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The Jewish Heart
The Secret of Elul
By Sara Esther CrispeOnly when we turn around do we realize the truth, the inner essence, and then we are “face to face” which does not only mean that we can finally look at each other, but more so, that we can look in each other...  3 Comments | |
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Hand in Hand
The Month of Elul
By Sarah SchneiderThe collective vessel of the people of Israel is an organism unto itself that has its own life path and journey from birth to maturity... | |
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What is Spirituality?
The Month of Elul
By Lynne Meredith SchreiberI am all too familiar with the fragility of birch trees. Our counselors taught us that if we peeled back the thin white paper-like bark of the birch, we would end its life. The power was in our hands... | |
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The Gift of Enough
An Elul Lesson
By Robyn CuspinMy life is filled with blessings. Yet I can easily pass an entire day focusing entirely on what I am lacking... 1 Comment | |
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The Month of the Bride
Elul
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher RebbeIn Song of Songs, which explores the relationship between G-d and Israel through the metaphor of the love between a bride and her groom, we find expressions of both male-initiated and female-initiated love 3 Comments | |
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Prayer-Visioning
Preparation for Rosh Hashanah
By Sarah SchneiderThe main work for this time is to formulate our goals, visions, and resolutions for the coming year. We are given hints by G-d regarding what we should pray for, both in a positive and negative sense, by awakening in us specific yearnings and fears. 1 Comment | |
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Emergency Room Lessons
A Yom Kippur Story
By Chana (Jenny) WeisbergThis year, I did not hear a rabbi give his
annual dramatic speech about the fragility of life, and about our total
dependence on G-d's mercy for that life. This year, instead, a microscopic virus
flattened me down to the ground, so that I lived that Yom Kippur sermon. 2 Comments | |
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Slums and Stones
The Meaning of the Sukkah
By Shimona TzukernikThey're given different names depending on the country that hosts them. Bustees in India, pueblos jovenes in Peru. Shanty towns if you want to odorize the concept. "Slums" if you call it like it is... 3 Comments | |
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A Homeless Experience
A Sukkot Lesson
By Chana GrajAs I sit back in my chair behind my large oak desk, waiting for Windows to load, I wonder when I had become so conceited, where had this feeling of superiority come from? What is it that makes me believe even for even a fleeting moment that I am better than those two men? 12 Comments | |
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The Women's Balcony
A Sukkot Experience
By Sarah Shapiro"I want to know why the women aren't allowed to dance with the men." My anger sounded to my own ears flat, bold, the way I wanted it... 4 Comments | |
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Four Species Visualization
A Meditation for the Sukkah
By Shimona TzukernikYou are sitting in a sukkah. Its walls are panels of fragrant wood. On the floor beneath you dance patterns of light and shade, cast by the sechach, the scented roof of leaves above your head. Take a deep breath. Imbibe the peace within your sukkah’s walls... | |
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Lessons From a Temporary Supermom
The Meaning of Sukkot
By Sara Esther CrispeWhy would I, on one of the few times I could travel without any children, put myself in a situation where I am caring for a baby? And why would I be so quick to want to take care of Zoe, a little girl I don’t know and will most likely never see again, when I didn’t seem to have that kind of time, patience, or ability for my own baby? 7 Comments | |
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Jewish Mother's Day
The 11th of Cheshvan
By Yitzchak GinsburghThe 11th of Cheshvan, the day of passing of our matriarch Rachel, is truly the Jewish Mother's Day... 4 Comments | |
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Judaism and Science
The Lessons of Chanukah
By Yitzchak GinsburghAn in-depth evaluation of the events of Chanukah reveals that the war between the Jews and the Greeks was first and foremost a spiritual war — a clash of cultures. At odds were Torah and Greek philosophy — two entirely different conceptual schemes of human life... | |
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Women at War
A Chanukah Lesson
By Chana KrollThe Jewish people - men and women - defied every Greek law with enormous self-sacrifice, yet it was largely by and for the sake of Jewish women that the Maccabees were led to declare war... 2 Comments | |
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Lighting Souls
A Chanukah Insight
By Elana MizrahiI wanted to be tactful, but I also wanted to express my disagreement with her. "I know it's difficult, but the situation is difficult, the age is difficult. Your child isn't difficult." 3 Comments | |
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Graceful Light
Chanukah
By Yitzchak GinsburghBy defining themselves in perfect contradistinction to one another, "light" and "darkness" enter into a symmetrical bond which attests to an underlying unity forming their common source 2 Comments | |
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Pure Oil
Chanukah
By Chaya Shuchat"Ritually pure" -- what, exactly, is that? What properties does a ritually pure sample of olive oil have that the others don't? 6 Comments | |
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