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Ki-Teitzei 5763 - September 5, 2003

Going and Coming

We are all warriors, for we each harbor the conviction that we were born to make a difference
Parshah
Ki Teitzei in a Nutshell
The law of the beautiful captive and the rebellious son, the hungry employee and a dead brother's wife, how to get married and when to get divorced -- and 68 other mitzvot
A Father's Blessing

"Daddy," I cried, gulping down the large lump that was forming in my throat. "We don't want your blessing tomorrow. We want it after the surgery, for many years to come!"
The Kabbalah of Communication

Try an experiment. Open a book and read a few pages. Now do the exercise with another book, but this time, do so with the intention of sharing the information with a specific person
Story
The Needy and the Needed

The Rebbe sat in a state of d'veikut for a long while. Then lifted his head and said with great feeling: "You speak of all that you need. But you say nothing of what you are are needed for"
Better a sinful person who knows that he has sinned, than a righteous person who knows that he is righteous
— The "Seer of Lublin", Chassidic master Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz
Print Magazine

Nothing is greater than peace. Even when you are 100% right, and you know your spouse is 100% wrong, you can still give in for the sake of peace.

Better a difficult peace than an easy quarrel.

See Igrot Kodesh volume 9, page 100.

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