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May 17, 2013
2:31 am

Naso: Suffering’s Reward

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” - Helen Keller The Torah makes a straightforward connection between doing good and......

May 9, 2013
10:00 pm

Bamidbar: Lions of Israel

“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.” -Jeremy Collier There are multiple accounts of the miracles of the Six Day War, when in......

April 25, 2013
7:49 pm

Emor: Repetitive Repetitions

“The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.” -Mahatma Gandhi Since......

April 18, 2013
5:29 pm

Kedoshim: With great power…

“He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.” -Henry Ward Beecher In the......

April 11, 2013
10:04 pm

Tazria: Holy Thumbs

According to a decades-old study, 92% of infants suck their thumb. Besides all of the normal physiological reasons, I think I’ve stumbled upon another reason for a baby’s fascination......

April 4, 2013
9:34 pm

Shmini: “Don’t Lecture Me…”

“What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.” -Thomas Sprat In Jewish tradition, the High Priest is granted a spectrum of ritual powers and responsibilities. One......

March 21, 2013
11:52 pm

Tzav: A Life for a Life

“Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give I give myself.” -Walt Whitman How does a person show thanks? How does one repay an......

March 15, 2013
8:05 pm

Carnivorous God

“The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.” -Elder Cloward A significant portion of the Torah concerns itself with......

March 7, 2013
10:18 pm

Temple Fast-Pass

“People don't go there anymore. It's too crowded.” -Yogi Berra Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Florida is the world’s most visited attraction with 17 million annual visitors to that......

February 28, 2013
10:04 pm

Ki Tisah: Win Friends and Influence People

“Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” -Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie, in......

February 21, 2013
7:46 pm

Tetzaveh: Rabbinic Stone Healing

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." -Voltaire Western medicine is typically disparaging of any treatments that cannot be confirmed by a......

February 14, 2013
11:53 pm

Trumah: Concentrated Divine Presence

“The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me then another is the quantity of heart I find in it.” -Jane Welsh Carlyle Man is often likened......

February 7, 2013
11:44 pm

Mishpatim: Divine Moisturizer

“You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.”-Deepak Chopra The clock of our doom starts ticking from the......

February 1, 2013
10:18 am

Yitro: Hold Thy God

“It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.” -William Cowper The Third Commandment of the famous Ten seems oddly underwhelming. One......

January 24, 2013
11:26 pm

Beshalach: Why Seven Days?

“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other......

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