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Are You Inside Your Name?
By Yanki Tauber
You may be the only guy wearing a red tie in seat 3B, but does that mean that if you'd put on the yellow tie this morning you wouldn't be you?
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » Are You Inside Your Name?
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Transforming Women's Torah Learning
A New Wave in Educating Jewish Women
By Bryna Jocheved Levy
Torah learning for Jewish women has been revolutionized. No longer must women strive to learn as men, but rather women are now revealing and celebrating their own unique ability to learn as women.
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Celebrating Jewish Womanhood » Transforming Women's Torah Learning
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Da'at
The Knowing I
By Tzvi Freeman
Why do we become a bar mitzvah at adolescence? Because something dramatic happens to our minds at this time: A sort of awakening, a consciousness, a realization that "I exist"
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Tzvi Freeman » Da'at
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On Being a Mentch
By Mendy Herson
Consciously or sub-consciously, we all identify as "human." Does that inspire us to strive higher, to be a mentsch? Or does it allow us to relax our standards, recognizing that we're "only human"?
Society & Living » Daily Life » On Being a Mentch
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Cult or Religion?
By Aron Moss
I have nothing against religion, but could it be that religious Judaism is a cult? I bumped into an old classmate who has become totally religious. After speaking to her, I felt that she is brainwashed
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Ethics & Religion » Cult or Religion?
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Use
By Pesach and Chana Burston
Once there was an adolescent camel that would pose questions to its mother incessantly, as all children naturally do. “Mother, why do we have a hump perched on our backs?” Mother replied, “My child, these humps prevent hunger and thirst as we trek ...
Library » Stories » Bookshelf » Chicken Soup for the Neshamah » Use
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Hypocrisy
Amongst the Chassidim of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (the "Tzemach Tzedek," 1789-1866) was a businessman whose dealings took him to the business centers of the large cities of Russia as well as to several foreign capitals. As time went by, he ...
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Adulthood
Three things you must know to be an adult: Don't fool yourself. Don't fool others. Don't let others fool you. -- and do it all without trying to impress anybody. (The 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shalom DovBer, told this to his son before his bar ...
Spirituality » Meditations » Be Within Stay Above » Mastering Your World » Adulthood
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Identity
You need to decide what you are. If you believe yourself to be angel, be prepared for some disappointment. If you think of yourself as a beast, you may well become depressed. Best to know you are human. Stay away from situations you can't handle, and ...
Spirituality » Meditations » Collection I » Identity
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Where Are You?
Told by the Lubavitcher Rebbe
"Do you believe that the Torah is eternal?" asked the Rebbe. "Do you believe that its every word applies to every individual, under all conditions, at all times?"
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