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Community Articles/Torah Message
Since Father's Day began in 1910, people have been giving cards, neckties and steak dinners as gifts. The day has also been a time when we reflect on our fathers, and how they have shaped our lives.
The classic joke about Jewish fathers goes like this: a young boy returning from school says to ...
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Community Articles/Torah Message
Parashat Eikev
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Community Articles/Torah Message
Parashat Naso
Even before the children of Israel received the Ten Commandments, they were told by G-d, “You are to be a mamlekhet kohanim,” (a kingdom of priests). One of our first communal obligations is to act as a nation of kohanim. How are we to embody this task in...
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Community Articles/Torah Message
Ethics of Our Fathers
Using the Spoken Word Properly
Shimon, the son of Rabbi Gamliel said, “All my life I have been raised among the Sages, and I have not found anything better for oneself than silence. Study is not the primary thing but action. Whoever...
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Community Articles/Torah Message
Rabbi Yannai said, “It is not in our power to explain neither the tranquility of the wicked nor the suffering of the righteous.”
(Chapter 4, Mishna 19)
This Mishna raises one of the classic questions of faith: Why do bad things happen to good people&mdash...
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Community Articles/Torah Message
Chapter 1, Mishna 14
He [Hillel] used to say, “If I am not for me who is for me, if I am for myself what am I, and if not now when?”
07/30/2007 | 406 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Many people are mystified by the often-quoted expression of our sages concerning
G-d’s judgment of mankind on Rosh Hashanah: “The Books of Life and Death are set before You.” This is a common mistranslation. In actuality, the statement reads, “The Books of the Living and t...
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