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Purim 5765 - March 25, 2005

 Comment
The Value of a Life
By Yanki Tauber
Can a human life be assigned a relative "value" based on its quality? And if it can, where does it end?
 The Right to Live
By Sara Esther Crispe
It's been five days since the feeding tube was removed from Terri Schiavo. By the time this article is posted, it will either have been reinstated, or she may already be dead...
 Inner Dimensions
Megillah With Commentary
By Yosef Marcus
The original text of the Megillah (Book of Esther) with a running commentary culled from the Talmud and Midrash, the great Torah commentators and the chassidic masters.
 Seasons of the Soul
Festival of Lots: a Purim Anthology
Compiled by Yanki Tauber
The difference between the gragger and the dreidel, why we disguise ourselves on Purim, the three points of the hamantash, Yom Kippur as the "day like Purim", Jewish drunks...
 Essay
The Inebriated State
By Lazer Gurkow
Why do we drink on Purim? As with all Jewish questions, the answer is found on four levels -- the technical, the symbolic, the homiletic and the mystical
 Story
Purim of the Curtains
By Gershon Kranzler
"Purim of the Curtains" used to be celebrated in the middle of the winter, on the twenty-second of Tevet, two months before our regular Purim…
 Verse
The One
By Zvi Yair
In my youth/ My eyes beheld/ Realities to the millions...
 Relationships
What's your Blind Spot?
By Yaakov Lieder
One of the most important people to have in your life is a "mentor-friend": someone who truly has your best interests at heart, who will tell you what you're doing wrong
 Parshah
Tzav in a Nutshell
Leviticus 6:1–8:36
The fire on the altar must remain burning at all times. Moses instructs Aaron and his sons (the priests) which parts of which sacrifices they are to eat, and which must be burned entirely. The priests spend seven days inside the Tabernacle during which time they are initiated into their service.
Daily Quotes
Daily Thoughts

At Mount Sinai, the Jewish people accepted the Torah out of awe; on Purim, they re-accepted it out of love
— Talmud




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