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Initiation & Awakening – Filling the Void

Posted on February 2, 2014 by David Blumenkrantz

I first heard this old Yiddish story, which has roots in the Talmud, from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz 1.image1-feb-revised2

 Photo Credit: Lucretia Robbiani

While we are in the womb, we know everything there is to know about the universe, but we forget it all at birth. At a later time, to help us remember, God runs a finger from the bottom of our nose to the top of our lip. That’s why there’s an indentation. (more…)

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Read more about Youth & Community Development through Rites of Passage in the new and highly acclaimed book by Dr. David Blumenkranz.


David Blumenkrantz, Ph.D., Ed.M., Founder & Executive Director, the Center for Youth & Community

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