Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
Our sages tell us that peace is the greatest blessing, and that it’s what G‑d wants most for and from us.
A child cannot learn something
without running out and screaming it to others.
And so it should be with all those who have knowledge.
2 Iyar, 5736, sicha 2.
Our entire existence is on loan from G-d. The question is, can we make the divine loan into a divine investment?
The Yovel (Jubilee) year took place every 50 years. The fields were left fallow, slaves were freed, and land was returned.
I first met the family some seven years ago, when I was called to perform a bris on their newborn son.
"Judges and officers you shall place at all your city-gates..." (Deuteronomy 16:18). The human body is a city with seven gates--seven portals to the outside world: the two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and the mouth. Here, too, it is incumbent upon us to place internal "judges" to discriminate and regulate what should be admitted and what should be kept out, and "officers" to enforce the judges' decisions...
– Rabbi Shabtai HaCohen ("Shach"), 1622-1663
Roman Garrison Defeated
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