The Map

Everything here connects to something else here. Start anywhere.

Open the Map in 3D Every teaching as a light, every thread connecting them, Kol Tehom at the center.

Thirty-one pieces. Every line is an argument running between two of them. Tap one, or use the list below.

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At the Table The vessel, the order, and seven oils with the reason for each.
All the Oils Are Beautiful for the Lamp Shabbat 23a permits every oil. Rabbi Tarfon wanted olive alone and was overruled.

Tohu Not emptiness. A place already settled, which is why creation was aimed elsewhere.
Tehom Yosef is the only man in the Torah blessed with the deep, and he is blessed twice.
Baka One verb opens the deep, the sea, the dawn and the grave. Shaddai comes to 314.
Cheshvan The flood began on the seventeenth, and the rain prayer sits inside the resurrection blessing.
Under His Wings Avraham leaves one bird uncut. The world was hatched, not built.

Tzion The place the world came out of, entered through a water shaft.
Yosef The redeemer who inherited on a technicality, and who comes to 156 as Zion does.
Asof Asef One verb gathers the harvest, the soul, and the world. A lamp decides which.
Hakol Everything and the voice, one word to the ear and two on the page.
Nun Bent, straight, suspended, missing. Fifty gates, and Moshe got forty-nine.
Zion Before the Word The place standing before light was spoken. Torah goes out from it, and Torah is light.
Yosef, Master of Dreams Ba’al hachalomot, the owner of the dreams, and the mashbir who opened the storehouses to the world.
One Seal, No Two Alike Pharaoh’s ring and the drowning share a root. God stamps every person with one seal and none comes out the same.

Eliyahu The man with two keys, rain and the raising of the dead.
Zevulun The treasure buried in the sand.
Manna The food that gives more than it takes.
No Iron in the House Iron shortens life and the altar lengthens it. The shamir split mountains and seeds made them home.
The Altar on the Mountain of the Curse The eyeball mountain gets the altar and the joy. Both pictures of the day are true.
Baruch HaKol The bones came together at a sound. Blessing the whole inventory, and Genesis with God.
The Oil of Yonah’s Gourd Shemen kik, the oil left outside the lamp, and why a blend can carry it.

Shemen The word for soul contains the word for oil, and oil shares 390 with heaven.
Chorev A mountain whose name is the running of the two men who reached it.
The Pach One sealed flask out of a contaminated room. In modern Hebrew the word means bin.
Oil, from the Deep to the Flame The oil the Menorah asked for, and why the first drop.
Lighting Chanukah with Oil Why the Shulchan Aruch calls olive oil the choicest.
With Smells We Smelt Light Refining needs fire and a flux. Havdalah is that furnace with its agent in it.
Solomon’s Question, Answered by an Eggshell How a finite vessel holds what the heavens cannot.
Shabbat, the Weekly Appointment Listed first among the appointed times, before Pesach.

Reiach The sense that came through Eden unbroken, and the bar that runs the whole length.
Life Propagates Through Smell Every flower makes scent for its pollinator. The ant carries a harbour in her name.
The Mashiach Judges by Smell Yeshayahu 11:3 rules out sight and hearing for the redeemer.
Why the Soul Takes Only Smell Scent as the only currency a soul can be paid in.
Smell and Remembrance God remembers Noach, then smells the scent. The portion named azkarah.
The Home as Mishkan Berachot 55a moves the altar to the table.

Luz A bone that rebuilds a body and a city death cannot enter. Lamed and zayin come to 37.
Why a Candle Is Lit for the Dead Tefila and ptila, the same five letters with the mouth moved to the front.
The Mushroom Rises Without a Root It grows from the earth without drawing from it, and feeds on light in storage.
A Genizah Is a Vault Nignaz means stored, from the root of the king’s treasuries.

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