One of the most difficult things in davening, praying, is when we say the Shema, and we pronounce Hashem’s Name, we are meant to think: He is the Creator of everything. Not just the Earth, not just the solar system, the universe – everything. Beyond. And beyond the beyond. Now this isn’t an easy thing to imagine. But when I saw those pictures from Artemis II, I got help in visualizing that idea.
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Rabbi Yaakov Asher SinclairRabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair has been part of Ohr Somayach since 1987. Rabbi Sinclair gives a daily Gemara shiur in the Intermediate Program and a weekly philosophy shiur in the Mechina Program. He is a senior staff writer of the Torah internet publications Ohrnet, Torah Weekly and Seasons of the Moon. His articles have been published in many journals and magazines including the Jewish Observer, American Jewish Spirit, AJOP Newsletter, Zurich’s Die Jüdische Zeitung, South African Jewish Report and many others.
His first book Seasons of the Moon – the Auerbach Edition
