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Shavuot 5766 - June 1, 2006
Hidden Fruit
As I mouth the words, I feel every fiber of my being rebelling. He has not made His world lacking? Not lacking in anything?
As I mouth the words, I feel every fiber of my being rebelling. He has not made His world lacking? Not lacking in anything?
Tanagers
They seem just as human as the others. They bleed when cut, and the blood is always red. A gentile could eat cholent and a Jew could own a baseball team. Are they one species or two?
They seem just as human as the others. They bleed when cut, and the blood is always red. A gentile could eat cholent and a Jew could own a baseball team. Are they one species or two?
Story
Elijah the Prophet in Minsk
A chassid went to the Baal Shem Tov in Mezhibuzh. “Rebbe,” he said, “I want to see Elijah the Prophet . . .”
A chassid went to the Baal Shem Tov in Mezhibuzh. “Rebbe,” he said, “I want to see Elijah the Prophet . . .”
Ten for the Price of One
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Parshah
Shavuot Torah Readings in a Nutshell
Who are the Jews, what it means to be "chosen", the revelation at Sinai, the Ten Commandments, and the three pilgrimage festivals
Who are the Jews, what it means to be "chosen", the revelation at Sinai, the Ten Commandments, and the three pilgrimage festivals
The Torah: an Anthology
40 essays, stories, meditations and readings, each offering a glimpse into something the Torah says about itself and its place in our lives
40 essays, stories, meditations and readings, each offering a glimpse into something the Torah says about itself and its place in our lives
There was once a king who had an only daughter, and one of the kings came and married her. When her husband wished to return to his country, her father said to him: "My daughter, whose hand I have given you, is my only child; I cannot part with her. Neither can I say to you, 'Do not take her,' for she is your wife. This one favor, however, I ask of you: wherever you go to live, prepare a chamber for me that I may dwell with you, for I cannot leave my daughter" ... In the same way, G-d said to Israel: "I have given you the Torah. I cannot part with her, and I also cannot tell you not to take her. But this I request of you: wherever you go, make for Me a house wherein I may dwell..."
— Midrash Rabbah
Print Magazine
It’s G-d’s world. Everything He gives is good, the sweetest good.
But it is often a good far too great for us to understand. We imagine it is not good, because that’s the only way to make sense of it with our small minds.
Yet the truth is, He gives us all the good we can handle. If we could take more, He would g...
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