ב"ה
Va'eira 5766 - January 27, 2006
Man as Verb
I'll let you in on a little surprise: Who says that yourself is the real you? Maybe the real you is not a subject, not an object, but a verb? Maybe the real you is to be found not in who you are but in those things you need to do?
I'll let you in on a little surprise: Who says that yourself is the real you? Maybe the real you is not a subject, not an object, but a verb? Maybe the real you is to be found not in who you are but in those things you need to do?
Parshah
Va’era in a Nutshell
G-d promises to redeem the Israelites from their oppression. Moses and Aaron repeatedly demand of Pharaoh to let the nation leave. The Egyptians experience the first seven plagues: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils and hail.
G-d promises to redeem the Israelites from their oppression. Moses and Aaron repeatedly demand of Pharaoh to let the nation leave. The Egyptians experience the first seven plagues: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils and hail.
My First Yizkor
For the first 33 years of my life, I never probed the reason why non-mourners leave the room. I was happy to be legally expelled from the synagogue and catch a schmooze with a fellow yizkor-evacuee...
For the first 33 years of my life, I never probed the reason why non-mourners leave the room. I was happy to be legally expelled from the synagogue and catch a schmooze with a fellow yizkor-evacuee...
Living
Vegetable Soup
There's nothing like a hot nourishing bowl of soup to soothe the mind -- and the ego...
There's nothing like a hot nourishing bowl of soup to soothe the mind -- and the ego...
Story
The Confused Camel
Why do I have this hump perched on my back? These weird long eye-lashes? These awkwardly-shaped feet?
Why do I have this hump perched on my back? These weird long eye-lashes? These awkwardly-shaped feet?
Baby Basket Gridlock on the Nile
Senior Weather/Catastrophe Correspondent Jono gives us a meteorological look at the ten plagues.
Senior Weather/Catastrophe Correspondent Jono gives us a meteorological look at the ten plagues.
The truly humble soul recognizes that its mission in life lies in the pragmatic aspect of Torah, both in studying it for himself and explaining it to others; and in doing acts of material kindness by lending an empathizing mind and counsel from afar regarding household concerns, though the majority, if not all, of these concerns are things of falsehood. For the loftiest beginnings are rooted in the end.
— From a note penned by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi shortly before his passing
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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