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Apr 25, 2023
Step by Step: Freedom Is a Process
Why do we count the days between Pesach and Shavuos? The Nesivos Shalom teaches that the Omer helps us to continue the process of freedom...
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May 31, 2022
Shavuos: When We Give, We Receive Much More
It’s interesting that on Shavuos, the holiday when we celebrate receiving the Torah, we read Megillas Ruth, the book of Ruth. What is the...
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Sep 28, 2017
A Glimpse Into My Teshuvah Story
Summer 2011 After a few weeks at Neve, a seminary in Jerusalem, I know what I have to do. The afternoon classes are optional and everyone...
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Jun 14, 2017
Challah: What We Knead To Know
Some Background Growing up, I knew that it was customary to eat Challah on Shabbat, but I didn’t know that the actual mitzvah of Challah...
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Jun 8, 2017
What If I Just Need To Vent?
The Torah refers to humans as “midaber,” which means “a speaker.”[1] The essence of what makes us human is our quality of speech. Words...
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May 12, 2017
What Is Kabbalah?
I recently heard a story of a celebrity in L.A. who wanted to learn Kabbalah, so she invited a prominent Hollywood Rabbi to her home....
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Apr 26, 2017
Growing Each Day Despite Negativity
From the second night of Passover, we begin a 49-day period known as the “Omer.” We count each day, for seven weeks, until Shavuot, the...
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Mar 30, 2017
Pesach: The Time Of Our Personal Freedom
The Lubavitcher Rebbe teaches, “in every generation, and every day, a Jew must see himself as if he had that day been liberated from...
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Feb 23, 2017
Why Inspiration Fades & How To Make It Last
Although we received the Torah in last week’s Torah portion, Yisro, the Torah’s recounting of the events is not chronological here. This...
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Feb 9, 2017
Know That It Is Good: How To Turn Complaints Into Gratitude
When God splits the sea and the Jewish people cross through from slavery to freedom, Miriam takes out her tambourine and the women play...
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Jan 20, 2017
Are We Truly Free?
Many people think that freedom is living a life with no restriction. Is it? Many also believe that by having such freedom, we are not...
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Dec 8, 2016
The Ladder of Life
My Bat Mitzvah took place during this week’s parsha, Parsha Vayeitzei. I didn’t actually remember that; only once I returned to my Jewish...
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Oct 23, 2016
A Good Eye and A Good Heart
Shemini Atzeret, (literally “The Eighth Day of Assembly”) which starts tonight, is linked to Sukkot but is a holiday in its own right....
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Oct 13, 2016
Be Happy!
One of my favorite holidays is Sukkot (Hebrew for “booths”). Emerging with clean slates from Yom Kippur, we spend the seven days of...
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Oct 10, 2016
Last Step: Forgiveness
In my post last week, we spoke about the main steps of teshuvah, but there is one more crucial step. When we admit that we have hurt...
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Oct 7, 2016
Practical Steps to Being Better Tomorrow
During the Ten Days of Teshuvah, it is a propitious time to do teshuvah because G-d is close to us. He is like a King who has left his...
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Sep 29, 2016
God Judges Us How We Judge Others
Today’s #HighHolideas is dedicated to the aliyah (elevation) of the neshama (soul) of Elimelech Ben Basya, the young grandson of my Rabbi...
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Sep 27, 2016
Getting The Best WiFi in Prayer
Imagine you got a chance to meet with Prince William and Kate Middleton. Imagine if during the meeting, you pulled out your phone to...
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Sep 26, 2016
Why Do We Need To Pray?
Why do we need to pray to G-d? G-d is inherently perfect; He doesn’t need our prayers. We need to pray. The Hebrew word for praying is...
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Jul 28, 2016
Go To Yourself, For Yourself
What does a Jamaican man and a Jewish American girl have in common? In this case, more than you would think. Yoseph Robinson moved from...
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