Emor 5769 - May 8, 2009
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You Are a Fish
By Elad Nehorai
You go about your life. Eating algae. Hanging out in your school. Running away from sharks. The usual.
Your fins start to get tired, though. Your tiny little fish brain feels like it has potential for so much more. |
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Swine Flu: Some Random Thoughts
By Baruch Epstein
Cures are found, but diseases reappear with aggression; we combat them and so it goes. It's tempting to think that if we fix "it" we'll have nothing to worry about ever again. Ha! If only it was so simple. |
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Music at the Rabbi’s Funeral
By Dovid Zaklikowski
At one point during the trip, the horse suddenly changed course and took her own route, going back in the direction from where they had come. |
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Discovering the CURE
Dr. Laz – Jewish Renaissance Man
By Miriam Karp
Dr. Laz's unique healing formula is not available in pharmacies, but it is highly effective in uplifting the spirit of others, including at-risk youth on the periphery. The CURE in four simple words stands for: Communication, Understanding, Respect and Education. |
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Never Too Late
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
When a person's contact with death evokes in him a striving for life he would never have mustered without that experience, then the contact with death is transformed into a more intense involvement with life. |
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How Things Worked Out
The "Second Passover" from the Perspective of a Recovering Alcoholic
By Rabbi Ben A.
Some might think it odd when they hear an alcoholic in recovery say something like: "Being an alcoholic is the greatest thing that ever happened to me." |
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Nowhere Else I'd Rather Be
Choosing Motherhood
by Katherine Agranovich
Now, three boys later, I feel like a pie- everybody wants a piece of me. Well, I am running out of "pieces," as well as my sanity... |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Emor - Leviticus 21-24
How to be a Jewish priest, seven days in the life of a lamb, fifty steps to Sinai, and a full-color tour of the Jewish calendar. Also: the idea, aims and language of “education,” as derived from the Torah and practiced by the chassidic masters. |
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Ambassadors Wanted
By Yossy Goldman
Generally, today, the concept of Kiddush Hashem, sanctifying the name of G-d, is observed not by dying as Jews but by living as Jews |
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The Kohen Gene
By Elisha Greenbaum
Generation after generation of Jewish women were faithful to their husbands and their tradition. What a proud record of fidelity. Geneticists describe these results as "the highest record of paternity-certainty ever recorded"! |
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The Disqualified Kohen
This week I discovered that my teacher was correct. It is indeed true that the disabled have greater merit than the rest of us... |
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The Kohen's Purity
Parshat Emor
By Aryeh Citron
A Kohen may not come in contact with a human corpse. Find out why, how, the exceptions to this rule, and the areas a Kohen should avoid. |
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Grain, Growth and Goodness
By Shlomo Yaffe
We are inclined to believe that all intellectual and artistic endeavors are inherently positive. There are those who would argue that untrammeled intellectual and artistic expression is itself a fundamental good... |
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The Morrow of the Shabbat
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
An historic controversy arose between the Rabbis and sectarians as to the meaning of the command: "And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbat." Although the Rabbis proved their case, why did the Torah use a word so open to misinterpretation? |
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