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Shavuot 5769 - May 28, 2009

Holidays
The Angels and Us

At that moment the angels understood what it means to be human and to have to deal with the challenges that we deal with. It took them a hundred and something years to recover from it...
The Never Ending Voice

Revolutions may come and go but revelation is eternal
How Do We Know the Torah Is Real?

I could believe the world was real. But was it possible to know it? What had to be added to that belief in order to convert it into knowledge?
Saved by the Coffee Cups
Suddenly he heard his name called. “Ya, Matzliach! You’re just the man I want! His Majesty sent me out to buy a set of antique coffee cups. I have no idea where to get them . . .”
Living
An Ode to My Little Brother

Little brothers are so handy. When they are very small they can give you a massage by walking on your back. Then they get a little bigger, and soon, they are arm-rest size.
I am a Metaphor

All the experiences I've gone through, from every time I've exercised, to the wedding, to my class in the Old City have all been metaphors. They are channels to Truth.
A Bridge to Somewhere
An American Chabad rabbi working in Uruguay to "activate souls," and a well established doctor, self proclaimed atheist from the interior of Argentina, explore their Jewishnesss, establishing a line of communication that not only transcends their differences but feeds off them…
"For they are My servants, whom I took out of the land of Egypt; they cannot be sold into slavery" (Leviticus 25:42). At the time of the Exodus, G-d made freedom the inherent and eternal state of the Jew; From that point on, no power or force on earth can subvert our intrinsic freedom...
— Maharal (Rabbi Judah Lowe of Prague)
Print Magazine

How can you attain love of an infinite G-d? Through love of your fellow human beings.

As Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa would say, “If people like you, G-d likes you too.”

How did he know?

Because he knew that if people truly like you, it must be that you genuinely like them.

And when you hold genuine love in your heart for ...