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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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Sh’lach: Never Stop Loving

June 13, 2012 – 2:41 pm | Comments Off on Sh’lach: Never Stop Loving3,437 views
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LOL
When you see the popular texting term LOL do you read Lots of love or Laugh out Loud?
When you hear that Jews were sentenced to forty years of wandering the desert for believing the terrible report about Israel from the ten spies, you have to wonder, should we Laugh out …

Shavuot: How To Celebrate An Anniversary?

May 21, 2012 – 1:20 am | Comments Off on Shavuot: How To Celebrate An Anniversary?3,295 views
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Ani-Very-Sorry
Shavuot is the anniversary of the day we received the Torah. Almost every year before my anniversary my friends ask, so what are you going to do for your anniversary? I submit that a much better question would be what is your anniversary going to do for you? And if …

Vayakhel Pekudei: The Heart of a Relationship

March 11, 2012 – 3:36 am | Comments Off on Vayakhel Pekudei: The Heart of a Relationship147 views
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The Ark
It was a building party. Hammers banging on anvils, saws cutting through wood, artisans weaving designs, all crafting, fashioning, designing and building a magnificent home for G-d. They set up the structure and spread out her covers. They readied the altars, show table and candelabra, but before those could …

Beshalach: Prayer – The Interface Of Love

January 29, 2012 – 4:08 am | Comments Off on Beshalach: Prayer – The Interface Of Love2,656 views
Prayer The Interface Of Love

An Age Old Question
Prayer is the oddest phenomenon. Human beings plead with G-d, who already knows what they want, who already considered and rejected their request before they ever made it and who made this decision for the very best reasons. And yet we ask an unchanging G-d to reconsider …

Vayeshev: Selling A Brother

December 12, 2011 – 4:12 pm | Comments Off on Vayeshev: Selling A Brother2,706 views
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The Five Rung Pole
There is a hierarchy to the things we love. At the bottom of the totem pole are the vane pursuits of life, such as power, money, success and prestige as well as the toys of life such as cars, houses, furniture and wardrobes. These things make a …

Re’eh: Charity From The Heart

August 21, 2011 – 3:08 am | Comments Off on Re’eh: Charity From The Heart6,786 views
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Unhappy Giving
I have a confession. I can’t stand being thanked for giving charity. I just hate it when the person to whom I gave a dollar smiles and heaps lifelong blessings upon me. I usually make a dismissive gesture, wait till they walk away, heave a small sigh of relief …

Devarim: Do You Love G-d or Youeself?

July 31, 2011 – 3:37 am | Comments Off on Devarim: Do You Love G-d or Youeself?2,946 views
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What have We Learned?
It is nearly two-thousand years since the Holy Temple stood as a glorious testament to G-d on the Temple Mount. It was ransacked and razed by a marauding mob that cared little for the nuanced relationship between the human and G-d. As the Temple smoldered in the …

Chukat: Love Your Children

June 26, 2011 – 3:34 am | Comments Off on Chukat: Love Your Children7,219 views
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What Actually Happened?
Something happened on that fateful day that resulted in the severe decree barring Moses and Aaron from entering the promised land. Here is the story in short: The people were parched from their long journey and demanded that Moses provide water. G-d instructed Moses to produce water from …