Word: chayim
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...with Annie Dillard I rejoice: "Life gets your blood going, and it smells good." At the threshold of change, with the nuances and relationships of four years piled high around us, we're filled with each other and with life. There is a Jewish exclamation for celebration. L'chayim. To life...
Nevertheless, Chayim Herzig-Marx, director of information resources and services, says he plans to play it safe for the first few months after the turning of the new millennium...
...again in the Knesset basement. Sitting at a blue cloth-covered table and surrounded by colleagues, Labor Leader Peres and Likud Chief Shamir signed the accord that established a national unity government. Cognac glasses in hand, the new partners toasted the accomplishment with cries of "L 'chayim " (To life...
Then there was singing, followed by toasts ("L'chayim!"-to life), followed by more singing, and the first of many talks by the Rebbe, during which everyone remained standing. The Rebbe spoke on the four levels on which, according to the Hasidim, the Bible is written: p'shat or literal meaning, d'rush or simple allegory relating to moral teachings, remez or "the hint" of the mystical relation between man and God, and sod, the secret, dealing with esoteric cosmological matters accessible only to students of the cabala...
...anguish at Hartwell's well-acted deatn. Her appeals, her sobs, her despair, were surprisingly effective. It would be easy to go on commending: the solicitude of Gregov, as played by O. Lyding '09; the fervor of Ussishkof as acted by J. A. Eccles '10; the naturalness of Chayim in the hands of G. D. Marti '12, the sonorous vim of the Rabbi in the voice of D. Gardiner 2L.; and the pleasant unction of Sir James Wingate in the smile of E. A. Bemis '11; or, to amplify a specific word of praise for the three-cornered scene...