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The Top 7 Things I Love About Being Jewish
We are humans, not machines. Perfection isn’t the goal; growth is. Even the greatest leaders in Jewish history, starting from Abraham and Moses, made some serious mistakes. No one is infallible.
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Encounter With Totality
The Baal Shem Tov taught that we must learn from everything we see. Unexpectedly, seeing through eclipse glasses taught me something tangible about how change can work and especially how the unfolding...
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Inspiring Insights For Your Seder Night
The Seder night serves as an opportunity to pass over our mesorah, our tradition and legacy, to the next generation. It's a night when we speak about emunah, the meaning of being a Jew, and our purpose...
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DAYENU!
There is an ongoing debate amongst scholars as to whether the earliest text of Dayenu was created before or after the destruction of the Second Temple.
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A Blueprint For A Successful Life
Just like when we head out on a trip, we have our Waze programmed so that we know each step of the way, or we get our AAA Tripkits, so too, when we navigate the Seas of Life, we should crystallize in...
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The Machine Matzah Controversy: A History – Rabbis, Matzah, and Invention
The Ksav Sofer also dismissed the square matzah concern by stating, In the merit of the four-cornered matzos, may Hashem redeem us from the four corners of the earth.
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In Every Generation They Wish To Destroy Us
In every generation a different Pharaoh-type enemy of the Jewish people emerges. The 20th century has been no exception.
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Who Has Another Land?
Israel has not yet been, and still is not, the safest place in the world for Jews. But not everyone has the option to live in the safest place in the world – many people just need somewhere that is...
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Seeking Forgiveness
A person who tells disparaging stories of others that are untrue in order to find favor by others is punished from Heaven. He is afflicted with leprosy, he becomes impure, he has to be isolated and...
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Fooling G-d?
I greatly enjoyed studying all of these works, and I especially enjoyed reading them together. Each offers something important that the others do not, and each is an outstanding example of a different...
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The First Translated Sephardic Siddur In The New World
Leeser is best remembered for his extensive English translations and prolific writing for the American Jewish community, having authored numerous books and translations, edited a newspaper and full...
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Cleaning House (And Mind)
What is the significance of the counterintuitive approach advanced by the Raavya? What is gained by making bedikas and biur chametz intrinsically important within thirty days of Pesach, rather than...
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Shabbat HaGadol: Overcoming The Schemes Of Our Enemies
They know that when Israel is faithfully performing the will of the Creator, then they have no power over us, but if, G-d forbid, Israel deviates from the proper course of action, they know their...
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Making Vaykikra Accessible And Meaningful
The author’s treatment of Yom Kippur is surprising. Rather than define the day in its more familiar sense, as a day of atonement, Rabbi Fohrman focuses on the language around the fact that Aharon’s...
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Is There Such Thing As Lashon Tov?
The disciples of Hillel hold that at a wedding you should sing that the bride is beautiful, whether she is or not.
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The Clothes Make The Man
A person’s possession is not merely a thing, it is a means by which the world and he interact. Our possessions have an impact on us.
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Another Haggadah Gem From Martin Bodek – Plus A Tribute Memoir To His Zaidy
That feeling of freedom after years of emotional and physical torture can be felt even more fully when reading Bodek’s Zaidy’s War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man’s Impossible...
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Where Is Moshe?
Despite the fact that G-d could redeem the Children of Israel without a human agent, He chooses not to. He waits for us, waiting for us to step up, volunteer, and lead.
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Local Politicians Greet Passover Shoppers In Monsey
I’ve been watching politics for many years. We always see you [Weber] here. As far as I’m concerned, you, Michael Lawler and you, Mr. McGowan, are the most active politicians here. We always see you...
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