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The Currency of Longing

There is a kind of money that cannot buy you anything useful. It cannot purchase land. It cannot purchase servants. It cannot even purchase salt. The only thing it can buy is food that you must carry to one specific city on earth and eat there, in the presence of something you cannot see. What kind of currency is that? And what does it say about the kind of wealth that actually matters?

Maaser Sheini 5-7Friday, June 19, 2026

The Currency of Longing

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The laws of maaser sheini reveal that holiness is not achieved by abandoning the physical world but by refusing to let the physical world remain ordinary — transforming produce into longing, longing into pilgrimage, and pilgrimage into the lived experience of standing before G-d.