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Vayikra 5764 - March 26, 2004

Faith, Courage and Triumph

I still have a bullet lodged in my brain. My speech is slurred and I have difficulty maintaining balance when I walk. But I am determined that, with the help of G-d, these will not stop me from doing what I know I was born to do
Parshah
Vayikra in a Nutshell
G-d tells Moses about the sacrifices brought on the altar in the Sanctuary, including the meal offering, peace offering, offering of atonement, guilt offering and ascending offering.
Current
The Kabbalah of Defeating Terror

This isn’t a battle between rival ideologies. It’s a struggle between two types of force—one that thrives on order, and another that flourishes on chaos. Can order defeat chaos? Can moderation defeat extremism?
Freedom of Choice

Once there was/ A mighty king/
And in all lands of his kingdom/ No man lifted/
Hand nor foot/ Without his say
Parenting
The Sales Technique

Our job as parents is to sell our children to themselves. The first point of reference for a child's self-esteem -- or lack thereof -- comes from what the child believes the parents think about him or her
Whoever studies the laws of the sin-offering, it is as though he were offering a sin-offering; and whoever studies the laws of the guilt-offering, it is as though he were offering a guilt-offering
— Talmud, Menachot 110a
Print Magazine

On Yom Kippur, we are all in recovery.

Recovery of our true selves.

Look beneath the stormy waves of life, beyond the failures, the guilt, and the pride.

Beneath the surface dwells a calm, pure soul that only desires to fulfill the divine purpose for which it came to this place. To run to do a mitzvah. To absorb t...