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Shemini 5763 - March 28, 2003

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Home Front

Remember those black-and-white WWII photos of heavy hearts, last goodbyes, care packages, crackly radio reports, and that hovering, ominous cloud of uncertainty? With my wife's brother in the 101st Airborne, now I'm it
 Parshah
Shemini in a Nutshell
Leviticus 9:1–11:47

G-d specifies which animals are kosher and which are not, as well as the laws of ritual purity. The priests begin their service, but two of Aaron’s sons die while offering incense.
 Idea of the Week
Food: an Anthology

Thirty essays and stories on the cosmology and geometry, wonder and whimsy, guilt and desire, politics and economics, history and future, the Talmud and the Kabbalah of food
 Inner Dimensions
The Oil of Wisdom

Become very aware of this circuit -- wax, wick, flame, and light. Internalize this sequence into your life: wisdom, body, consciousness, and enlightenment
 Story
The Rabbi and the Ox

One day, the neighborhood butcher came to the study of Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz (1730-1805), the famed rabbi of Frankfurt, with an halachic query...
 Parenting
Be Careful with your Words

We cannot always control what our children hear from others; but we should at least be careful with what they hear from the most important people in their lives -- their parents and teachers
Daily Thoughts
Daily Quotes

When the Holy Temple was in existence, the Altar atoned for Israel; today, a person's table atones for him
— Talmud, Berachot 55a




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