Bereishit 5769 - October 24, 2008 |
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The Ultimate Seduction
By Elad Nehorai
I love the beginning of a relationship. It's a blast. I go out to exciting places and eat wonderful dinners.Then comes the boring stuff... |
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Anger and Love—Do they Mix?
By Avrohom Kass
Love and anger cannot coexist together. Anger will always push away love. A person cannot ingest poison and then remain healthy; so, too, a person cannot receive anger and still feel loving toward the angry person. |
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Ripple Effects
By Chana Weisberg
After Lawrence and Esther met only a few times, Lawrence proposed. Though Esther felt that this was her dream come true, she still felt she had to "sort things out." |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
The first man, the first sleep, the first marriage, the first sin, the first suit of clothes, the first childbirth, the first war... If it's going to happen in the story of man, it's in the first Parshah of the book of Genesis |
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Did You Ask To Be Born?
By Yanki Tauber
What kind of "free choice" do we have, if we didn't choose to be presented with that choice? |
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The Heavens and the Earth
By Shais Taub
"In the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth." To discover the mystical light hidden within these words, we will have to re-read them in a new way |
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Something from Nothing
By Yaakov Brawer
It is not easy to understand how a world view that leads nowhere and ultimately explains nothing became so rooted in the human psyche |
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Woman and the Forbidden Fruit
By Chana Weisberg
The sin of the Tree of Knowledge, is one of the most perplexing episodes in the Torah. Insight into the story sheds light on women's unique qualities and role in the process of redemption |
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Achieving Man 2.0
By Tzvi Freeman
Woman was upgraded. The problem is, Adam wasn't... |
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G‑d's Business
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Was Adam and Eve's sin part of "the plan"? |
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Transmuting Impatience
By Yehudis Fishman
Since leaving the Garden of Eden, human impulse is an admixture of both good and evil. Our task is not to squelch the impulse but to mine it, by toning down the mine aspect. |
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Chavah: Mother of All Life
By Sara Esther Crispe
The first woman, Chava, is called the "mother of all life" for she is the source of joy, experience and creation. |
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The Ladies Club
By Gavriella Lerner
"Mommy has to go to the ladies' club. She will only be there a little bit. We have to wait here because we are not ladies." Even at three, I shared his trait of quick-thinking and responded, "You are not a lady, but I am! You call me your 'little lady' all the time!" He smiled and laughed at both my wit and my innocence... |
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S. Thomas’ Jews Celebrate ‘Sukkot Miracle’ of the Hurricane That Wasn’t
By Joshua Runyan
Radio stations throughout the U.S. Virgin Islands are talking about Divine intervention after Hurricane Omar abruptly shifted course and spared the island of S. Thomas. |
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Dancing with the Torah
On Simchat Torah, the Torah, too, wants to dance, so we become the Torah's dancing feet... |
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Souls in the Rain
By Yosef Y. Jacobson
As in a marriage, when the wedding-party is over the couple's true intimate life be begins, Shemini Atzeret is described as the "time of intimacy with the Divine" At this time, we ask for rain - the symbol of intimacy between heaven and earth. |
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Torah in the Winter
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Why do we celebrate our relationship with the Torah on Simchat Torah, and not on Shavuot, the day we received the Torah? |
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"This Is My Torah Scroll"
By Ruth Benjamin
The soldier stared at the boy, fighting back tears. "Over these four terrible years, this is the first live Jewish child I have seen..." |
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