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Tazria 5768 - April 4, 2008

Lifecycle Events
Birthdays in Jewish History
Which famous biblical personalities had noteworthy birthdays? Starting with the first created humans, we chronicle some of the historic Jewish birthday moments.
Living
Consumer Confidence

Our spending or saving habits, our optimism or pessimism, plays a role in determining whether we descend into a recession or catapult back into economic expansion. How does this rule of finances apply to our own lives as a whole?
Parshah
The Parshah in a Nutshell
Post-childbirth ritual purification, and tzaraat (“leprosy”), a spiritual affliction.
Healthy Selfishness

The Mishnah teaches that “all afflictions one sees, except his own . . .”
Birth and Rebirth

The experience of galut (exile) is compared to a state of pregnancy.
When Was Your Last Spiritual?

What’s a “spiritual”? It has all the trappings of the routine checkup we call a “physical”—height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress tests on the treadmill and up and down the little staircase . . .
Speak Nicely, but Clearly

"I went to a psychiatrist and he helped me solve my problem," said the compulsive shoplifter. "I don't feel guilty anymore"
Riding with the Moon

Did you ever wonder why our calendar has both weeks and months? Why follow two different cycles that never match up?
The 29th Day

On the essence of lunar time.
The Jewish Woman
Beauty of the Beast

I often find myself at odds with a culture that holds us to a standard of slickness, of airbrushed images and perfect lives. As an artist, I'm on the lookout for the shadows between the light...
A Mother's Love

I hear the muffled volley of voices. First, the high pitched, tiny voice of my little girl; her pleading tone rings out clearly. Then the staccato angry bursts of my teenaged daughter's refusal...
We Are the Invisible Caregivers

A portly gentleman in his mid-sixties collapses into bed each evening, exhausted and spent. His wife by his side, they are attached wrist to wrist with a cord, in case she tries to walk out of the apartment in the middle of the night . . .
The first thing we heard from the Rebbe was: "What is forbidden, one must not; and what is permitted, one need not"
— Rabbi Mordechai of Haradak, a disciple of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi
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...