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Tetzaveh 5762 - February 22, 2002

Editor's Note:

Editor's note:

This week is Moses' birthday, the week we read all about Aaron's clothes and his role as a lamplighter, the week we remember what Amalek did to us and get all riled up about evil, and the week we prepare for the joyous festival of Purim. How are all these connected? Let us count the ways...

Daily Thought
Daily Quote
 Moses Disappears
By Yanki Tauber
When a Jew abandons Torah, does he or she lose their connection with G-d? Or is it the Torah that loses its connection with G-d?
 Parshah
Tetzaveh Home Page
Exodus 27:20-30:10
Two brothers, four sons, eight priestly garments, twelve gems, one golden altar, and a quantity of oil and incense... Also: who was Aaron, what are clothes, a discussion on noise, princesses on horseback, a nameless Moses and the anatomy of a flame
 Tetzaveh in a Nutshell
Exodus 27:20–30:10
Who was Aaron, what are clothes, a discussion on noise, princesses on horseback, twelve gems, oil and incense...
 Do We Have All the Answers?
By Tzvi Freeman
If evil had some explanation that we understood, would we be as outraged as we are now in the face of its incomprehensibility? Would we abhor it as much, would we fight it as vehemently?
 Voices
A Cheder in Siberia
A conversation with Reb Mendel Futerfas
To my right sat my friend Berl, and to my left my friend Zalman. Yossel sat in front of me. The melamed was tall, with stern eyes, but with a warm and loving smile.
 Story
The Dancing Jews
By Eliezer Steinman
The Baal Shem Tov was once asked: "Why do Chassidim burst into song and dance at the slightest provocation? Is this the behavior of a sane person?"
 Purim Review
Insights, stories, essays and funny stuff
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...

Every Jewish soul possesses a spark of the soul of Moses
— Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar




Normal Miracles
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