered a subordinate unified theme material.
Our dialogue whenever gives me the same association: it reminds me of the principle of a simple lighter. Steel, flint - colored sparks are born out of their meeting. Flint has no idea how many shades of fire hidden in it. Red, blue, green - whether they are hiding in the stone? And maybe in the steel? The chapters in this book - colored sparks.
I sincerely hope that readers will get pleasure from it, commensurate with that which we have received, removing the spark.
What will happen then? Maybe the light flash on and off, and can be, the flame will burn and burn. Sometimes a man reading a book with pleasure - and then forget about it. But sometimes the soul remains sketchy idea, the idea - and who can say where all this will lead? ..
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