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Devarim 5767 - July 20, 2007
Living
Fireworks!
This year, the fireworks lasted. In fact they're still there, bright and colorful, turning summersaults in the sky. Let me explain how that happened...
This year, the fireworks lasted. In fact they're still there, bright and colorful, turning summersaults in the sky. Let me explain how that happened...
Living Together Before Marriage?
My boyfriend says that he wouldn't feel comfortable committing to someone he hasn't lived with first. It still doesn't seem right to me, but he seems to have a valid point...
My boyfriend says that he wouldn't feel comfortable committing to someone he hasn't lived with first. It still doesn't seem right to me, but he seems to have a valid point...
Chassidic Thought
The Act of Knowing
Imagine if everyone saw you as you really are, as you see yourself. And you looked at everyone else and saw them as they see themselves. Our world would be a very different place, wouldn't it?
Imagine if everyone saw you as you really are, as you see yourself. And you looked at everyone else and saw them as they see themselves. Our world would be a very different place, wouldn't it?
Beggars at a Wedding
The day of the wedding arrived. Hundreds of beggars took their places around tables laden with the best food money could buy. But then tragedy struck . . .
The day of the wedding arrived. Hundreds of beggars took their places around tables laden with the best food money could buy. But then tragedy struck . . .
The Fallen Sparks of Tohu
The very core of reality is G-d’s shattered dream, waiting for us to pick up the pieces.
The very core of reality is G-d’s shattered dream, waiting for us to pick up the pieces.
The Jewish Woman
The Plunge
For the first time in my life, there is no visible record of my accomplishments. In fact, when done well, it is impossible to perceive parenting being done at all...
For the first time in my life, there is no visible record of my accomplishments. In fact, when done well, it is impossible to perceive parenting being done at all...
Parshah
The Parshah in a Nutshell
For thirty-seven days Moses talks: recalling, reminding, rebuking, warning, promising; about the revelation at Sinai and their journeys through the desert, about spies and wars and victories and the Land, and what it’s like to serve as a leader of G‑d’s chosen people.
For thirty-seven days Moses talks: recalling, reminding, rebuking, warning, promising; about the revelation at Sinai and their journeys through the desert, about spies and wars and victories and the Land, and what it’s like to serve as a leader of G‑d’s chosen people.
Our Dialogue With G-d
The second level emerges when Torah becomes not just an acquisition of knowledge and a subject-object encounter—an “I” facing “it”—but a personal meeting place, an “I” facing “you,” or better yet, a “we” relationship . . .
The second level emerges when Torah becomes not just an acquisition of knowledge and a subject-object encounter—an “I” facing “it”—but a personal meeting place, an “I” facing “you,” or better yet, a “we” relationship . . .
Know Where You Are Coming From
Moving forward is essential, but in order to do so we must understand where we are coming from
Moving forward is essential, but in order to do so we must understand where we are coming from
The Vacuum of Choice
On whose initiative were the spies sent? The way the story is told in Numbers 13, it was by divine command. But when Moses recounts these events 40 years later, he tells the people of Israel that it was their idea. The contradiction describes a watershed in the history of freedom of choice.
On whose initiative were the spies sent? The way the story is told in Numbers 13, it was by divine command. But when Moses recounts these events 40 years later, he tells the people of Israel that it was their idea. The contradiction describes a watershed in the history of freedom of choice.
News
It's Nine Days of Fish for Beijing's Only Kosher Restaurant
Beijing's only kosher restaurant has placed an added emphasis on fish over chicken and beef in its highly popular menu.
Beijing's only kosher restaurant has placed an added emphasis on fish over chicken and beef in its highly popular menu.
Teachers Forgo Vacation to Focus on Innovation
One hundred teachers, educators and principals gathered in Newark, N.J., to sharpen their skills.
One hundred teachers, educators and principals gathered in Newark, N.J., to sharpen their skills.
When Moshiach will come (speedily in our time, amen), then we will truly long for the days of the exile--during which we were able to truly serve G-d...
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch (1860-1920)
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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