ב"ה
Ki Tisa 5767 - March 9, 2007
Parshah
Ki Tisa & Parah
The Jews are counted, instructions are given for the remaining holy vessels, and two architects are chosen to direct the Tabernacle’s construction. When Moses doesn’t return on time, the people create and worship a golden calf. Moses breaks the two tablets, returns to heaven, and descends with two new tablets.
The Jews are counted, instructions are given for the remaining holy vessels, and two architects are chosen to direct the Tabernacle’s construction. When Moses doesn’t return on time, the people create and worship a golden calf. Moses breaks the two tablets, returns to heaven, and descends with two new tablets.
Story
Finding My Family
A veil of impregnable silence and pain had cut me off from any discussion or knowledge of my mother's family since their tragic and sudden deaths 35 years ago...
A veil of impregnable silence and pain had cut me off from any discussion or knowledge of my mother's family since their tragic and sudden deaths 35 years ago...
How Can I Be Happy?
When I look at myself and my life I see plenty of reasons to be miserable. Am I supposed to be able to just switch on happiness at will?
When I look at myself and my life I see plenty of reasons to be miserable. Am I supposed to be able to just switch on happiness at will?
Parenting
Proactive Parenting
Is there any benefit in compelling your child to do what is right, when he’s doing so only because he cannot disobey you?
Is there any benefit in compelling your child to do what is right, when he’s doing so only because he cannot disobey you?
The Calf’s Mother
King Solomon was baffled; Moses turned pale. Indeed, only the most incomprehensible of divine decrees -- the law of the Red Heifer -- can act as an antidote for the incomprehensible phenomenon of death
King Solomon was baffled; Moses turned pale. Indeed, only the most incomprehensible of divine decrees -- the law of the Red Heifer -- can act as an antidote for the incomprehensible phenomenon of death
Much wisdom comes through much grief
— Ecclesiastes 1:18
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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