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Who Created G‑d?

The Creator of all boundaries is unbounded by any definition. Otherwise, He too would require a creator.
Tikkun Olam and the Secret of Tzimtzum

Before, it was impossible to imagine a world. Now it is impossible to imagine anything but world.
Jewish News
The Trendy Boutique That Employs People With Special Needs

ZABS Place in North Carolina provides on-site job training and business skills.
A Cry Up to Heaven Is Answered in Rural Denmark

‘This was G-d’s way of reaching out to me, of telling me He is here with me in this struggle.’
Women
Mommy’s in Heaven, and Daddy Doesn’t Know How to Pick Our School Clothes

Two sisters who lost their mother had found support from a woman struck with the same disease.
My Best Basketball Players

Is he feeling left out? Is he feeling sad? Frustrated?
Video
How and When to Judge Another

There is always some explanation, some justification, some perspective for another’s behavior. If you cannot see it, you are not fit to be a judge.
Parshah
Shoftim Haftarah Companion

The time would yet come for the people to rouse themselves from the troughs of suffering.
Do I Need to Be Perfect in Order to Repent?

Simply put—you want to fix what you broke? The first step is to get “tamim.” But what does “tamim” mean?
Story
The Wise Soldier With a Wooden Sword

To the czar’s horror, the soldier tugged his curved sword out from its sheath and presented it to the innkeeper . . .
Lifestyle
Strawberry-Watermelon Slushy

Pray for the well-being of the government; for were it not for the fear of its authority, a man would swallow his neighbor alive
— Ethics of the Fathers, Ch. 3
Print Magazine

All of Torah is wrapped up in these leather straps and boxes with their finely written parchment scrolls.

Because this is the essence of every mitzvah:

To bind your heart, your mind and your action together into a single wholeness, wrapped up inextricably with the One who spoke and the world came into being.

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