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Vayeira 5762 - November 2, 2001
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G-d visits the sick, disguised angels eat bread and meat, Sodom is overturned, Lot gets drunk, Sarah laughs and gives birth, a truce is sworn over seven sheep and a well. Plus: the "Binding of Isaac" according to the Chasssidic masters.
G-d visits the sick, disguised angels eat bread and meat, Sodom is overturned, Lot gets drunk, Sarah laughs and gives birth, a truce is sworn over seven sheep and a well. Plus: the "Binding of Isaac" according to the Chasssidic masters.
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Cabin Pressure
Have you ever noticed how when they go through the safety procedures on an aircraft, they tell you to attend to your own mask before attending to your child's?
Have you ever noticed how when they go through the safety procedures on an aircraft, they tell you to attend to your own mask before attending to your child's?
The Morality of Weakness: Defining Sexual Harassment
How does one define "sexual harassment"? Almost as intimidating as the harassment itself is the fact that we didn't seem to know what it is.
How does one define "sexual harassment"? Almost as intimidating as the harassment itself is the fact that we didn't seem to know what it is.
If a poor man happened to come to the wicked city of Sodom, every resident gave him a coin, upon which he inscribed his name; but no bread was given him. When he died, each came and took back his coin.
— Talmud, Sanhedrin 109a
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To one whose self is his body, death of the body is death of the self. But for one whose self is his love, awe and faith, there is no death, only a passing. From a state of confinement in the body, he makes the passage to liberation. He continues to work within this world, and even more so than before.
The Talmud says th...
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