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 | Wanton Hatred, Wanton Love
By Zalman ShmotkinWe all look for consolation, and we seek to console. But the sheer enormity of the evil we just experienced is so hideous, so repellent, we’re left with no words.
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 | Today I Saw Evil
By Yori YanoverThis is what a satanic act looks like: Bright, metallic, swinging with ease across the sky, turning with complete mastery of the laws of physics, the laws of life and death, the laws of pain and fear . . .
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 | A Soldier's Boots
By Colonel Jacob GoldsteinThat night, for the first time in my 26 years in the military, I didn't clean my boots. I have not cleaned then since. When my mission here is completed these boots will be buried |  |
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 | When Heaven is Evil
By Manis FriedmanYou can have two religions or five or fifty and it's okay. Pray on a carpet, on your knees, standing up. Whatever. But when it comes to morality there is only one G-d
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 | Dancing on 9/11?
By Dovi ScheinerAs rescue workers sifted through the rubble, Esther and I donned our hard hats and headed towards our
chupah, just over the bridge in Brooklyn. With a plume of black smoke suspended in the skies above our wedding canopy, it was clear to that our challenge would be to build more than a Jewish home
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 | Why I'm Not Afraid
By Tzvi FreemanA War on Terror means just that: a war not to be terrified by those who want you to be. If you're afraid, they've just won another battle -- and I'm not a loser...
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 | Twin Towers - A Spiritual Reincarnation
By Laibl WolfWhy was I witness? Can I possibly understand the purpose of death, pain and suffering? No. But I can choose to learn from it. You are a child of a living, pulsating, compassionate Creator. Do it and live it. Reincarnate the souls of those torn so rudely from us.
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 | The Sacred and the Good
By Jay LitvinA line was drawn in the sand. On September 11, the line became crude, the divisions crystal clear. But between good and evil are many gradations; both lie within a larger field that unites them. Indeed, if this were not the case, then we on the side of good could have no effect on evil . . .
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 | Life After Terror
By Jay LitvinTerror can become imbedded in the bone and tissue. It can go right down to the cellular level and be held there, embraced there, entrapped there for a lifetime. What can we do for those who are already its victim?
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| Silence
By Tali LoewenthalThe power to be silent at certain moments of life and of history is an important strength. It expresses the awareness that G-d is infinite, and cannot be encapsulated in our human conceptions of what should take place... |  |
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 | Nine, Eleven and Ten
By Simon JacobsonWhere have I heard the numbers 9/11 before? Then it comes to me. In Sefer Yetzirah, the oldest Kabbalistic text, a cryptic phrase states: Ten sefirot of nothingness; ten and not nine, ten and not eleven |  |
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 | The Burning Palace
By Yosef Y. JacobsonA man was traveling when he saw a palace in flames. He wondered: "Is it possible that the palace lacks an owner?" Thus, says an ancient Midrash, Judaism was born
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 | Why Does Esau Hate Jacob?
By Yanki TauberEvil exists because it is so much more powerful than good. Is there lover in the world who loves with the intensity that a hater hates? Is there a light as bright as darkness is black? Has there ever been an act of kindness unleashed with the force and ferocity contained in an act of cruelty?
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 | Transcending Fear
By Yanki TauberFear has infiltrated our lives like a deadly white powder wafting through the soul of America. A seeping dread is slowly filling the space where our hearts used to be. Is there an answer to this fear? Is there some way to still this terror, to reclaim our supplanted hearts? |  |
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 | Fool's Hell
By Yanki TauberSome would say that we were living in a fool's paradise. Certainly others have known all along that the world is not a safe place. We beg to differ: it is not we who live in a fool's paradise, it is they who live in a fool's hell
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 | Should We Hate Them?
By Levi BrackmanMany of us are not quite sure how to react towards terrorists who have no qualms about killing huge amounts of people. Should we be angry with them or should we feel sorry for them?
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 | Remember: The Answer to Terrorism
By Sara Esther CrispeWhen we understand the root and essence of terrorism, we also understand how despite its awful power we can fight it, each and every one of us, until it is absolutely destroyed.
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 | Have We Put 9/11 Behind Us?
By Naftali SilberbergOn that morning, nearly 3,000 innocents lost their lives, and nearly 300 million lives lost their innocence. Americans lost their sense of security. Suddenly, we all felt so vulnerable.
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