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Korach 5768 - June 27, 2008
Living
A Righteous Tree
This tree trunk stood in the backyard of Jana Sudova, a Czech Righteous Among the Nations, who in early 1945 hid four Jewish escapees of the death marches...
This tree trunk stood in the backyard of Jana Sudova, a Czech Righteous Among the Nations, who in early 1945 hid four Jewish escapees of the death marches...
Circle of Love
Sometimes love is not measured by a capacity to give, but rather by a capacity to receive...
Sometimes love is not measured by a capacity to give, but rather by a capacity to receive...
On One Foot
"What is hateful to you," said Hillel, "do not do to your neighbor. That is the entire Torah..."
"What is hateful to you," said Hillel, "do not do to your neighbor. That is the entire Torah..."
Questions
Does Religion Cause War?
There are a number of ways of approaching the issue. Let us try a scientific approach
There are a number of ways of approaching the issue. Let us try a scientific approach
I Don't Want To Get Old!
Will I be content and happy to live as a wrinkly old woman whom no one looks at?
Will I be content and happy to live as a wrinkly old woman whom no one looks at?
Do Jews Believe in Miracles?
What is the Jewish standpoint on miracles? How important or unimportant is miraculous phenomena to the Jewish believer?
What is the Jewish standpoint on miracles? How important or unimportant is miraculous phenomena to the Jewish believer?
The Jewish Woman
Raising a Child with Bipolar Disorder
We went back to the psychiatrist and she saw right away what it really was. My beautiful, brilliant, funny, compassionate son was literally climbing her bookcases, screaming like a wild animal...
We went back to the psychiatrist and she saw right away what it really was. My beautiful, brilliant, funny, compassionate son was literally climbing her bookcases, screaming like a wild animal...
The Kabbalah of Nutrition
The questions that we need to ask are: Why did G‑d create me this way? Why do I have to eat in order to obtain energy?
The questions that we need to ask are: Why did G‑d create me this way? Why do I have to eat in order to obtain energy?
Platitudes
"If you don't eat, you'll die." Lovely expression, and so true. It comes from my grandmother. Isn't it wonderful how platitudes bridge the generation gap? Someday she will use it on her own children. If she doesn't, I will.
"If you don't eat, you'll die." Lovely expression, and so true. It comes from my grandmother. Isn't it wonderful how platitudes bridge the generation gap? Someday she will use it on her own children. If she doesn't, I will.
Parshah
The Parshah in a Nutshell
Korach challenges Moses’ and Aaron’s leadership, inciting mutiny and offering forbidden incense. The subsequent blossoming of Aaron’s staff proves that his position as high priest is divinely ordained.
Korach challenges Moses’ and Aaron’s leadership, inciting mutiny and offering forbidden incense. The subsequent blossoming of Aaron’s staff proves that his position as high priest is divinely ordained.
Who Was Korach?
Korach's conflict with Moses is itself a maze of conflicting elements: lofty spiritual strivings and base ambitions, elitist delusions and a struggle for a classless society...
Korach's conflict with Moses is itself a maze of conflicting elements: lofty spiritual strivings and base ambitions, elitist delusions and a struggle for a classless society...
Korach Over Dinner
When I hear the M word, I feel hot air breathed down my back. Mental flags go up, signaling, "Someone's got an agenda here, and the agenda is to take you over."
When I hear the M word, I feel hot air breathed down my back. Mental flags go up, signaling, "Someone's got an agenda here, and the agenda is to take you over."
Hereby you shall know that G-d has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind
— Moses (to Korach and his followers, Numbers 16:28)
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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