Lag BaOmer 5769 - May 12, 2009 |
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A Carob Tree and a Spring
Talmud, Shabbat 33b
Seeing a man ploughing and sowing, they exclaimed: "They forsake eternal life and engage in temporal life!" Whatever they cast their eyes upon was immediately incinerated |
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Attaining Immortality
By Naftali Silberberg
Is death a reason to mourn, or to celebrate the life of the deceased? That depends on the nature of the person's life... |
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Living in the Future
By Yanki Tauber
It's my favorite oxymoron: If one indeed lives in the future, it's not the future anymore, is it? And if one only thinks he's living in the future, than he's not really living there, is he? |
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Lag BaOmer Parades
By Elisha Greenbaum
What were they thinking when they invented Lag BaOmer parades? |
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Is G-d in the Consequences?
By Tzvi Freeman
A friend says she doesn't believe G‑d "causes" the consequence, because, she says, "we have free will." |
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Where Are All the "Worlds"?
By Yisroel Cotlar
The writings of Kabbalah and Chassidim speak of four worlds--Azilut, Beriah, Yetziah and Assiah. Where are these "worlds"? Why haven't any of them been discovered yet? |
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Cancer Turned My Life Upside Down
By Yosef Eliezrie
The doctor’s face was serious when he told me that something was very wrong and that I needed to go home immediately. From that point, things unraveled very quickly... |
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Wisdom at 105
By Mirish Kiszner
It's not every day that one is privileged to sit across from a woman whose life has spanned an entire century. At 105 years old, Mrs. Pollack is astonishingly attentive and aware... |
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Nothing in Common
By Sara Chana Radcliffe
Many people feel frustrated because they have "nothing in common" with their spouses. But lack of commonality is not an aberration in marriage--it is marriage |
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From Harvard to Homemaking
By Bracha Goetz
Everyone readily admits that parenting is physically and emotionally demanding. But, intellectually demanding? That's overlooked... |
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The Other Side of Unforgivable
By Tzippora Price
How can I expect to be forgiven if I have not extended the same grace to others, if I have not demonstrated with my daily behavior that we can treasure our relationships despite their imperfections? |
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Behar-Bechukotai - Leviticus 25-27
The Sabbatical and Jubilee years, doing business with G-d, reward and rebuke, and a system for evaluating value |
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The King, the Peasant and the Nightingale
By Yanki Tauber
The king commanded his coachman to halt at the peasant's door. "How are
you enjoying my gift?" he inquired of his beloved subject |
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How to Enjoy Judaism
By Tali Loewenthal
There is an art in enjoyment. If you want to enjoy exotic food, delicate wine, music, mountains, paintings, poetry - there is a way to go about it... |
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The Engraved Letters
By Yitschak Meir Kagan
One's study of Torah should be as letters that are hewn out of stone, not as letters of ink that are written on paper. What does this mean? |
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Capitalist or Communist?
By Yossy Goldman
What is Judaism's economic system? Is there one? In promoting free enterprise, the Torah is clearly capitalistic. But it is a conditional capitalism, and certainly a compassionate capitalism. |
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The Last Line
By Shimon Posner
A courtroom. A judge reads off the charges. The defendant took his victim, drugged him, called in several of his assistants and methodically, with forethought cut the man's stomach open, removed organs, put in foreign substances... |
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The Fiftieth Year
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Mundanity, holiness, and beyond -- a study of the spiritual significance of the Shemittah and Jubilee cycles |
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