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Ki Teitzei 5765 - September 16, 2005

Our Enemies, Our Selves

"Know your enemy" is often the key to knowing yourself. And knowing yourself is always the key to defeating your enemies...
Parshah
Ki Teitzei in a Nutshell
The law of the beautiful captive and the rebellious son, the hybrid garment and the falsely accused spouse, the hungry employee and a dead brother’s wife, how to get married and when to get divorced—and sixty-six other mitzvot.
Being in Time: A New Orleans Journal

There was something about the immense love that permeated the home that made it hard to believe that outside those walls, the foundation of everything around us was being ripped to shreds...
Story
The Prayers in the Field

As soon as the holy day was over, the man rode into Mezhibuzh, despondent and heartbroken. But the Baal Shem greeted him full of joy
The Survivor's Prayer

Over this one thing
I implore You:
That my cup of gratitude
With a tear is laced
Parenting
The Abandoned Baby Syndrome

A well-known rabbi once said to me, "Never write anything controversial. You'll only make enemies, and it won't help." So I hesitated to write this article...
G-d created the world in six days. What does He do since then? He sits and matches up marriage partners...
— Midrash Rabbah, Bereishit 68
Print Magazine

Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.

In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.

These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”

Here’...

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