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Why Lift the Bride and Groom on Chairs at Jewish Weddings?
Many of the great sages in the Talmud would dance and do all sorts of tricks to entertain the couple.
Many of the great sages in the Talmud would dance and do all sorts of tricks to entertain the couple.
Why Aren’t the Matriarchs Mentioned in Our Prayers?
Do women not count? Are they supposed to just be quietly left in the background?
Do women not count? Are they supposed to just be quietly left in the background?
Battling Debt for Decades
I have done everything in my power to pay back my debts, but every time I make a little headway, something happens to plunge me into debt again.
I have done everything in my power to pay back my debts, but every time I make a little headway, something happens to plunge me into debt again.
And it will come to pass, when all these things befall you -- the blessing and the curse which I have set before you -- that you will consider in your heart, among all the nations where the L-rd your G-d has banished you. And you will return to the L-rd your God with all your heart and with all your soul... Then the L-rd your G-d will bring back your exiles... Even if your exiles are at the end of the heavens, the L-rd your G-d will gather you from there... and He will bring you to the land which your forefathers possessed, and you will take possession of it; and He will do good to you, and He will make you more numerous than your forefathers...
— Deuteronomy 30:1-5
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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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