SW02: Your Connection Reflex? -- Classical Sources

Every show in the Simple Wisdom series draws upon classical and contemporary sources. Here we provide some of the classical sources that inspired Irwin's teachings for this particular show. We hope that reflecting upon them will help to deepen your appropriation of the show's teaching.

²⁷And God created the human in God’s image, in the image of God, God created the human; male and female God created them.

Genesis 1:27

¹⁸God said, “It is not good for the human to be alone; I will make a fitting helper…” 

Genesis 2:18

¹God appeared to him by the terebinths of Mamre; he was sitting at the entrance of the tent as the day grew hot. ²Looking up, he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them and, bowing to the ground, ³he said, “My lords, if it please you, do not go on past your servant. ⁴Let a little water be brought; bathe your feet and recline under the tree. ⁵And let me fetch a morsel of bread that you may refresh yourselves; then go on—seeing that you have come your servant’s way.” They replied, “Do as you have said.”

Genesis 18:1-5 

If one is studying the Shema in the Torah, and the time for reading the Shema has arrived:  if one had the Shema in mind then one is exempt from reading it.  Between the paragraphs of the Shema, one may greet another out of respect and respond.

Mishnah, Berachot, 2:1

Ben Zoma said: What labors Adam had to carry out before he obtained bread to eat!  He ploughed, he sowed, he reaped, he bound [the sheaves], he threshed and winnowed and selected the ears, he ground [them], and sifted [the flour], he kneaded and baked, and then at last he ate; whereas I get up, and find all these things done for me.

Babylonian Talmud: Berachot 58a 

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