We all love getting those cute three-minute video clips during the day that give us a laugh or a smile. Recently, someone sent me a clip that got me thinking. In it, a fellow gives his two sons a …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/7/23
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I was in a total fog during my first year in high school. I am convinced that my experience then was not unique. I entered a strange school, much larger than the one I had attended previously, …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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6/7/23
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There have been times when one passage in this week’s parsha, Behaaloscha, was, for me, little less than lifesaving.
No leadership position is easy. Leading Jews is harder still. And …
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By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt"l
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6/7/23
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Bamidbar is usually read on the Shabbat before Shavuot. Shavuot is the time of the giving of the Torah; “bamidbar” means “in the desert.” What is the connection between …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks zt"l
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5/18/23
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Years ago, after a very difficult month in Lebanon, someone higher up decided our unit needed a break. Every unit maintains a daily events log (yoman iruim). Every patrol, ambush, search and seize, …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/18/23
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We were exhausted, burned out. We felt that we needed a break.
There were just two of us: me and my study partner, Yisrael. We were both not quite twenty years old, students in the post high …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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5/18/23
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The Torah gives three examples of “Your brother becoming impoverished.” (V’khi yamukh achikha). The first has to do with selling family property, and how it returns to the …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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5/10/23
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Sefer Vayikra is the only book in Tanach where we find the expression, v’yarata m’elokecha (“and you shall have awe for your G-d”). It appears three times in Parashat …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/10/23
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It is an old word, and it describes a behavior that has been around since the beginning of history. Yet the word seems to me to be used more and more frequently these days, and the behavior it …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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5/10/23
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I argued in my “Covenant and Conversation” for parshat Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense, however, there is an important ethnic …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks zt"l
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5/10/23
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