Posts by Yosef Farhi
The Afterlife Article
The Afterlife Article Parashat Tzav I found that the best way for me to get used to speaking fluent Hebrew and to get familiar with Israeli slang and culture is by reading a Hebrew joke book and testing the jokes on Israeli kids. Jokes are short, so you can remember their exact wording, and this…
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+ or – Parashat Vayikra Probably the hardest part of coaching is getting started. How do you begin the conversation with the person you are coaching so that they will open up? Sometimes, a person knows what he wants, so he is much easier to coach. But, more often than not, people don’t know. They…
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A PASSIONATE THOUGHT Parashat Pekudei If you want to be successful at something, you need to be passionate about it. The greater the challenge to be successful, the more passion you need. Take two people. Both from similar backgrounds. Both with similar strengths and weaknesses. Both going through the same motions. Both going for the…
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BE DO HAVE Parashat Vayakhel Life decisions are complex. It is not the surrounding circumstances that make these life decisions complex. It is defining identity that is complex. For many people, the biggest life decision is marriage. Before any life decision one makes, one must know who he is, in order to be certain that…
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A G-D Like I.D. Parashat Ki Tisa SOME husbands believe that if they were richer, their wife would respect them more. If they could outsmart people, outdo her siblings or her friend’s husband, then their wife might love them more. There is no greater mistake a husband can make. A woman wants one thing from…
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