An open road on a beautiful day, with your kids in the back seat, maybe even a picnic lunch; what could be more perfect?
I will always wonder what Tali Hatuel, eight months pregnant, with her four …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/11/17
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Our son Yair, after a grueling process, was recently accepted into an elite unit within the paratroopers, and we were invited after two months to visit his base for a special “parents’ …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/30/18
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Recently, my brother shared with me the following story: Yuli Edelstein the speaker of the Knesset, was visiting a small school in Beitar Illit (Le’tzion Be’Rinah) and shared the …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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1/5/17
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There is a powerful story I heard many years ago but never shared publicly, considering it too fantastic to possibly be true. But having recently read an accounting of it in Yitta Halberstam’s …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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10/10/17
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It started out as just another inspection. It was Friday afternoon, and after a week of intense maneuvers with little sleep, followed by the weekly servicing of our tanks all night long. We were …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/31/16
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Once, in the midst of a class, I noticed a student’s eyes begin to water. We were having a discussion about identity, and how we tap into who we really are.
In tears, he explained how he had …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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11/23/22
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This week we celebrate the festival of Shavuot, commemorating a moment, 3200 years ago, when we all stood together, beneath a wind-swept mountain, deep in the Sinai desert.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/24/12
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In the fall of 2012, Israel was again preparing for war in response to the thousands of missiles being fired indiscriminately from the Gaza strip onto the population centers of southern Israel. As …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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3/2/16
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I remember the first Mishnah I ever learned, and it wasn’t in a classroom.
The synagogue we attended when I was five years old had a strict decorum, and I recall the challenges this …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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9/2/20
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I can still remember the feeling of the weight seeming to lift from my shoulders. It was the summer of 1986, and I had just returned my gear after four-and-a-half years in the Israeli army. …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/23/21
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