The Good of the Good is Deeper than the Happy Each and every morning, upon seeing friends, neighbors and colleagues, we wish everyone a Boker Tov, a good day. After each Shabbat we wish everyone a Shavua Tov and after a special occasion, we wish people Mazal Tov. And each year, we wish each person a Shana Tova. The word tov/ ט֛וֹב is a probably one of the first words we all learn when first learning Hebrew. While the word literally means “good,“ upon learning the Shaarei Orah, the 800 year old book by R. Yosef Giqatillah, I realized something deeper and more unique about the word tov that we can bring into our everyday lives. The word tov, is actually the word of God. It appears as something that synthesizes materials or states of being to make them whole. The first example of this synthesis is in Breishit. After many of God’s creations, the word tov appears -- displaying how God took disparate materials and created complete creations from them. Be they physical components,
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