ב"ה
Va'eira 5766 - January 27, 2006
Man as Verb
I'll let you in on a little surprise: Who says that yourself is the real you? Maybe the real you is not a subject, not an object, but a verb? Maybe the real you is to be found not in who you are but in those things you need to do?
I'll let you in on a little surprise: Who says that yourself is the real you? Maybe the real you is not a subject, not an object, but a verb? Maybe the real you is to be found not in who you are but in those things you need to do?
Parshah
Va’era in a Nutshell
G-d promises to redeem the Israelites from their oppression. Moses and Aaron repeatedly demand of Pharaoh to let the nation leave. The Egyptians experience the first seven plagues: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils and hail.
G-d promises to redeem the Israelites from their oppression. Moses and Aaron repeatedly demand of Pharaoh to let the nation leave. The Egyptians experience the first seven plagues: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils and hail.
My First Yizkor
For the first 33 years of my life, I never probed the reason why non-mourners leave the room. I was happy to be legally expelled from the synagogue and catch a schmooze with a fellow yizkor-evacuee...
For the first 33 years of my life, I never probed the reason why non-mourners leave the room. I was happy to be legally expelled from the synagogue and catch a schmooze with a fellow yizkor-evacuee...
Living
Vegetable Soup
There's nothing like a hot nourishing bowl of soup to soothe the mind -- and the ego...
There's nothing like a hot nourishing bowl of soup to soothe the mind -- and the ego...
Story
The Confused Camel
Why do I have this hump perched on my back? These weird long eye-lashes? These awkwardly-shaped feet?
Why do I have this hump perched on my back? These weird long eye-lashes? These awkwardly-shaped feet?
Baby Basket Gridlock on the Nile
Senior Weather/Catastrophe Correspondent Jono gives us a meteorological look at the ten plagues.
Senior Weather/Catastrophe Correspondent Jono gives us a meteorological look at the ten plagues.
Just like people's faces are all different, so, too, are their minds different
— Midrash Rabbah, Bamidbar 21
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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