Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
If you had made yourself, you would be toast.
But you didn’t.
The One who made you—He knew every challenge you would meet, your faults and weaknesses. He was the one who put them there.
And for each brick wall you would hit, He provided you a ladder. For every chasm of your soul, a bridge to walk over. For each...
“Just as your union began with feasting, let your parting of ways be similarly celebrated.”
The night their father left town, his sons reminisced about their shared childhood, and the messages stressed in their home...
In order to get some intimation of the Infinite One Who is beyond all conception, the mind naturally fills in what is inconceivable with ideas that are logical and comprehensible. A still deeper...
It was at that moment—when she described something as “silly” instead of using a term that was a little saltier—that it struck me. My new friend never swore.
I know it gives them strength. I certainly know it gives me strength. But what exactly is the strength that we tap into by saying, “G‑d willing, you can; I can?”
Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man
and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Do not give anyone special recognition when rendering judgment; hear the small as well as the great; fear
no man; for the judgment is G-d's. And the thing that is too hard for you,
bring it to me, and I will hear it
– Moses' instruction to the magistrates, Deuteronomy 1:16-17
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