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Using a Torah Portion's Symbols and Metaphors to Create a Dvar Torah

Why Symbols and Metaphors Are Important to Dvar Torah Creation
from Reclaiming Bar/Bat Mitzvah as a Spiritual Rite of PassageAn Empowering Guide for Students, Families, Educators, and Clergy, by Rabbi Goldie Milgram

Torah as Metaphor, Example Text: Torah Portion Chukkat

Numbers 19:1- 22:1

There are many approaches to Torah study. My favorites are Remez–finding hints to meaning and Sod (samech daled in Hebrew, pronounced Sohd)–when the text becomes a portal of expanded, seemingly mystical, awareness.