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Shelach 5765 - June 24, 2005

 Inner Dimensions
The Angels and Us

These guys are heavily into the divine energy; you could call them spiritual junkies. Face it: the most successful soul here below cannot hope to dance as gracefully as the clumsiest malach...
 Parshah
Shelach in a Nutshell
Numbers 13:1–15:41

Overly spiritual spies, the first Tisha B’Av, quixotic mountain scalers, consecrated dough, wrongly gathered sticks and rightly knotted strings, and quantities of meal, wine and oil . . .
 Current
A New Road Map for Peace

It's been like trying to get to the Golden Gate Bridge using a map of Lower Manhattan. The problem has nothing to do with traffic jams or poor driving; it has everything to do with using the wrong map
 Essay
Human or Beast?
The Torah's views and safeguards against sexual abuse


To many, these laws appear extreme, over-reactive and unnecessary. A little 1st-grader can't hug her daddy's best friend? Two adult co-workers of the opposite sex can’t work alone in the office to finish an important project?
 Story
The Wheel of Life

The visitor lost no time in explaining to the Baal Shem Tov that he had no special needs or problems which required any intervention or blessing. “Perhaps you’d like to hear a story, then?” asked the chassidic master.
 Question
The Kabbalah of the Tallit

The garment surrounds our body, the fringes hang off it. They represent the two aspects of G-d's being: His true self that is totally beyond our grasp, and the tiny fraction of His being we can experience
 Parenting
A House of Books

To produce the wunderkind mothers and fathers will put themselves and their child through a rigorous schedule of classes, concerts, museum visits... But parenting is as much about who you are than about what you do
Daily Quotes
Daily Thoughts

One who increases flesh, increases worms; one who increases possessions, increases worry
— Hillel (Ethics of the Fathers 2:7)




The Harder Easier Path

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