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Tazria 5768 - April 4, 2008
Lifecycle Events
Birthdays in Jewish History
Which famous biblical personalities had noteworthy birthdays? Starting with the first created humans, we chronicle some of the historic Jewish birthday moments.
Which famous biblical personalities had noteworthy birthdays? Starting with the first created humans, we chronicle some of the historic Jewish birthday moments.
Living
Consumer Confidence
Our spending or saving habits, our optimism or pessimism, plays a role in determining whether we descend into a recession or catapult back into economic expansion. How does this rule of finances apply to our own lives as a whole?
Our spending or saving habits, our optimism or pessimism, plays a role in determining whether we descend into a recession or catapult back into economic expansion. How does this rule of finances apply to our own lives as a whole?
Parshah
The Parshah in a Nutshell
Post-childbirth ritual purification, and tzaraat (“leprosy”), a spiritual affliction.
Post-childbirth ritual purification, and tzaraat (“leprosy”), a spiritual affliction.
When Was Your Last Spiritual?
What’s a “spiritual”? It has all the trappings of the routine checkup we call a “physical”—height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress tests on the treadmill and up and down the little staircase . . .
What’s a “spiritual”? It has all the trappings of the routine checkup we call a “physical”—height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress tests on the treadmill and up and down the little staircase . . .
Speak Nicely, but Clearly
"I went to a psychiatrist and he helped me solve my problem," said the compulsive shoplifter. "I don't feel guilty anymore"
"I went to a psychiatrist and he helped me solve my problem," said the compulsive shoplifter. "I don't feel guilty anymore"
Riding with the Moon
Did you ever wonder why our calendar has both weeks and months? Why follow two different cycles that never match up?
Did you ever wonder why our calendar has both weeks and months? Why follow two different cycles that never match up?
The Jewish Woman
Beauty of the Beast
I often find myself at odds with a culture that holds us to a standard of slickness, of airbrushed images and perfect lives. As an artist, I'm on the lookout for the shadows between the light...
I often find myself at odds with a culture that holds us to a standard of slickness, of airbrushed images and perfect lives. As an artist, I'm on the lookout for the shadows between the light...
A Mother's Love
I hear the muffled volley of voices. First, the high pitched, tiny voice of my little girl; her pleading tone rings out clearly. Then the staccato angry bursts of my teenaged daughter's refusal...
I hear the muffled volley of voices. First, the high pitched, tiny voice of my little girl; her pleading tone rings out clearly. Then the staccato angry bursts of my teenaged daughter's refusal...
We Are the Invisible Caregivers
A portly gentleman in his mid-sixties collapses into bed each evening, exhausted and spent. His wife by his side, they are attached wrist to wrist with a cord, in case she tries to walk out of the apartment in the middle of the night . . .
A portly gentleman in his mid-sixties collapses into bed each evening, exhausted and spent. His wife by his side, they are attached wrist to wrist with a cord, in case she tries to walk out of the apartment in the middle of the night . . .
A leader must remember at all times and at every moment that he always stands on the threshold between being one of those who bring merit to the public and, G-d forbid, one of those who cause the public to sin - the threshold between the loftiest of heights and the most abysmal depth
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch
Print Magazine
In the month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah, a signal goes out to every Jewish soul that it is time to return to the palace that is home.
It is a signal both subtle and loud.
Subtle, because it does not awaken even those who are closest—every soul must awaken itself. Loud, because it reaches those who have been...
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