Did you ever really pray for something you wanted? I mean, really fervently, desperately, pray hard for something that was vitally important to you? If you did, and I think we all pray this way …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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7/29/20
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I have kept my time-worn copy of Roget’s Thesaurus in my personal library since I was in the seventh grade. There are those who scoff at words, deeming them to be much weaker than …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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7/22/20
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Every so often, I come across a sentence of another person’s writing which expresses one of my own thoughts in a language far superior to my own.
Over the years, I have contemplated and …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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7/15/20
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In “The Koren Tehillim,” Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb presents practical takes on each of the 150 psalms …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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7/15/20
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These days, we find ourselves living in a new and different world. It was just this past Purim that we sat together in shul, listening to the reading of Megilat Esther. We exchanged mishloach …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Weinreb
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7/9/20
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Frustration. Disillusionment. But also insight and a lifelong intellectual perspective. That is how I would describe the experience I am about to share with you.
It started with Fyodor …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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7/3/20
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Conflict resolution is one of the most important tasks in human relations. Open up any newspaper and you will read of schoolchildren bullying each other, of married couples who are in bitter …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Weinreb
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6/24/20
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For the past several months, we have all been struggling with the terrible COVID-19 pandemic. We have heard our share of sad and tragic stories, and many have had to cope with very frightening …
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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6/17/20
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It was a lesson I learned long ago, when I was a high school teacher. I was new at this line of work and found that my greatest challenge was to find ways to motivate the students. I tried …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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6/10/20
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All beginning students of Torah face this obstacle: In their original, the primary texts of our Jewish tradition have no punctuation. There are neither commas nor periods in the Torah scroll. …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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5/28/20
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