ב"ה
Yitro 5766 - February 17, 2006
Jewdaism and Battered Skulls
There was a time when G-d was under attack. There was a time when Torah and mitzvahs were under attack. Now, it's the Jewish people who are on the line...
There was a time when G-d was under attack. There was a time when Torah and mitzvahs were under attack. Now, it's the Jewish people who are on the line...
Parshah
Yitro in a Nutshell
The Israelites camp opposite Mount Sinai, and declare their willingness to perform G-d’s will. G-d proclaims the Ten Commandments, but His voice is too intense for the Israelites, and they beg Moses to be their intermediary.
The Israelites camp opposite Mount Sinai, and declare their willingness to perform G-d’s will. G-d proclaims the Ten Commandments, but His voice is too intense for the Israelites, and they beg Moses to be their intermediary.
Story
The Baal Shem Tov in Heaven
It was the first book, and at that time the only one, that contained the teachings of the holy Baal Shem Tov, and now the opponents of Chassidism were plotting to destroy it . . .
It was the first book, and at that time the only one, that contained the teachings of the holy Baal Shem Tov, and now the opponents of Chassidism were plotting to destroy it . . .
Celebrating Pleasure
The Kabbalists teach that with the simple act of eating fruit on Tu B'Shvat we "rectify" the sin of Adam and Eve. To understand the dynamics of this cosmic repair, we most first explore the mystic significance of pleasure...
The Kabbalists teach that with the simple act of eating fruit on Tu B'Shvat we "rectify" the sin of Adam and Eve. To understand the dynamics of this cosmic repair, we most first explore the mystic significance of pleasure...
Twins: a Saga
For what is man/ But a frame/ Of living wood/ With a bark of flesh/ Whose spent years/ Are carefully recorded/ In the rings of his soul/ To be counted and measured/ When his tree is felled--?
For what is man/ But a frame/ Of living wood/ With a bark of flesh/ Whose spent years/ Are carefully recorded/ In the rings of his soul/ To be counted and measured/ When his tree is felled--?
Current
Danes, Muslims, and... the Jews?
When something consistently reoccurs in our world--a particular weather pattern, a bottle-nosed dolphin migrating habit, a quirk of human behavior--we call it "nature." Apparently, the Jews-in-the-news phenomenon is a force of nature...
When something consistently reoccurs in our world--a particular weather pattern, a bottle-nosed dolphin migrating habit, a quirk of human behavior--we call it "nature." Apparently, the Jews-in-the-news phenomenon is a force of nature...
Man and Tree: a Tu B'Shevat Anthology
The Human Tree... The Seven Kinds... Branches... The Leaf... A Tree's New Year Resolutions... Fruit for thought for Tu B'Shevat (the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat), the "New Year for Trees"
The Human Tree... The Seven Kinds... Branches... The Leaf... A Tree's New Year Resolutions... Fruit for thought for Tu B'Shevat (the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat), the "New Year for Trees"
If only we could kiss a Torah-scroll with the same love that my master (Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov) kissed the children when he took them to school as a teacher's assistant
— Rabbi DovBer of Mezeritch
Print Magazine
In the beginning, a world of twos was created.
Heaven and Earth. Body and soul. Good and evil. Life and death. Light and darkness.
Those who chose Heaven abandoned the earth. Those who chose the body abandoned the soul. Those who chose evil destroyed life.
Those who chose good believed it would only come with death....
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