Bamidbar 5769 - May 22, 5768 |
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Einstein's Pants
By Yisroel Cotlar
Imagine Albert Einstein walking down the street and dropping a pen. As he bends down to pick it up, the unfortunate occurs. His pants split. He heads back home, and mends the pants... |
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A New Epoch in Torah Learning
By Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz)
When the Rebbe initiated his campaign, it may have seemed like just one more way to promote the learning of Torah. But it is much more than that. It's a new epoch of Torah learning. |
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Maimonides: His Life and Works
By Dovid Zaklikowski
Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Talmudist, Halachist, physician, philosopher and communal leader, known in the Jewish world by the acronym "Rambam" and to the world at large as "Maimonides." |
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Maimonides Life and Beyond in Pictures
By Dovid Zaklikowski
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In a Ward on a Hill
By Mordechai Lightstone
On an overcast morning one Fourth of July, sullen clouds hinting to the imminent fall of rain, I came to a Forensic Psychiatric Ward in Northern Connecticut. |
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Warning the Western World
By Deena Yellin
When Gabriel entered the emergency room, she was shocked by what she saw around her: hundred of wounded people, Muslims, Palestinians and Christians being treated by Israeli doctors. "They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in need and they helped." |
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Dealing with Anger and Children
By Dr. Miriam Adahan
Dealing with angry kids is exhausting, embarrassing and nerve wracking. You need an entire set of strategies to deal with their rage without losing your marbles or your character in the process. |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Numbers in the Book of Numbers: 4 camps, 12 tribes, 273 surplus first-born, 22,300 Levites, 603,550 Israelites -- each of whom count. Plus how to take apart G-d's home, transport it across the desert, and put it back together again |
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Cedars vs. Palm Trees
By Rabbi Ben A.
A righteous individual may be compared to one of two kinds of trees: The "date palm" gives fruit but doesn't grow so tall. The "cedar" grows tall but does not bear fruit... |
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Wisdom from the Wilderness
By Yossy Goldman
It is not enough for G-d to give us the Torah. We have to receive it |
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The Right Time for a Census
By Zalman Posner
Two censuses, taken at two times which could not be more dissimilar. But a singular message -- and a message with a singular theme -- emerges... |
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Unity and Difference
By Tali Loewenthal
In this process of counting there is an interesting feature: G-d tells Moses to count the people as individuals and also by their families, within their tribes... |
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The Day that Nothing Happened
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
After six weeks of anticipation and preparation for the great day, would everything come to a halt merely because the Jewish people were weary from the journey? |
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