Vaeira 5769 - January 23, 2009 |
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The Rebbe’s Guidance to Presidents of the United States
Compiled by Dovid Zaklikowski
Successive American administrations recognized the major role of the Rebbe in providing moral and religious direction for Jews and non-Jews worldwide, and sought his sage counsel on issues of global and local import. |
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Airplane in the Hudson
By Nechemia Schusterman
I must imagine, however, that more than anyone else, this was most frightening for the pilot. The knowledge that not only was his own life in his hands, but the lives of over 150 others... |
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A Pillow Full of Feathers
By Shoshannah Brombacher
In a small town somewhere in Eastern Europe lived a nice man with a nasty problem: he talked too much about other people... |
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Procrastination
By Frumstepper
It's my choice to pick a little discomfort now, in order to heal, recover, and live a happy, healthy, sane and useful life. Hands down, the choice seems much easier when put that way. It even feels quite good to make the right choices now. |
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Why We Care About Israel
By Baruch Epstein
Why do rabbis expound on Israel's military strategy? Would we heed a dentist's opinion on an engineering problem? Herein lies the crux of the perplexing nature of the "Mideast conflict"... |
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Acting as an Arab
By Elad Nehorai
...and learning to be Jewish |
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How to Win This War
By Chana Weisberg
Were the houses in Neve Dekalim any less of a home for their families than those in Tel Aviv or Rechovot? Or is a peaceful Shabbat meal in Ashkelon or Beer Sheva any less valuable than one in Sderot? |
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Miracles in Israel
by Sara Debbie Gutfreund
I wonder how far we will allow today’s miracles to take us? Will we watch hundreds of rockets fall without injuring anyone and say that it is just a coincidence? Or will we allow this war change our lives?... |
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Where is G-d?
By Bracha Goetz
Where is G-d? Is He really there? |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils, hail -- all to get the Jews out of Egypt and Egypt out of the Jews... Also: Pharaoh as the ultimate frog, the difference between selfish martyrdom and true self-sacrifice, and Moses gets an answer (of sorts) from G-d on the ancient question of human suffering. |
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Rain, a River, Fire and Ice
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
On the difference between Egypt and the Holy Land, and the inner significance of the Plague of Hail |
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The Greatest Miracle of All
By Naftali Silberberg
Sticks transforming into serpents; water turning into blood; hail pellets with a core of fire... Why doesn't this stuff happen today?! |
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The Prophetic Experience
By Lazer Gurkow
We're both working on the same puzzle. But my daughter's knowledge flows from the picture to the fragment while my knowledge flows from the fragment to the picture.... |
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Pharaoh as a Role Model
By Elisha Greenbaum
You have to admire that guy. One plague, two plagues, they just kept coming... But he stayed the course |
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Writing My Mother's Story
By Juliene Berk
I thought of her manuscript often and with so much pain of loss I could not bear to open the manila envelope and see her writing on the pages. It lay in a drawer gathering importance, and waiting for me... |
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Not Seeing Eye to Eye
by Lori Averick
Living a Jewish life when your husband isn't interested |
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Silent Mourners
By Jill Pincus
Having lost a baby makes me more aware of the miraculous nature of birth. I pray for
my friends, that their pregnancies be healthy and full-term. I pray for
neighbors. And I pray for myself... |
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