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The Extreme Jew
By Yanki Tauber Push yourself to your limits and beyond, and if you do it with all the integrity and devotion and goodness of your Jewish soul and your Jewish body, there you will find G-d
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Sustained Paradox
By Tzvi Freeman It is irrational to believe that an elephant can fit itself through the eye of a needle. But what about the One who brought elephant, needle, size, space and logic itself into existence?
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The Four Minute Barrier
By Laibl Wolf Whenever one person attains a "success" -- a barrier surmounted, a limit exceeded -- a subliminal message is sent through the ether of space, creating a subconscious awareness and potential in everyone else
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Doing Nothing
By Yanki Tauber The finish line is in sight; a few more surges of body and mind and you are there. But at this very moment, you stop thinking, stop concentrating, cease all conscious effort, allowing a wave of nothingness to engulf you
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A Blurry Line
By Yanki Tauber The connection between "Honor your father and your mother" and "Do not covet... anything of your fellow's": both straddle the distinction we commonly make between the human and the divine, the physical and the metaphysical, between desire and deed
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The Pilfering of Infinity
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe The phrase "crushing labor" appears repeatedly in the Torah's account of the Egyptian exile and enslavement, in the text of the Haggadah, and in the symbolism of the seder observances. What is crushing labor?
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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 ...
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The Wildest Story Ever Told
By Tzvi Freeman The fact is, if it's philosophy someone else has also thought it; if it's a legend or myth, some other people have a story with a lot of strong parallels. After all, we're all talking about the same world from within the same bodies... Except for one, ...
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The Speed of Light
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe What is time? And if we understood what time is--and what are the "windows" of timelessness within our existence--what practical difference would this make in our lives?
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The Practical Implications of Infinity
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the essence of Jewish mysticism By Jonathan Sacks Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the essence of Jewish mysticism
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