Mishpatim 5770 - February 12, 2010 |
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Rabbi, Why Is This Happening To Me?
By Chaim Mentz
How are we to deal with change in life that appears to be misfortune and cause for pain? A tale of two pails |
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Getting Closer
By Manis Friedman
Is our relationship with G-d predicated solely on "obedience" or is there something else at play as well? On the significance on the mitzvah |
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Studying Torah
By Ben-Tzion Krasnianski
Merging the finite and the infinite |
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Ancient Roots, Modern Miracles
by Shalom Pollack
From Jerusalem to Masada, join veteran tour-guide Shalom Pollack on a wondrous journey through Israel where the past, present and future all share the same space. |
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Goldstein & Fish Legal Services
Dovid Taub & Jonathan Goorvich
This week's Itche Kadoozy show is about the civil laws presented in Parshat Mishpatim. Or at least it would be if it wasn't interrupted by a commercial for Larry Goldstein's Law Firm. |
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A Super Bowl Symposium
By Naftali Silberberg
I called together a few people in the office for an impromptu football brainstorming session (a team game calls for a team effort...) Here are the results |
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Stuffed with Love
By Deena Yellin
My four-year-old son, not to be outdone, offered to collect stuffed animals at his nursery school. Soon, the animals were arriving at all hours and without notice. With each delivery, my daughter beamed... |
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The Number that Matters
By Jenna C.
59,023 people took the time to think about children with special needs and show their support. But there's a different number that matters much more |
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How to Intervene When You Witness a Wrong
By Simon Jacobson
If your intervention will not help solve, and possibly even exacerbate, the problem, do you intervene? If you are not positive that a crime has been committed, can you pass judgment? Can you act based on your "sense" that there is a serious problem? |
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Bogged Down in the Nitty-Gritty
By Tzippora Price
The big three refers to the three sources of conflict for married couples: who does the housework, how to divide up the childcare, and how to manage money. |
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Can't Take "No" for an Answer
By Sara Chana Radcliffe
Tali has a very good chance of growing up to be an obnoxious young lady. She may use badgering and battering to get what she wants. She will have learned the lesson that most people can't tolerate a scene... |
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To Be or To Become?
By Chana Weisberg
The source of much of our misery is that we view our lives in a limited way, as a snapshot, believing that what we hold now represents how we always were and will be. But everything in our world remains in a state of flux. At every moment there is enormous change... |
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Once Upon a Donkey
By Yanki Tauber
It was an age of boors and ascetics, a time of conflict between body and soul. Then a master appeared. "Don't beat your beast," he taught, "don't overload him and don't abandon him. Help him" |
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Partner
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The historical, personal and cosmic significance of the half-shekel |
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A Hypersensitive People
By Mendel Kalmenson
Did you know that G-d would rather you cooked pork chops than a cheeseburger? That’s right. There is no biblical injunction against cooking pork—although eating it is absolutely forbidden... But it is forbidden to even cook meat together with milk. |
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A Matter of Ethics
By Shlomo Yaffe
G‑d inserted the reading of Mishpatim before going back in time to discuss key elements of the narrative of the giving of the Torah. His way of saying: "Before you can receive the Torah fully—study Mishpatim! |
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Is Religion Still Relevant?
By Yossy Goldman
Cyberspace, outer space, inner space. Genome maps, globalization. Smart cards, smart bombs, stem cells and cell phones... Should we still need subscribe to an ancient code of laws when we are so further advanced than our ancestors? |
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Oxen and Cows
By Yanki Tauber
There are four approaches to understanding what the Torah is all about: a) it means what it says; b) it's all a metaphor; c) it should be read from the top down; or d) from the bottom up |
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A Modern World and Ancient Prophecies
By Rochel Holzkenner
In 1990, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait to solve Iraq's financial problems, the world was outraged. That kind of move was not considered cool anymore. Something had changed in our moral perceptions. |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Indentured servants, goring oxen, partially repaid loans, fined thieves, the separation of meat and milk -- the laws, the technicalities, the wider applications, and the deeper spiritual import of these and 48 other mitzvot |
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The Precious Coin
By Yerachmiel Tilles
A holy half-shekel reveals the importance of judging one's fellow favorably. |
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Keeping a Promise
By Mirish Kiszner
The newspaper of the Nazi party, "Der Sturmer," portrayed Rabbi Wiedenfeld as "the greatest Talmudist in the world," and placed him high on their black list. Thus the rabbi was forced to flee... |
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The Lawsuit
By Yanki Tauber
One Friday afternoon, a man knocked on the door of Rabbi Yizchak Eizik, rabbi of Vitebsk. "I have a din-torah (a matter of litigation)," he said. "I request that you hear my case..." |
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Seventy Kopeks
Told by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
That's the profit from the sale of a calf in the marketplace of the White Russian town of Lubavitch |
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The Spirit of the Laws
By Stacey Goldman
It sounds bizarre, but I have found that the more I live my life as an observant Jew, the more I seem to lose my Jewish identity... |
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Moran Sabbah
"I'm going to be a rock star!" I knew this was my life's mission, and so, at the age of fifteen I embarked on my journey, never looking back... |
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Truly Ugly People
By Sara Esther Crispe
On the most external level, we understand that more important than what is on the outside is what is on the inside. A pretty face with nothing behind it is worthless... |
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The Jewish Woman
The Jewish Woman is a site dedicated to providing Jewish women of all backgrounds intellectually challenging, emotionally uplifting and inspirationally stimulating articles. |
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Justice by Reincarnation
From the teachings of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
Jewish mysticism teaches that justice is often served in hidden ways. |
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The Powers of the Soul
From the writings of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
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Conference Brings Thousands of Jewish Women to New York
By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky
Some 2,500 Jewish community leaders are converging in Brooklyn, N.Y., this week for the 22nd annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. |
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Jewish Girl Scout Troop Blazes New Path
By Yonit Tanenbaum
The girls of Troop 3131 make up the first Jewish troop in the almost 100-year history of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. They’re spending their time earning merit badges and learning about leadership. |
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Moscow Seniors Prepare Five Tons of Fruit Salad
By Tamar Runyan
Jewish senior citizens at the Shaarei Tzedek center in Moscow enjoyed a large vat of fruit salad in honor of the holiday of Tu B’Shevat, a day popularly known as the New Year for trees and celebrated with the eating of fruit. |
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