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Lag BaOmer 5769 - May 12, 2009

 Seasons
A Carob Tree and a Spring

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
Attaining Immortality

Is death a reason to mourn, or to celebrate the life of the deceased? That depends on the nature of the person's life...
Living in the Future

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?
Lag BaOmer Parades

What were they thinking when they invented Lag BaOmer parades?
 Spirituality
Is G-d in the Consequences?

A friend says she doesn't believe G‑d "causes" the consequence, because, she says, "we have free will."
Where Are All the "Worlds"?

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?
 Living
Cancer Turned My Life Upside Down

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...
Wisdom at 105

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...
Nothing in Common

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
 Women
From Harvard to Homemaking

Everyone readily admits that parenting is physically and emotionally demanding. But, intellectually demanding? That's overlooked...
The Other Side of Unforgivable

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?
 Parshah
Behar-Bechukotai - Leviticus 25-27
The Sabbatical and Jubilee years, doing business with G-d, reward and rebuke, and a system for evaluating value
The King, the Peasant and the Nightingale

The king commanded his coachman to halt at the peasant's door. "How are you enjoying my gift?" he inquired of his beloved subject
How to Enjoy Judaism

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...
The Engraved Letters

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?
Capitalist or Communist?

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.
The Last Line

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...
The Fiftieth Year

Mundanity, holiness, and beyond -- a study of the spiritual significance of the Shemittah and Jubilee cycles
It is written, "For you (the people of Israel) shall be a desirable land, says G-d" (Malachi 3:12). Just as the greatest explorers will never uncover the limits of the great and valuable resources which the Almighty has placed within the earth, neither will anyone ever discover the limits of the great treasures which lie buried within a Jew -- G-d's "desirable land."
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

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16 Iyar | May 10
Omer: Day 31
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17 Iyar | May 11
Omer: Day 32
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Tuesday
18 Iyar | May 12
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Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
Plague among R. Akiva's Disciples Ends (circa 120 CE)
Passing of R. Shimon bar Yochai (2nd century CE)
Passing of Rama (1573?)
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IDF Created (1948)
Hurva Synagogue Destroyed (1948)
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Wednesday
19 Iyar | May 13
Omer: Day 34
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
Passing of Maharam (1293)
Goebbels Committed Suicide (1945)
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Count "Thirty-Five Days to the Omer" Tonight
Thursday
20 Iyar | May 14
Omer: Day 35
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
Journey From Sinai (1312 BCE)
Troyes Jews Burned at Stake (1288)
Venice Jews Forbidden to Practice Law (1637)
Mt. Scopus Hospital (1939)
Pregnant Women Sentenced to Death (1942)
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Count "Thirty-Six Days to the Omer" Tonight
Friday
21 Iyar | May 15
Omer: Day 36
Today in Jewish HistoryToday in Jewish History:
Frank Hanged in Prague (1946)
Kfar Chabad Established (1949)
Laws and CustomsLaws and Customs:
Count "Thirty-Seven Days to the Omer" Tonight
Light Shabbat Candles before sunset.
Shabbat
22 Iyar | May 16
Omer: Day 37
Torah Reading: Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34)
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Shabbat Commanded (1313 BCE)
Jewish Books Confiscated (1731)
Hungarian Jews Deported (1944)
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