Emor 5768 - May 9, 2008 |
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If You Could Be G‑d for One Week, What Would You Do?
By Aron Moss
Who would you help? What punishments would you mete out? How would you handle this awesome responsibility? |
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How Do We Know that G‑d Exists?
By Tzvi Freeman
Since there's no way to know anything with certainty about anything in existence, how can we know that G-d exists? All the evidence is from a "reality" that we have know way of knowing exists at all! |
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Can We Speak Intelligibly About G‑d?
By Yanki Tauber
What are "words" but representations of things and concepts that G-d Himself created? Any words we use -- even words like "infinite" and "ultimate abstraction" --are meaningful only in the context of our logic, and as such, utterly meaningless when applied to G-d, the creator of logic and its terms! |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
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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Appointments In Time
By Yanki Tauber
A parable by the Chassidic sage Rabbi Yechezkel Panet illuminates the geography of the Jewish calendar |
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The Dancing Jew
By Lazer Gurkow
The dance pace at a Chassidic wedding is intense but the selection is pretty much standard: the hora, the hora and yet another version of the hora... |
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In Search of Balance
By Chana Weisberg
Sara wonders about this feminine need for "balance" |
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Say That Again, Please
By Elisha Greenbaum
How many great philosophical systems have disappeared, how many revivalist movements have petered out because insufficient attention was accorded to initiating the young into the beauty and purpose of their elders' existence.... |
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A Shining Example
By Mordechai Wollenberg
The word "to warn" in Hebrew (l'hazhir) comes from the same word as "to shine" |
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Getting Ready for Marriage
By Dr. Miriam Adahan
When you marry, you do not suddenly transform into a patient, joyful, mature or responsible person. You must work on cultivating healthy habits. The following exercises will help you gain maturity... |
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Do You Get Charity?
By Naftali Silberberg
Tests revealed that participants were wrong about the impact of money on happiness. A significant majority thought that personal spending would make them happier than pro-social spending... |
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Help! My Daughter is a Slob!
By Mirish Kiszner
My teenage daughter is a very creative soul who loves creative expression like art and writing. But she is also a real slob. Her room is always a mess no matter how much I ask her to clean up after herself. |
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Returning to What We Ran From
By Staci Newman
I stood in my fluffy terry robe and toss-away slippers, waiting. I looked at myself in the mirror and thought, "What's a nice Reform girl doing in a place like this?" |
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Two Operations
By Ann Goldberg
Was she also here to remove some part of her reproductive organs? I very much hoped not. She was young and single. She hadn't yet found her partner with whom she wanted to share a life with... |
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The Knuckle Cracker
By Mushkie Efune
As he sat absentmindedly cracking his knuckles in between turning the pages of his newspaper, I resigned myself to yet another tedious journey with an aggravating, crackling noise throughout... |
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