These and Those

Auschwitz I (the main Auschwitz camp) has been turned into a museum.
I have photographs of the museum displays at Auschwitz I… photographs of human hair and human hair woven into cloth, of spectacles, frames, and lenses, of tallitot (plural form of tallit), of bowls, plates, and cups, of prosthetic limbs and canes, of suitcases with [...]

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So when I came to Pardes, I wanted to know what the word itself actually meant. I googled it and found that Pardes literally translates as “orchard.” Huh?  Now I know this is a nice image but what does it have to do with studying Torah? Apparently quite a lot.
Text study in general can seem [...]

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