Reply To: Rav Wolbe

“Once, when my Rebbi Reb Yerucham was lying ill, we (his Talmidim) came to visit

him and found him with the thermometer in his hand. He said to us that on the thermometer

it has 34, 35 and up to 42 degrees Celsius.

What about the temperature above 42, why doesn’t that appear on the thermometer?

He explained that a person cannot exist with temperature above 42.

This is Teva (nature). Teva is limited and it can’t reach beyond a certain point.

Ruchnius (spirituality), is not so.

This is the way our Rebbi found a fine perception in the thermometer, that nature

is so limited.”

Verbatim from Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe z”l