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Tammuz 17, 5766 - July 13, 2006

Squeezed

What happens when all the pain and torment, all the sins and sorrows of a 4,000-year-old people are squeezed into a space of three weeks?
Parshah
Pinchas in a Nutshell
Pinchas is rewarded for his zealotry. Another census, the laws of inheritance, and the division of the Land of Israel. Moses appoints Joshua as his successor.
Story
The Damaged Diamond: A Parable

Abruptly, the perfect, flawless diamond fell to the ground and became deeply scratched...
Finding G-d in the Details

If you’ve ever had this experience, you have unwittingly stumbled upon one of the core spiritual secrets of Creation: a three-fold pattern of vision-breakdown-transformation, or light-darkness-light.
Shoelaces

I saw the craziest thing in the Code of Jewish Law. It tells you how to tie your shoes!
Parenting
Controlling the Control

The hardest part is not relying or resorting to a solution that may appear harmless, is cheap, convenient, easy, mobile and works. Kind of.
Lotto Land

Pinchas gets promoted, a certain obnoxious muppet proposes a scratch-off version of the biblical lottery of the Land of Israel, Moses appoints a successor, and Jono sacrifices his shoe
The countenance of Moses was like that of the sun; the countenance of Joshua was like that of the moon
— Talmud, Bava Batra 75a
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...