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Emor 5765 - May 13, 2005

A Path and a Choice

Follow your bliss? If it’s going to make other people like you, that’s the thing to do? Not the sort of advice you’d expect from a Talmudic sage . . .
Parshah
Emor in a Nutshell
Laws specific to the Temple priests, festivals on the Jewish calendar, the menorah and the showbread. Penalties for murder, assault and destruction, followed by an execution.
Living
Believing Is Seeing

No, I didn't get the phrase muddled up; it is the cliché itself that's backwards...
Omer Insights
Why Do We Count the Omer? by Yeruchom Eilfort... Language of the Soul by Jay Litvin... A Spiritual Guide to the Omer Count by Simon Jacobson... Numbers Are Funny Things by Yanki Tauber... Revelation and Struggle by Zvi Yair...
Story
The Czar’s Army’s Iron Pots

The rebbe’s youngest son, Shmuel, who was seven years old at the time, wandered around the room, talking to the men who sat tearfully reading Tehillim as they waited to be received by his father . . .
Sea of Reeds

It is natural when young
To burn like the Mediterranean sun:
To measure one's shadow against
That of a mountain's...
Be careful with the government, for they befriend a person only for their own needs. They appear to be friends when it is beneficial to them, but they do not stand by a person at the time of his distress.
— Ethics of the Fathers 2:3
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...

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