Purim 5769 - March 10, 2009 |
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“What’s a Jew, Mama?”
By Mirish Kiszner
Every day brought new torment. Katya sat at her desk in the classroom alone, isolated and shunned. She never cried, though. She didn't cry when they chased her or threw stones at her or struck her with their backpacks. |
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No Costume Required
By N. Ozick
I never wanted to be a salmon or an Alaskan oddball, but I did want some authentic experiences in the spirituality department. |
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Two Stages in Marriage
By Yehudis Karbal
In the pre-marital phase we are focused on "what am I getting." In the post-marital state our focus shifts from to "what am I giving." |
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Getting Kids to Help More
By Bracha Mirsky
The two most relevant concepts in getting kids to help out are establishing family routines and consequences. |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
It's all there in this week's Torah reading: the 120-day version of the human story, the breaking of the Tablets, Moses' heaven-shaking disputations with G-d, the disparity and parity of sin and sanctity... |
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The Best Kept Secret in the World
By Yanki Tauber
Strip life of its false starts, of its missed opportunities, naive presumptions, fumbling first attempts and learned-it-the hard-way experiences, and what's left? Nothing worth writing home about, let alone going through all that trouble to live a life... |
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Two Equal Tablets
By Zalman Posner
What is the primary concern of the religious person -- man-to-man relations or a focus on the Divine? |
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True Mercy
By Shlomo Yaffe
Why is "an abundance of truth" considered one of the attributes of mercy? Truth is a severe and honest judge, unwilling to overlook misdeeds and transgressions... |
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Priceless National Treasures
By Naftali Silberberg
Is there ever a good reason to destroy a national treasure? A trip to the National Archives got me thinking about this subject... |
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The Calf's Mother
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
King Solomon was baffled; Moses turned pale. Indeed, only the most incomprehensible of divine decrees -- the law of the Red Heifer -- can act as an antidote for the most incomprehensible of human experiences --the phenomenon of death |
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In Disguise
By Sherri Mandell
Before this, I was the kind of person who never lied. I felt that honesty was truth and that I needed to engage in truth, at all costs.I have greater insight now about the issue of concealment... |
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Passover
Passover celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. |
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Miracles Masked
By Arnie Gotfryd
Strange is it not? A book of the Bible and not even one explicit reference to G‑d? Why is that? Perhaps we can answer this question with another question.... |
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What is the Secret of our People's Survival?
By Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, The Lubavitcher Rebbe
No manner of assimilationism provides an escape from the Hamans and Hitlers; nor can any Jew sever his ties with his people by attempting such an escape. |
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Esther's Story
By Yanki Tauber
Originally, there were two different conceptions of how the miracle of Purim should be commemorated, propagated by the two heroes and founders of Purim, Mordechai and Esther |
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