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Ki Teitzei 5769 - August 28, 2009
Living
Doron Almog: First Class General, First Rate Human Being
Major General Doron Almog's many years of courageous service in the IDF allow him much to be proud of. But he chooses to focus instead on another passion...one inspired by a severely handicapped child.
Major General Doron Almog's many years of courageous service in the IDF allow him much to be proud of. But he chooses to focus instead on another passion...one inspired by a severely handicapped child.
Rabbi Gives Gift of Life
When the opportunity arose for a Teaneck, N.J., rabbi to potentially risk his life in the preservation of another’s, he paused. He wanted to give one of his kidneys to a suffering man; the problem was how to tell his children.
When the opportunity arose for a Teaneck, N.J., rabbi to potentially risk his life in the preservation of another’s, he paused. He wanted to give one of his kidneys to a suffering man; the problem was how to tell his children.
The Big Knife
A little girl once asked the Lubavitcher Rebbe if nuclear energy was good or bad. The Rebbe, in typically Jewish fashion, answered a question with a question: is a knife good or bad?
A little girl once asked the Lubavitcher Rebbe if nuclear energy was good or bad. The Rebbe, in typically Jewish fashion, answered a question with a question: is a knife good or bad?
Kitchen Tiles and October 31st, 1978
Down there, on the ground, was the piece of art. That's what they called it, anyway. It was black-and-white checkerboard tile. It looked like somebody had cut a square out of a kitchen floor and placed it on the ground. "You're kidding, right?"
Down there, on the ground, was the piece of art. That's what they called it, anyway. It was black-and-white checkerboard tile. It looked like somebody had cut a square out of a kitchen floor and placed it on the ground. "You're kidding, right?"
Seasons
Longing For My Beloved
We spend our days running around and juggling our responsibilities. How do we get from here to there? Can we turn on a dime -- shifting from the mundane to the [spiritually] monumental?
We spend our days running around and juggling our responsibilities. How do we get from here to there? Can we turn on a dime -- shifting from the mundane to the [spiritually] monumental?
Parshah
The Parshah in a Nutshell
The law of the beautiful captive and the rebellious son, the hybrid garment and the falsely accused spouse, the hungry employee and a dead brother’s wife, how to get married and when to get divorced—and sixty-six other mitzvot.
The law of the beautiful captive and the rebellious son, the hybrid garment and the falsely accused spouse, the hungry employee and a dead brother’s wife, how to get married and when to get divorced—and sixty-six other mitzvot.
Our Enemies, Our Selves
"Know your enemy" is often the key to knowing yourself. And knowing yourself is always the key to defeating your enemies...
"Know your enemy" is often the key to knowing yourself. And knowing yourself is always the key to defeating your enemies...
What If You Mess Up?
Many of the Torah’s laws of marriage are derived from the passage (Deuteronomy 24:1–4) legislating divorce. Isn’t that kinda . . . strange?
Many of the Torah’s laws of marriage are derived from the passage (Deuteronomy 24:1–4) legislating divorce. Isn’t that kinda . . . strange?
The Skeptic
The skeptic can destroy, in an instant, understandings and commitments that take years to establish. What makes it difficult to contend with is his imperviousness to argument or debate. This is the spirit of the Biblical Amalek...
The skeptic can destroy, in an instant, understandings and commitments that take years to establish. What makes it difficult to contend with is his imperviousness to argument or debate. This is the spirit of the Biblical Amalek...
The Jewish Woman
The Juggler
the broken vase on the floor is just that, a broken vase—and the spilled milk is easily cleaned up. Women who watch me ask me how I have such patience. The patience comes with perspective...
the broken vase on the floor is just that, a broken vase—and the spilled milk is easily cleaned up. Women who watch me ask me how I have such patience. The patience comes with perspective...
The Two Sides of My Anger
And that is when I lost it. I felt my anger contracting my soul in order to make more room in my body to hold it...
And that is when I lost it. I felt my anger contracting my soul in order to make more room in my body to hold it...
The location of the Altar [in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem] is very exactly defined, and is never to be changed... It is a tradition that the place where David and Solomon built the Altar on the threshing floor of Arona, is the very place where Abraham built an altar and bound Isaac upon it; this is where Noah built [an altar] when he came out from the ark; this is where Cain and Abel brought their offerings; this is where Adam the First Man offered a korban when he was created -- and it is from [the earth of] this place that he was created
— Maimonides (Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Holy Temple, ch. 2)
Print Magazine
Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.
In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.
These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”
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