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Devarim 5763 - August 1, 2003

Yearning

What would it be like to live in a world without death, pain or suffering, without struggle or striving, anxiety or yearning, without deadlines or hassles, effort or achievement? What would we do all day?
Parshah
Devarim in a Nutshell
For thirty-seven days Moses talks: recalling, reminding, rebuking, warning, promising; about the revelation at Sinai and their journeys through the desert, about spies and wars and victories and the Land, and what it’s like to serve as a leader of G‑d’s chosen people.
Losing Blood

It seems to me that in such times we glimpse what it means to do more than simply live, and to truly never die
Story
A Tale of Two Kabbalists

"I shall soon leave this world," said the great master. "The one who will take my place will say things that may seem to contradict what I have taught you, but do not oppose him, for his teachings stem from the same source as mine"
Parenting
Three Parenting Hints

Love your child's mother, don't say "No" when you mean "I don't know", and what to talk about when your children are listening
Shabbat of Vision

This Shabbat, the Chassidic masters tell us, we are granted a vision of the Third Temple. "Though we ourselves do not see it," they explain, "our souls see." But what's the point of the vision, if we don't experience it consciously? And what exactly is it that we see?
Rabban Gamliel the son of Rabbi Judah HaNassi would say: Beautiful is the study of Torah with the way of the world, for the toil of them both causes sin to be forgotten. Ultimately, all Torah study that is not accompanied with work is destined to cease and to cause sin.
— Ethics of the Fathers 2:2
Print Magazine

Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.

In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.

These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”

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