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Naso

 Spirituality
Alef Bet

And this little boy? When he awakens, what will he see? Undoubtedly he will marvel at neat rows of colored squiggles and wonder what they are doing in his crib. He is far too young to realize what he is looking at...
Should I Pray for the Death of Terrorists?

The murder of others, even if they are the oppressors, seemingly amounts to a glorification of war... Prayer, I am told, is an act of enlightenment. Am I to pray for the brutal demise of the enemy?
What's In It for G-d?

I would like to think that if I mess up, G‑d eagerly awaits my return, and when I perform a mitzvah, G‑d is pleased. But this contradicts everything I was taught about G‑d...
The Vessel

"Go to the craftsman who made me," said the man, "and say to him: How ugly is the vessel which you have made!"
 Living
Does G-d Have ADD?

With their extremely detailed brains, people with ADD are often plagued by an unattainable pursuit of perfection, which in turn, prevents them from completing almost-finished tasks, in a vicious cycle of running off to the next thing and then the next…
To Love without Limits

“We usually are given a matter of days to find a Jewish home, or the child will go to a church or some other non-Jewish situation,” says Steve Krausz of Denver, who together with his wife founded The Jewish Children’s Adoption Network (JCAN).
Thoughts of an Almost-Homeless Person

What with this and that, my roommate and I both decided it was time to move on. We have till the end of the month. Where will we go?
Ramblings of a New Dad

Take a moment to think about how many things had to go right for nothing to be wrong with our baby!
Raising a Difficult Child

Some kids are easier to raise. Others, however, can be moody, stubborn, wild, anxious, intense or otherwise challenging. Parents have to deal with their disappointment when raising this kind of child...
 Parshah
Naso - Numbers 4:21-7:89
8,580 holy movers, the wayward wife, the life of the Nazir (no grape products, long hair, no contact with the dead), blessing priests and donor princes... and what it all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today
The Levites

Heaven or earth? The kollel or the kibbutz? We Jews have been debating the issue for as long as we have been a people
Individual and Community

Each day the Prince of one of the Tribes brought a magnificent gift to G‑d. But for each Prince although the gift was exactly the same, the symbolic meaning was different...
The Hiding Wife

The Prophets speak of the bond between G-d and Israel as a marriage, and of Israel's sins as a wife's betrayal of her husband. Following this model, the sages of the Talmud see the Sotah -- the "wayward wife" discussed in our Parshah -- as the prototype of all transgression of the Divine will....
Tasting Life's Bitter Waters

You are married, or intensely committed, to a vision, a goal, a dream. Then along comes life...
 Daily Quotes
meeting place
Not only the tribe of Levi…
A person does not sin…
Great is peace!
Cherish criticism
May G-d bless…
Said Rabbi Eliezer: "Repent one day before your death." His disciples asked him, "Does a person then know which day he will die?" Said he to them, "How much more so should he repent today..."
— Talmud, Shabbat 153a

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