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Purim 5762 - February 26, 2002
Purim is about being different. You can also say that it's about being unique. Or special. You can sound superior, intimidated, blessed, fulfilled — depending on the words you use and how you use them. Bottom line, it's the day that we celebrate our Jewishness, the day that we rejoice in who we are...
Oil and Wine
Wine has no secrets: when a thing is what it is, it's the same from the inside looking out and from the outside looking in
Wine has no secrets: when a thing is what it is, it's the same from the inside looking out and from the outside looking in
Megillah With In-Depth Commentary—Side by Side Version
The original text of the Megillah (Book of Esther) with a running commentary culled from the Talmud and Midrash, the great Torah commentators and the chassidic masters.
The original text of the Megillah (Book of Esther) with a running commentary culled from the Talmud and Midrash, the great Torah commentators and the chassidic masters.
Parshah
Ki Tisa Home Page
It's all there in this week's Torah reading: the 120-day version of the human story, the breaking of the Tablets, Moses' heaven-shaking disputations with G-d, the disparity and parity of sin and sanctity...
It's all there in this week's Torah reading: the 120-day version of the human story, the breaking of the Tablets, Moses' heaven-shaking disputations with G-d, the disparity and parity of sin and sanctity...
Ki Tisa in a Nutshell
It's all there in this week's Torah reading: the 120-day version of the human story, the breaking of the Tablets, Moses' heaven-shaking disputations with G-d, a calf called death and its mother, the disparity and parity of sin and sanctity
It's all there in this week's Torah reading: the 120-day version of the human story, the breaking of the Tablets, Moses' heaven-shaking disputations with G-d, a calf called death and its mother, the disparity and parity of sin and sanctity
Story
Purim Saddam
400 apartments housing 1,200 people were destroyed or damaged. Tel Aviv hospitals were prepared to handle mass casualties
400 apartments housing 1,200 people were destroyed or damaged. Tel Aviv hospitals were prepared to handle mass casualties
Why Do Jews Exclude Other People?
My fiancé's parents told me that for a Jew to marry a non-Jew is worse than the Holocaust! I don't get it. Am I really that terrible?
My fiancé's parents told me that for a Jew to marry a non-Jew is worse than the Holocaust! I don't get it. Am I really that terrible?
Parenting
Anger Control
A way to get out of an angry state is by performing a physical action with our body which is totally opposite to our emotional feelings at the time
A way to get out of an angry state is by performing a physical action with our body which is totally opposite to our emotional feelings at the time
Purim Review
The difference between the gragger and the dreidel, why we disguise ourselves on Purim, the three points of the hamantash, Yom Kippur as the "day like Purim", Jewish drunks...
The difference between the gragger and the dreidel, why we disguise ourselves on Purim, the three points of the hamantash, Yom Kippur as the "day like Purim", Jewish drunks...
"And to the Jews was light, happiness, joy and prestige" (Esther 8:16). "Light" is Torah, "happiness" are the festivals, "joy" is circumcision and "prestige" is tefillin.
— Talmud, Megillah 16b
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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