ב"ה
Shemini 5763 - March 28, 2003
Current
Home Front
Remember those black-and-white WWII photos of heavy hearts, last goodbyes, care packages, crackly radio reports, and that hovering, ominous cloud of uncertainty? With my wife's brother in the 101st Airborne, now I'm it
Remember those black-and-white WWII photos of heavy hearts, last goodbyes, care packages, crackly radio reports, and that hovering, ominous cloud of uncertainty? With my wife's brother in the 101st Airborne, now I'm it
Parshah
Shemini in a Nutshell
G-d specifies which animals are kosher and which are not, as well as the laws of ritual purity. The priests begin their service, but two of Aaron’s sons die while offering incense.
G-d specifies which animals are kosher and which are not, as well as the laws of ritual purity. The priests begin their service, but two of Aaron’s sons die while offering incense.
Food: An Anthology
Thirty essays and stories on the cosmology and geometry, wonder and whimsy, guilt and desire, politics and economics, history and future, the Talmud and the Kabbalah of food
Thirty essays and stories on the cosmology and geometry, wonder and whimsy, guilt and desire, politics and economics, history and future, the Talmud and the Kabbalah of food
The Oil of Wisdom
Become very aware of this circuit -- wax, wick, flame, and light. Internalize this sequence into your life: wisdom, body, consciousness, and enlightenment
Become very aware of this circuit -- wax, wick, flame, and light. Internalize this sequence into your life: wisdom, body, consciousness, and enlightenment
Story
The Rabbi and the Ox
One day, the neighborhood butcher came to the study of Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz (1730-1805), the famed rabbi of Frankfurt, with an halachic query...
One day, the neighborhood butcher came to the study of Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz (1730-1805), the famed rabbi of Frankfurt, with an halachic query...
Parenting
Be Careful with your Words
We cannot always control what our children hear from others; but we should at least be careful with what they hear from the most important people in their lives -- their parents and teachers
We cannot always control what our children hear from others; but we should at least be careful with what they hear from the most important people in their lives -- their parents and teachers
When the Holy Temple was in existence, the Altar atoned for Israel; today, a person's table atones for him
— Talmud, Berachot 55a
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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