May 15, 2016

Time Needed for Creation

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There are frum people who find it necessary to distort Torah to fit with scientific theories such as Age of the Universe.  The fact that for...
May 13, 2016

Dishonoring Our Great People

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  A longstanding peeve of mine was reinforced today as I was listening to a shiur.  The person giving the shiur said, "I was walki...
May 1, 2016

Post-Pesach Gratitude

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A continuation of this  : I am grateful that this Pesach turned out so enjoyable with nary a glitch. I am grateful that we had mos...
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Apr 27, 2016

Beautiful Names

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Sometimes you hear people say, "What a beautiful name!" when they hear the name of a baby or are otherwise told about a name.  Q...
Apr 20, 2016

Experiencing the Seder

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  Rabbi Doniel Katz:   "Pesach is a 'get out of jail free' card, a jail break for your soul.  Every challenge t...
Apr 19, 2016

Pesach: I am Grateful for ...

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The following is based on an article by SC Radcliffe with some of her ideas and some of mine as applied to Pesach.  Feel free to adjust th...
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Apr 18, 2016

Constant Creation

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  I'm reading this nice book, Adon Haniflaos - A Lesson a Day, which is about "opening our eyes to see the amazing wonders of ...
Apr 17, 2016

Attitudes about Giving

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Dennis Eisenberg was interviewed by Mishpacha magazine.  He trains yeshiva administrators after having been a successful yeshiva executive d...
Apr 16, 2016

A New Normal?

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A recent issue of Mishpacha's Family First included the following: 1) a mother writing about her nine year old son who looks normal bu...
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Apr 9, 2016

Unique Chesed

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As a follow-up to this post I wrote five years ago here about what makes our nation unique, here is something I read today:   A woman ...
Apr 3, 2016

Yet Another Reason

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I'm learning more and more reasons that explain the uniqueness of the yeshiva in Volozhin, see here. The first reason in my last post...
Apr 2, 2016

Love Yourself-Love Others?

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Rabbi Dr. A. Twerski, in his work with addicts, knew a woman, Bonnie, who had stayed off alcohol for a year.  During the winter, her furnace...
Mar 31, 2016

Why Not?

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Headline: Netanyahu to U.S. Senator: IDF and Israeli Police Do Not Execute “Bloodthirsty Terrorists” My question is, why not? Isn't ...
Mar 28, 2016

Attitudes Toward Simchas

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Time and again we read and hear (or at least I do) that it's our perspective and not the external event that makes a difference. I fin...
Mar 27, 2016

Betrayal?

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In a letter to the editor of Ami magazine, someone writes as follows: "There are many other instances where people try to protect fam...