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Tzav: Fighting Evil
We are surrounded by evil; every so often, it rears its ugly head as it did on Simchat Torah—the October 7 massacre. Pure evil raped Jewish mothers, burned Jewish babies alive, mutilated their fathers, and beheaded their neighbors. Pure evil burned loving couples clinging to each other, to …

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Rosh Hashanah: Making A Tzimmes of Tzimmes

September 25, 2011 – 3:24 am | Comments Off on Rosh Hashanah: Making A Tzimmes of Tzimmes6,014 views
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Head or Hair?
Rosh Hashanah is not just the first day of the year, it is the head of the year.  A head serves two purposes: It is a platform for hair, as in a beautiful head of hair, and a housing apparatus for the brain.
The head is the seat of …

Chanukah: Lights of Joy and Inspiration

December 13, 2009 – 4:26 am | Comments Off on Chanukah: Lights of Joy and Inspiration3,023 views
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The Night And The Light
As dusk gathers and darkness approaches, night falls and gloom encroaches,
we seek inspiration anew. What is a person to do?
The answer is simple at this time of year, light a candle and banish the fear.

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Vayetze: Our Purpose

December 9, 2008 – 5:16 pm | Comments Off on Vayetze: Our Purpose2,856 views
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Look A Kippah
When I was growing up in Boston, Massachusetts, few Jews wore their Kippot (head coverings) outdoors. Seeing a man wearing a Kippa on the street always generated excitement: my siblings and I would point in awe and exclaim, “Look, there is a Jew.” We felt an immediate kinship …

Devarim: When Crying is not Enough

July 15, 2007 – 3:02 am | Comments Off on Devarim: When Crying is not Enough3,626 views
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Emotional Death
“Rabbi,” he wailed, “my wife of seventeen years has just passed on and I cannot live without her.” This cry pierced me to the core. I empathized and soothed in every way I could. In the end, the words that resonated with him were, “Don’t compound your wife’s physical …

Emor: The Joys of Restriction

April 30, 2006 – 5:32 pm | Comments Off on Emor: The Joys of Restriction3,341 views
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Soft Tones
In this week’s Parsha we are told of the many restrictions that were placed upon the Kohanim. (Priestly family) They may not attend funerals unless the deceased was a direct relation. Their choice of spouse is also restricted. But in instructing Moshe Rabeinu to convey the news of these …

The “Light” of Chanukah

December 25, 2005 – 2:36 am | Comments Off on The “Light” of Chanukah3,949 views
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A story is told of a man who was struggling along with an obviously heavy sack slung over his shoulder. The weather was hot and humid making his task arduous and tiring. A passer-by, clearly intrigued by this individual, asked him what it was that he had in the sack. …

Vayera: What’s in a Name?

November 13, 2005 – 2:03 am | Comments Off on Vayera: What’s in a Name?2,398 views
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He Made Me Laugh
When our matriarch Sarah gave birth to her son she was ninety years old. So ecstatic was she at this miraculous birth that she named her child, Yitzchak. Yitzchak means he will laugh and Sarah’s precise words were, “a laughter G-d has made for me, all that …