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Pinchas 5764 - July 9, 2004

Life: Three Methods

Three ways to acquire a home. Three ways to get married. Three ways to do everything and anything in life
Parshah
Pinchas in a Nutshell
Pinchas is rewarded for his zealotry. Another census, the laws of inheritance, and the division of the Land of Israel. Moses appoints Joshua as his successor.
The Reinvention of Man

Two thousand years after all the sages of Israel, both the pessimists and the optimists, agreed that man was a failed experiment, the Rebbe re-opened the question...
Honoring the Dead

As Israel witnessed this inhumanity in disbelief, we knew that it would be our mission, as the IDF burial unit, to retrieve whatever we could, regardless of the risk involved...
Story
Dishwater

Every week, the family cow tethered in my grandmother's yard received a special treat: the pan of water in which the Shabbat pots and dishes had been rinsed...
Destruction & Renewal
With the fast day of Tammuz 17 this year, Tuesday, July 6, 2004, we enter "The Three Weeks" of mourning and repentance, remembering the destruction of the Holy Temple and dedicating ourselves to its renewal
In that generation the women repaired what the men broke down. The men gave their gold for the making of the Calf; the women refused. The men had been unwilling to enter the Land [in wake of the Spies' report]; the women [i.e., the daughters of Tzelafchad] petitioned to receive an inheritance in the Land
— Midrash Rabbah (on Numbers 27:1)
Print Magazine

How to unmask a blessing in disguise:

Stare it in the face and say, “I know you are not just a lousy day or bad luck. I know you are a good friend—even if for the life of me I cannot determine how. I know there is only one Source of All Things, and nothing can convince me that evil descends from Above. Evil descends fr...

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