When giving is giving

In a home, in a relationship, in any situation where people work together, each side has to give.

What you give is not so important. How you give is.

You have to want to give.

~ R. Tzvi Freeman

There is giving that is real giving, and there is giving that is really taking. This depends on whether the receiver appreciates the gift.

Entering the teivah, entering the word

G-d told Noah, "Go into the ark (teivah)." "Teivah" can also mean "word," and the Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that this means to enter into the words of Torah and prayer. This is a refuge against the tumultuous "waters" of worldly concerns of seeking a livelihood, etc., and also will help reduce those same pressures in their source and root.

It appears to me that there are two ways of "entering into the words" of Torah and prayer: to be "batel bemetzius," and to be "batel bayeish."