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Too Good To Be Parve – Lemon Shortbread Cookies
Perfect Parve Cookies… Every once in a while I amble around amongst the blogs, just searching for something, but I don’t quite know what. It’s usually about this time of year, about a month or so...
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Shlach – 5774
Why spy something out? What’s the purpose of sending an advance guard? Part of the problem with understanding this week’s parashara is one of translation. Moshe didn’t send “spies” per se. Nowhere...
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Korach – 5774
Negotiating with G-d Why on earth would we ever think that G-d, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, could ever be negotiated with? What hutzpah, what hubris to think that our opinions matter. That G-d can be...
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Chukat – 5774
Water from a Rock, and the Pursuit of Perfection What’s the connection between these two concepts in this week’s Parasha? Chukat opens with a description of the ritual of the red heifer, without which...
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Balak – 5774
Talking equines. My, my, my. What do we do when the asses talk back? Declare a new world order? Pull our hair out in dismay, or discount the occurrence as fantasy or fable? Part of the problem...
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Pinchas – 5774
Sons and Daughters Parashat Pinchas has a subtle message about the behavior of children with regard to their parent’s will. The parasha opens with a census of all Israelites from the age of twenty up,...
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Matot – 5774
Building cities or tearing them down? In this week’s parasha we see Am Israel go to war against Midian, the primary settlement was east of the gulf of Aqabah, on the Saudi Arabian peninsula. The...
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Va’Etchanan – 5774
Hard sell. It’s all around us. Buy this, buy that. This will improve your life, your business, your well-being, your family, your reputation,. Improve your x, buy more y. It’s inescapable. Who is...
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Ekev – 5774
When does a person excel? Think of athletes, actors, musicians. Those who excel are driven to demand much of themselves. They perfect themselves, they perfect their performance. No one who truly...
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Re’eh – 5774
Parashat Re’eh is perhaps the most visual parashot of the entire Tanaach, well-named “re-eh“ or see. Everything pivots around visual perception – what we see in the galut around us, what we build...
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Ki Tetzei – 5774
Opportunism and war. A passage at the end of Shoftim and it’s near parallel in Ki Tetzei – the prohibition against the cutting down of fruit trees in war and the laws concerning the rape of a woman...
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Ki Tavo – 5774
If you wander around the blogs these days, you will see that “decluttering” is a hot issue. Not to purchase more than one needs, eliminate that which you don’t need: less is more. In decorating, of...
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Nitzavim – Vayelech – 5774
והיה בי-תבאו עליך כל-הדברים האלה הברכה והקללה אשר נתתי לפנ,נך והשבת אל-לבבך בכל-הגוים אשר הדיחך יהיה אלקיך שמה: ושבת עד-יהיה אלקיך ושעת בקלו ככל אשר-אנכי מצוך היום אתה ובניך בכל-לבבך ובכל-נפשך: ושב...
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Yom HaKippur – 5775
On Yom Kippur we have the highest readership, as it were, of the entire year. The regulars are in shul, the mothers and babes are in shul, and of course the “I’ll make one effort per year” Jews are...
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