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November 8, 2025 – 8:46 pm | Comments Off on Chayei Sarah: Preserve the Stem, the Rest Will Grow40 views

The Torah teaches that every mitzvah is vital, yet all of Judaism rests upon a single stem— faith in G-d and in the truth of the Torah. If that stem remains alive, everything else can grow from it.

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Terumah: Escapism Is Not A Solution

February 29, 2012 – 10:15 pm | Comments Off on Terumah: Escapism Is Not A Solution3,182 views
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Build A Sanctuary
There is not a neighborhood in the world without drawbacks, nor a community without problems. No matter how lovely the school, synagogue or organization appears on the outside its flaws and fissures are always discovered when we make its acquaintance from the inside. There are always those, who …

Emor: Win Them With Love

May 3, 2009 – 4:23 am | Comments Off on Emor: Win Them With Love3,075 views
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The Problem
We live in an age of twenty-four hour news cycles. The need to fill the air with constant news serves to lower the journalistic bar. The media used to award at least a measure of privacy to public figures. That age is long gone; today outing a prominent politician …