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Matot-Massei 5769 - July 17, 2009

 Judaism
G‑d in High School

To place Torah in one world and "secular" learning in another borders on having more than one G‑d. Rather, all knowledge should have the same purpose: to further our awareness of the one Creator of All Things
Are We Supposed to be Afraid of G‑d?

The difference between love and respect is that when I love, I am preoccupied with my feelings toward you; when I respect, I am focusing on your presence rather than mine...
Questions From a Feminist

Isms are the creation of the Hegelian mind which is compelled to pigeonhole all human thought into theses and antitheses and their tidy resolution—a cute paradigm that tells us a lot about academia and almost nothing about Jews and Jewish thought
 Seasons
The Pinch

Hydraulic power plants, rockets and garden hoses all use it to squeeze a greater degree of power from the element they constrain
 Living
Confessions of a Lazy Millionaire

People can organize their budgets any way they want, but I personally ascribe to the accounting theory that a penny saved is a penny earned. Obviously a return counts as profit, but so does a purchase never made.
No Criticism Please!

Criticism hurts. It hurts so much it can destroy any relationship. Yet, despite the cost of criticism, most spouses use this communication tool liberally. They think it's their "right" to honestly show their feelings...
 Women
The Story of Irena Sendler

Almost as soon as the Nazi occupation began, Irena began making forged documents for Jewish friends. She also offered food and shelter to the increasingly persecuted Jewish population. Then, in 1940, she witnessed the imprisonment of nearly 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto...
The "O" Word

Besides the problem with the idea of labels in general, and the inappropriateness of the term "Orthodoxy" to a lifestyle that is itself a growth form, I have a very serious issue with the personal limits the term creates...
My Birth Plan

I listened, said goodbye, and then thought about it. Was I trying to control the situation because of my strong views and adamant stance towards natural childbirth?
No Other Mother

When I close the door of my home, there is no other mother. To my children, I am the only mother in the world, the only mother they will ever know...
 Parshah
The Parshah in a Nutshell
Fathers, daughters and husbands; vengeance and war spoils; east and west, tribalism, havens for inadvertent murderers, and the forty-two journeys in the journey of life -- plus what it all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today
A Timely Yahrtzeit

What is so remarkable about the timing of Aaron's yahrtzeit that it merits explicit mention in the Torah?
The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life

A smoker once told me that quitting was dead easy; he personally had stopped dozens of times...
First Things First

The tribes had put sheep first, then children. But can it then be that that they actually loved their sheep more than their children?
The Eastern Colonists

Why the dramatic shift in Moses' view on the Jewish settlement of the eastern territories? If the Reubenites' and Gadites' petition initially struck him as reminiscent of the sin of the Spies, what convinced him to endorse their plan and even expand on it?
A chassidic melody fortifies hope and trust, brings joy, and places the entire householdhome and family in a state of light.
— Hayom Yom, Tamuz 22

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