Noach 5769 - October 31, 2009 |
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G-d, I want him back!
By Miriam Karp
"I feel I have joined a very exclusive club," Gershon pauses, "whose admission price is very steep. A club that allows you a special relationship with G‑d." |
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Have We Become Too Sensitive?
By Naftali Silberberg
Has the deliberate, laudable avoidance of focusing on others' weaknesses also led to a reluctance to focus on others' strengths -- for fear that it will hurt the self esteem of those who don't have those particular talents or strengths? |
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Do Jews Celebrate Halloween?
By Tzvi Freeman
I know its origins aren't very "Jewish," but I'm worried that my kids will feel left out if they can't go trick-n-treating in the neighborhood... |
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Teaching Self-Control
By Bracha Mirsky
My ten-year-old is a sweet boy who is usually pleasant and polite. However, he has a habit of calling my daughter names even though he is aware how sensitive she is, and sometimes, when he gets excited, he will grab her around the neck and squeeze her a little too hard. |
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Mind or Heart?
By Tzvi Freeman
Actually there are two hearts: the outer heart, forever chasing whatever looks good to it and barking at whatever looks like a threat; and an inner heart, where the fire of the soul burns in serene simplicity |
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World Peace - How Will It Be Achieved?
By Baruch S. Davidson
The fighting and unrest is because every entity feels itself to be a distinct identity, at odds with everything else which might impede its own desires or needs... |
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Why do Jews sway while praying?
By Menachem Posner
When we praise G‑d, we do so with all of our being: the mind, heart, and mouth express the prayer through speech, and the rest of the body does so by moving. |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Noah makes an ark, G-d floods the earth, a dove brings an olive branch, Shem and Japeth drag a blanket, men build a tower and the first Jew is born |
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Ark Sweet Ark
By Naftali Silberberg
Every day we wake up to a "flood" of worries, predicaments and responsibilities--"raging waters" that threaten to drown us financially, emotionally and spiritually |
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The Window
By Yanki Tauber
Noah’s dispatch of the dove from the ark; passive and active anticipation |
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The Rainbow in the Cloud
By Yaakov Paley
To touch some of heaven's radiance, then curve gracefully back towards the earth in a glorious ray of colors that are manmade reflections of G-d's truth and hope for mankind |
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Self-Consciousness and G-d-Consciousness
By Rabbi Ben A.
Noah sought to rebuild the world based on a new paradigm. He conceived of a more wholesome ideal – freedom from self-consciousness. With the best of intentions, Noah chose intoxication as his means... |
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Population Explosion
By Elisha Greenbaum
No person has ever declared on his or her deathbed, "I wish I'd had fewer children" |
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Braving a New World - Part I
By Shimona Tzukernik
One can well understand then that Noah was worried about bringing new life into the world. Why give birth, toil and work the program that living entails if all that is built could at a point in the future also be destroyed!? |
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Letter to My Organ Donor's Family
By Melody Masha Pierson
Please believe me when I tell you that, to me, your daughter is an angel. She is on my shoulders; she is like a butterfly in my garden. She is the most beautiful person I have never known, and I carry her within me. Every day... |
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Putting an End to PAS (Parental Alienation Syndrome)
By Susie Benzaquen
Divorce often brings out the worst in two people that at one time may have felt deep feelings of love for one another. It's only human nature to want to find some outlet for those feelings of loss, disappointment, regret, or even failure that generally accompany divorce... |
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New Recreation Center at Israeli Orphanage Began With Ambassadorial Visit
By Tamar Runyan
The new recreation room at the Ohr Simcha educational complex in Kfar Chabad is named after British Ambassador Tom Phillips and his wife, Anne. |
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