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Yitro 5765 - January 28, 2005
Blossoms in the Winter?
I live in Connecticut, and all I see this time of the year is snow and bare branches. What's the point of celebrating the "New Year for Trees" in January?
I live in Connecticut, and all I see this time of the year is snow and bare branches. What's the point of celebrating the "New Year for Trees" in January?
Parshah
Yitro in a Nutshell
The Israelites camp opposite Mount Sinai, and declare their willingness to perform G-d’s will. G-d proclaims the Ten Commandments, but His voice is too intense for the Israelites, and they beg Moses to be their intermediary.
The Israelites camp opposite Mount Sinai, and declare their willingness to perform G-d’s will. G-d proclaims the Ten Commandments, but His voice is too intense for the Israelites, and they beg Moses to be their intermediary.
The Torah as Marriage
We've been studying his mind all our lives. But we still don't get it... It's a mumble-jumble of scattered fragments, each part playing the other's role in an untamed cacophony of an orchestra tuning up
We've been studying his mind all our lives. But we still don't get it... It's a mumble-jumble of scattered fragments, each part playing the other's role in an untamed cacophony of an orchestra tuning up
Why So Many Don'ts on Shabbat?
I love the Shabbat experience, but why so many restrictions? All that "don't do this" and "don't do that" -- sounds more like a prison than a day of rest!
I love the Shabbat experience, but why so many restrictions? All that "don't do this" and "don't do that" -- sounds more like a prison than a day of rest!
Story
The Dance
"When an officer falls in battle," their rebbe said, "will the ranks of the soldiers disperse and flee...?!"
"When an officer falls in battle," their rebbe said, "will the ranks of the soldiers disperse and flee...?!"
Parenting
Teamwork Parenting
"If I say yes, he will say no. When he wants to deal with the situation in a nice way, I want to be tough. Our children sense our differences and play us against each other..."
"If I say yes, he will say no. When he wants to deal with the situation in a nice way, I want to be tough. Our children sense our differences and play us against each other..."
Man and Tree: a Tu B'Shevat Anthology
The Human Tree... The Seven Kinds... Branches... The Leaf... A Tree's New Year Resolutions... Fruit for thought for Tu B'Shevat (the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat), the "New Year for Trees"
The Human Tree... The Seven Kinds... Branches... The Leaf... A Tree's New Year Resolutions... Fruit for thought for Tu B'Shevat (the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat), the "New Year for Trees"
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to G‑d. Do not do any work: neither you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your animal, nor your sojourner who is in your cities. For in six days G‑d made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore G‑d blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
— Exodus 20:8–11 (fourth of the Ten Commandments)
Print Magazine
Looking at your world from Above, all is good.
Looking at your world from within, things don’t always look so nice.
Until you connect your world below to the world above. Then the goodness flows downward without distortion.
How do you make that connection? By clinging tightly above.
By putting all your trust in G‑d.
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