Today, among other topics, the Talmud mentions that items have the same boundary (techum) of their owner, and brings a view that ownerless items have a boundary centered on where they were when Shabbat started. The Gemara asks about water in the clouds and in the ocean. If the water in clouds was limited to a certain boundary (meaning a man could not use water that had gone of it’s boundary), then the only way to drink rainwater on Shabbat would be if the same cloud had been overhead Friday night.
The Gemara answers that since the water in the clouds and in the ocean are always moving, they do not get locked into a set boundary at the start of Shabbat.
This is an interesting concept. A man who is changing, growing, developing cannot be locked down. Understand that other people want to understand you, to put you in a certain box to make it convenient for them to deal with you. This is especially true for women, they want to solve the mystery of man, to figure him out. It makes her much more interested if you are someone that requires effort to understand.
The flowing water metaphor teaches that when you cannot be pinned down as being one specific thing, then others cannot enclose you in their own definitions. When you are building yourself up and gaining in wisdom, developing your mission, then you can’t be easily put in a box.
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