ב"ה
Yitro
By the Numbers
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Learn about the 15th of Shevat, the "new year" for trees, with these ten fascinating facts.
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Essay
The Existential Exodus
You can hide it enough so it doesn't embarrass you in public. You can pretty it up so that others are not as annoyed with it. You can try to ignore its whelps and howls when it gets out of hand. But can you free yourself of your ego?
You can hide it enough so it doesn't embarrass you in public. You can pretty it up so that others are not as annoyed with it. You can try to ignore its whelps and howls when it gets out of hand. But can you free yourself of your ego?
Your Questions
Halachic Guidance for Gardening (in the Diaspora)
Through following these halachic guidelines, we make our gardens not only physically beautiful but spiritually delightful as well.
Through following these halachic guidelines, we make our gardens not only physically beautiful but spiritually delightful as well.
Biography
Rebbe Shmuel Shmelke of Nikolsburg (1726-1778)
Rebbe Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz was a renowned scholar and leader of the second generation of the Chassidic movement.
Rebbe Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz was a renowned scholar and leader of the second generation of the Chassidic movement.
Parshah
Don't Be a Building in the Desert
Moses wasn’t telling Yitro anything he didn’t know. Rather, he was trying to see if his father-in-law really possessed the mettle to join G‑d’s people.
Moses wasn’t telling Yitro anything he didn’t know. Rather, he was trying to see if his father-in-law really possessed the mettle to join G‑d’s people.
From Generation to Generation
What You Can Do for Your Elderly Parents
By including the nursing assistants in the culture of the residents, I showed that their work was important, appreciated and valued.
By including the nursing assistants in the culture of the residents, I showed that their work was important, appreciated and valued.
The Inheritance That Broke Up a Family
There had never been a particularly warm relationship between the siblings, and in the years that followed, their connections became weaker.
There had never been a particularly warm relationship between the siblings, and in the years that followed, their connections became weaker.
Mount Sinai Cupcakes for Parshat Yitro
Enjoy creating and serving these delicious cupcakes for this week's Torah portion.
Enjoy creating and serving these delicious cupcakes for this week's Torah portion.
In that generation the women repaired what the men broke down. The men gave their gold for the making of the Calf; the women refused. The men had been unwilling to enter the Land [in wake of the Spies' report]; the women [i.e., the daughters of Tzelafchad] petitioned to receive an inheritance in the Land
— Midrash Rabbah (on Numbers 27:1)
Print Magazine
Nothing is greater than peace. Even when you are 100% right, and you know your spouse is 100% wrong, you can still give in for the sake of peace.
Better a difficult peace than an easy quarrel.
See Igrot Kodesh volume 9, page 100.
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