We typically imagine that the Mishkan is defined by the beams that stood together to become its walls. After all, without walls, there is no building.
While a simple view of the Torah’s …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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2/19/15
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Sixteen hundred Jews, mostly elderly and families with children, protected by barely two hundred fighters; the odds for the besieged Jewish quarter of the old city of Jerusalem in 1948, were beyond …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/19/15
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Aong with all the challenging events of this part summer including the terrible kidnapping and murder of Gilad, Eyal and Naftali, I heard an incredible story:
A teacher in a resource room for …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/11/15
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Being in touch with the various Jewish media outlets, one is never at a loss for conversation. Topics that appeal specifically to Jewish interests keep us all on our toes.
Last week I came across …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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2/11/15
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After arriving at Mt. Sinai at the beginning of the third month, we are told in 19:3 that in going up the mountain, “Moshe went up to the Elokim,” which is followed by “and …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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2/4/15
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It was her eyes that really captured me; there was an intense sadness there mixed with pain, and yet every now and then a flash of fire that seemed to suggest … defiance?
As the …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/4/15
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A heteronym in the Torah appears in three contexts which have too many parallels to be ignored. The prophetess Miriam (M-R-Y-M) appears on the scene to sing about the splitting of the sea, …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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1/29/15
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There are many accounts in the midrash about the purpose of the plagues. While the overwhelming approach is that the plagues were meant to be “measure for measure punishment against the …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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1/22/15
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The sport of rapelling (or sneppling, as it is known in Israel), is the art of descending from a cliff by sliding down a rope which is sunken into the mountain above with stakes.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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1/22/15
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For these things I weep; my eye, yea my eye, sheds tears, for the comforter to restore my soul is removed from me; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.” (Eichah …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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1/15/15
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