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Five Things We Learned About Money
By Yanki Tauber
Money is a fiction. It's not a measure of worth. It's a means not an end. What we give is more ours than what we gain. And "financial security" comes from a much higher place than stock portfolios... |
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Can the Jewish Community Survive the Crisis?
By Tzvi Freeman
Will we wake up one morning to discover we've got back our jobs, but there's no kosher restaurants left where we can celebrate that, our schools have closed down, and our community is left desolate? |
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Finding Security in an Insecure World
By Mendy Herson
By nature, I'm an optimist. Twenty years ago, I knew about the horrors of terrorism. But conventional wisdom said that it couldn't happen in America. So I trusted; and I slept peacefully. |
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Financial Crisis—Spiritual Opportunity?
By Yosef Marcus
We often find ourselves inundated with worldly concerns. Are we then spiritually lost? Can the Divine sensibilities of our souls survive the onslaught of "the real world"? |
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The Traveler
Told by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
"At home?" said Rabbi DovBer. "Oh yes... At home, it is a different matter altogether..." |
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Tu B'Shevat in a Minute
When's the last time you wished a tree Happy New Year? The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat is a great opportunity. It's known as Tu b'Shevat, the New Year for Trees. |
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Making Dough: What We Can Learn from the Economic Situation
By Sara Esther Crispe
Devastating, destructive, overwhelming, historic. This has been the tsunami of the dollar and in its path it has left people uprooted and fearing the unknown... |
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Miriam's Drum
By Shimona Tzukernik
From the fact that the women used musical instruments and danced in accompaniment to their song, we understand that their song sprang from a well of deeper joy and was of a higher caliber than that of the men. And it wasn't by chance that they had their instruments with them... |
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From Wall Street to Main Street
By Aliza Silberstein
Thousands of years of painful history have taught us how to be resilient in the face of crisis, and how to keep going, forever marching forward... |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
In Beshalach the sea splits, manna rains down from heaven, water is extracted from a rock and war is waged on Amalek. But all this happens all the time inside our souls... |
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Two Loaves of Manna
By Lazer Gurkow
The three qualities of the manna, and how they apply to us today |
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Rationed Food for the Soul
By Naftali Silberberg
Is distributing equal food portions G-d’s way of demonstrating the importance of absolute equality amongst all humanity -- even at the expense of common sense? |
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Manna in a Basket
By Tzvi Freeman
In truth, there are two possible channels by which to receive your livelihood, according to the perspective you take in life... |
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The Manna Eaters
By Yanki Tauber
Life is mostly waste. Take food, for example: we spend many hours earning the money, shopping, cooking, eating, and then most of it passes right through our bodies and into the city's sewer system |
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Bread From Heaven
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The manna is to Jewish history what Shabbat is to the workday week: a precedent |
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