Matot-Massei 5769 - July 17, 2009
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G‑d in High School
By Moshe Goldman
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 |
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Are We Supposed to be Afraid of G‑d?
By Aron Moss
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... |
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Questions From a Feminist
"Isms" are cute paradigms which tell us a lot about academia--and almost nothing about Jews and Jewish thought
By Tzvi Freeman
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 |
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The Pinch
Hydraulic power plants, rockets and garden hoses all use it to squeeze a greater degree of power from the element they constrain
By Yanki Tauber
Hydraulic power plants, rockets and garden hoses all use it to squeeze a greater degree of power from the element they constrain |
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Confessions of a Lazy Millionaire
By N. Ozick
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. |
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No Criticism Please!
By Sara Chana Radcliffe
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... |
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The Story of Irena Sendler
Rescuer of the Children of Warsaw
By Chana Kroll
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... |
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The "O" Word
The Dangers of Orthodoxy
by Shalvi Weissman
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... |
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My Birth Plan
Letting Go of the Dream
by Mandy Gaziel
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? |
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No Other Mother
When I close the door of my home I am the only mother in the world, the only mother my children will ever know
By Tzippora Price
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... |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Matot-Massei - Numbers 30:2--36:13
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 |
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A Timely Yahrtzeit
By Naftali Silberberg
What is so remarkable about the timing of Aaron's yahrtzeit that it merits explicit mention in the Torah? |
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The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life
By Elisha Greenbaum
A smoker once told me that quitting was dead easy; he personally had stopped dozens of times... |
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First Things First
By Shlomo Yaffe
The tribes had put sheep first, then children. But can it then be that that they actually loved their sheep more than their children? |
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The Eastern Colonists
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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? |
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