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| In Tribute and Celebration |
| | For a Jew, the Land of Israel is more than a place. It is a body for the soul of a people. Discover—and uncover—where Israel is in the heart of a Jew, and where the Jewishness is within the heart of Israel.
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| | To the Jew, Israel is more than just a place. A Jew does not travel to Israel, but returns there. By Tzvi Freeman |  |
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| | Moshe Levy was a sergeant in the IDF Special Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He is one of only forty people to be awarded the Israel Hero Medal. | |
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| Tazria-Metzora: Control Your Tongue... |
| | The dynamics of birth and the covenant of circumcision, the power of speech and the plague of whiteness, contaminating blood and purifying pools of water.
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| | Words carry the potential of causing catastrophic harm, often tearing asunder families and friendships. The destructive power of negative speech is surpassed only by the beneficial power of positive speech . . .
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| | Can you imagine a world bereft of evil talk, rumors, slander and gossip? What would it look like? By Chana Weisberg | |
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| | Sticks and stones break bones, but the damage wrought by negative words reaches far deeper, to the very soul.
By Yanki Tauber | |
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| | Most of the time, people who go around abusing and finding the negative in others are, in essence, unhappy people who have a lot of problems of their own.
By Yaakov Lieder | |
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| ...Or Shape Up |
| | What's a "spiritual"? It has all the trappings of the routine checkup we call a "physical"—height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress tests on the treadmill and up and down the little staircase . . .
By Yossy Goldman | |
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| | The condition of being a metzora is the product of an imbalance, similar to acne, which might be caused by a hormone imbalance. In the case of the metzora, the imbalance is spiritual in nature . . .
By Tali Loewenthal | |
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| | Retribution is very un-Jewish. For retribution leaves wounds in its wake. Rehabilitation is very Jewish. For rehabilitation cures and gives new life.
By Mendel Kalmenson | |
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| | The difference between the spiritual condition often translated as leprosy (tzaraat) and the physical ailment of the same name. By Yehoshua B. Gordon | |
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| Pirkei Avot: Lessons for Life |
| | Follow your bliss? If it's going to make other people like you, that's the thing to do? Not the sort of advice you'd expect from a Talmudic sage . . .
By Yanki Tauber | |
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| | People are busy rifling through the—dare I say it—junk. I must run. Run before I become entangled in that huge mess of possessions, aptly called "gar(b)age sale."
By Chana Perman | |
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| | While I don't gamble my money, I am not always so careful with my words. If I am upset, you will know. I will tell you.
By Sara Esther Crispe | |
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| | Learning how to heal from emotional pain from the past is not just about feeling better. It's about removing the one thing that most blocks us from living our true lives. By Shais Taub | |
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| Women's Lives |
| | The year is the same, the days are the same, but the months are different. It is a time quite individual -- created by G-d, especially for me...
By Roni Leob Richter | |
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| | Judaism is a profound rejection of cults, ancient and modern, that glorify death.
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | |
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| | Why is it that I find it easier to be kind to a complete stranger than to the ones with whom we live and essentially love the most?
by Mina Richler | |
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| | We pray all our lives for all our children to find the right person with whom to spend their lives—but when the last one does, you know things will never be the same again.
By Ann Goldberg | |
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| Torah Moments |
| | Those who lack scribal experience can commission the writing of a Torah. But most cannot afford this considerable expense. As such, we can fulfill the mitzvah by "purchasing a letter" in a Torah.
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| | They would gather around the hot drink and warm their bones with pannes and chassidic philosophy.
From the writings & talks of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch | |
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| Video Lectures |
| | This lecture begins with an overview of Maimonides' unparalleled contributions to Jewish scholarship, and then focuses on Maimonides' approach to explaining the biblical institution of slavery. By Joshua Getzler | |
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| | Professor of Yiddish studies Shlomo Berger presents three famous historical examples of how the Torah was translated into Yiddish in Eastern Europe throughout the centuries. By Shlomo Berger | |
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