Parshah Musings

By Elisha Greenbaum

We all want the best for our children and hope they make the right choices in life. It's just that too often we're unwilling to expend the effort to model the behavior that we expect of them.

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The Gold of Egypt

By Elisha Greenbaum

Wherever one finds oneself, whatever one is doing, there is a purpose to be realized and spiritual profits to be pursued

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Would You Bring a Sheep into your House?

By Elisha Greenbaum

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Circumcisions and Seders

By Elisha Greenbaum

Assimilated Jews, intermarried Jews, you-name-it type of Jews, all circumcise their sons, and almost all sit down to a Passover seder. Why, what do these two commandments have that the others don’t?

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When Is Passover this Year?

By Elisha Greenbaum

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Rosh Hashanah would be regular and Passover punctual? And there would be an absolute guarantee that the World Series and Yom Kippur don't clash...

Why G‑d Didn’t Delegate

By Elisha Greenbaum

People in trouble don’t have the time or luxury to wait while you quibble over the command structure; they’re waiting for you to rescue them from evil.

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Pass It On

By Elisha Greenbaum

Though hailing from a 500-year line of rabbis and religious thinkers, trained in traditional Lithuanian yeshivahs and with a Ph.D. in philosophy, he provided almost no systematic grounding in Judaism to his own children.