Parsha
THE ART OF FEELING FOR OTHERS
click vaera 2025 for download THE ART OF FEELING FOR OTHERS This week’s Torah portion contains an interesting nuance. It begins with the genealogy of the tribes: “These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuven… the sons of Shimon… and these are the names of the sons of Levi.” The Shnei…
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click shemot 2025 to download THE ART OF BALANCING SHIELDING AND EXPLORATION Parents often grapple with the balance between shielding children and allowing them to explore. Shield too much, and you’ll raise a bubble-wrapped adult, who can’t change his own flat tire. They will never know how to go bowling without the bumpers, or take…
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click Emor 2024 to download THE ART OF BEING CHOSEN Rabbi Yehuda Teriki said the following, wild story. There was a couple that lived in London. They brought up their only child with love. When their son became of marriageable age, they set him up with the greatest, sweetest, girl. The couple, together, bought a…
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click acharei mot 2024 to download THE ART OF BEING UNIQUE This weeks Haftarah, calls us all כושים , black people, in the literal sense of the word. R Eliezer Ben Hurkenus gives it a twist though. He says that when the Torah refers to a Jew as black, it means metaphorically. Just as the…
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click shemini 2024 to download THE ART OF RENEWAL Big days are ahead of us. The whole month of Nissan, we don’t say Tahanun. This is because the whole month is considered Rosh Hodesh, as it says, הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם רֹ֣אשׁ חֳדָשִׁ֑ים. The first 12 days, we don’t say Tahanun because those days are the…
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