ב"ה
Korach 5766 - June 30, 2006
Parshah
Korach in a Nutshell
Korach challenges Moses’ and Aaron’s leadership, inciting mutiny and offering forbidden incense. The subsequent blossoming of Aaron’s staff proves that his position as high priest is divinely ordained.
Korach challenges Moses’ and Aaron’s leadership, inciting mutiny and offering forbidden incense. The subsequent blossoming of Aaron’s staff proves that his position as high priest is divinely ordained.
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A Jewish Background
Is there such a thing as a Jew "with no Jewish background"?... Plus: a trip to Soviet Russia 40 years ago and a Friday afternoon mission to Ocean Ave., Brooklyn
Is there such a thing as a Jew "with no Jewish background"?... Plus: a trip to Soviet Russia 40 years ago and a Friday afternoon mission to Ocean Ave., Brooklyn
The Great Debate
Jono writes, directs, stage manages, and performs two roles in a one-act play depicting a debate between Moses and Korach, a man who challenged the Leadership of Moses and Aaron
Jono writes, directs, stage manages, and performs two roles in a one-act play depicting a debate between Moses and Korach, a man who challenged the Leadership of Moses and Aaron
Hanging by a Wick
I attended Catholic school, and I was instructed by my parents not to believe anything they taught me but to follow along. To say the least, I was a spiritually confused child...
I attended Catholic school, and I was instructed by my parents not to believe anything they taught me but to follow along. To say the least, I was a spiritually confused child...
A Mystical Covenant
How could you mend a fracture so deep, such a hole in the heart of humanity? ... Would it be possible to search out every Jew in love as Jews had once been searched out and hunted down in hate?
How could you mend a fracture so deep, such a hole in the heart of humanity? ... Would it be possible to search out every Jew in love as Jews had once been searched out and hunted down in hate?
From the time that I was a child attending cheder,
and even before, there began to take form in my mind a picture of the future
redemption--the redemption of Israel from its last exile, a redemption such as
would explicate the suffering, the decrees and the massacres of galut.
— From a letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Print Magazine
All of Jewish philosophy is but an attempt to fit inside the human mind that which is contained within the heart of a simple Jew.
It will never fit.
But you must learn, contemplate, and ponder with your mind, nevertheless. Perhaps, once aware of its inadequacy, your mind will awaken the heart from its slumber.
Hayo...
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