Toldot 5769 - November 28, 2008 |
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Do You Hear Me?
By Chana Weisberg
Here's an experiment to try the next time you meet someone—it could be an annoying telemarketer over the phone or a neighbor in the local grocery store... |
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"What If There Is A G‑d?"
By Yossy Gordon
The door swung open and Rabbi Shlomo walked out and began to pace in the waiting room. Suddenly, he loudly exclaimed: "Young man, young man, what will be if indeed there is a G‑d in this world?" |
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I Had a Dream
By Elad Nehorai
I gave him the list. Two pages long. Everything from, "How do I know the Torah is from G‑d and that it's true?" to "Why did G‑d create scorpions and mosquitoes?" |
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Our Greatest Fear
By Dr. Miriam Adahan
It seems that what people fear more than anything is not crime, illness or even death. The greatest fear is their own feelings, especially the "big three": loneliness, helplessness and insignificance. |
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Losers
By Sara Chana Radcliffe
You know who they are—children who lose everything: homework assignments, library books, mittens, wallets and hats. An endless source of frustration for parents and teachers, "losers" are the most frustrated of all: they waste their own precious time and lose objects they value. |
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The Parshah in a Nutsell
Jacob is born clutching Esau's heel; their father favors the hunter, their mother the scholar, and the former sells his birthright to the latter for a pot of red lentil stew. Thus the stage is set for a cosmic struggle which still engulfs us today |
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How Rebecca Learned to Fly
By Stacey Goldman
Some of us thrive as a result of a challenging environment; our struggles refine our characters and make us even greater people. And sometimes, no matter what we do, we cannot seem to rise above the circumstances of our birth... |
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The Book or the Blade?
By Yossy Goldman
I myself am lucky to be alive. I remember going to pay a house visit on a family in my congregation and being attacked by their young son who had an AK-47 |
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Jacob and Esau
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Ishmael's mother was the Egyptian Hagar, while Isaac was born to the righteous Sarah. But Jacob and Esau were twins; what explain their divergent characters? |
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Faking It
By Yanki Tauber
Imagine what Jacob must have felt like dressing in Esau's hunting clothes, pasting artificial hair on his arms and the back of his neck, stealing into his father's room and conniving to receive the blessings intended for his brother. Whatever for does Jacob need "the dew of heaven and the fat of the land," anyway? |
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Almost Twins
By Robyn Cuspin
Happily contemplating the way our family was now growing on the fast track, I didn't honestly consider the second ultrasound as anything more than a technicality... |
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International Jewish Activists Conference Kicks Off in New York
By Tamar Runyan
Whether by plane, train or car, thousands of Jewish activists from all over the world made their way to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., for the much-anticipated 25th annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. |
