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A Zen monk and I were standing together watching some Jewish women lighting Shabbat candles on Shabbat eve. He offered his interpretation of why the women covered their eyes when having lit the candles. He said that you cannot look at the light of Shabbat with the same eyes with which you see the light of shabbat. So the women had to close their weekday eyes and open new eyes - shabbat eyes. This presentation explicates my understanding of my Zen friend in terms of the ZEN concept of No-Mind. Then I apply this explication to some new readings of traditional Jewish texts, prominently by Reb Nachman of Breslav.
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