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Work
By Yanki Tauber
Why must everything be so difficult? Couldn't G-d have designed our lives so that we wouldn't need to encounter disappointments, challenges and toil every step of the way?
Library » Stories » Fables & Parables » Work
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The Plunge
By Tzippora Price
For the first time in my life, there is no visible record of my accomplishments. In fact, when done well, it is impossible to perceive parenting being done at all...
Women » Motherhood & Childrearing » Joys and Challenges » The Plunge
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Is This Your Ten Million Dollars?
By Aron Moss
Rabbi Declines Ten Million Dollar Lottery Prize: sez it's 'against his principles'
Society & Living » Daily Life » Is This Your Ten Million Dollars?
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Younger Than My Employees
I am significantly younger than a lot of my co-workers and those I am directing. In most cases I am young enough to be their daughter! I am not uncomfortable about it, but it clearly seems that they are...
Women » Dear Rachel » Career » Younger Than My Employees
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Did G-d Work on Shabbat?
By Elisha Greenbaum
I received a call last week from a set of new parents trying to schedule their son's brit milah (circumcision). The boy had been born late in the afternoon, slightly before nightfall, exactly a week before the festival of Rosh Hashanah. Ideally a brit is ...
Parshah » Bereishit - Genesis » Bereishit » Parshah Columnists » Parshah Musings » Did G-d Work on Shabbat?
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The Eishet Chayil School of Business
By Sarah Zeldman
The Eishet Chayil is the Torah’s description of the ideal Jewish woman. Surprise! She is not only a supportive wife, and a loving mother, but she is also a businesswoman...
Women » Practical Tips » Creative Projects & More » The Eishet Chayil School of Business
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The 40th Labor
By Yanki Tauber
What is "work"? If life is synonymous with creativity, is Shabbat a time outside life? What is the deeper significance of the curious Talmudic phrase, "forty labors minus one"?
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » The 40th Labor
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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?
Spirituality » Essays » The Pilfering of Infinity
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Learning to Laugh
By Yanki Tauber
We take on the world, vowing to turn it upside down. And then we relax, and learn to savor life's little pleasures. And then, one day we realize what's wrong: we're not having fun anymore!
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » Learning to Laugh
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Growing Old
The Jewish view on aging and retirement
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The Rebbe's revolutionary view on aging and "retirement," and -- by extension -- on life, work and productivity.
Society & Living » Issues » Growing Old
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