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This morning I entered the bank. While waiting on line, I noticed a small commotion. A number of people were standing around a young crying boy who was holding an Israeli 50-shekel note in his hands.

In post-1917 Russia, Judaism and Zionism (and the Hebrew language) came under attack, so manuscripts such as this one often had to pass secretly from hand to hand.

Even when indicating support for the Abraham Accords as a promising enterprise, from President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken on down members of the Biden team never fail to pay homage to “two states,” however much it is in passing.

Queen-less bees become agitated. Have we ensured that those who rely on us for clear guidelines and expectations have received them, so they don't feel leader-less?

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In discussing the Holocaust, the Rebbe categorically rejected any theological explanation for it. How can one have the audacity to provide a “reason” for the death and torture of millions of innocent men, women, and children?

The Baal Shem Tov taught that we must learn from everything we see. Unexpectedly, seeing through eclipse glasses taught me something tangible about how change can work and especially how the unfolding of Jewish history is a trajectory along a path that leads to a radical switch.

As a Jew living in Israel I can express my burning desire that this whole country be united and focused on the same Jewish morals and values.

I find myself laughing out loud. Hubby does not go on to read the articles, just the titles. And yet, he is actually right. Much of the news is not really new or even news-worthy.

Zionism doesn’t maintain Jews have a right to the land of Israel so that Jews will have a place of refuge, the Jewish right to their ancestral homeland stands irrespective of Jewish safety and security.

The sale is valid since the food is essentially of the same type, and most people are not particular how an animal is raised.

While in this world the soul we have is what we have to fix and therefore each person has a different soul and a different mission, just like the rain drops.

So the mayor confirms up front that he is aiming to make a political point to Trump supporters.

To see a person as good despite his/her past actions; To give them a second chance knowing full well that they might ultimately fail again.

You want to move forward, but worry that your varying views may cause friction in the future. You want to make it work, and want to know how that can be done.

G-d is the only “force” that is completely sovereign and independent. The rest of creation, however, requires a dynamic giver-taker relationship.

A final caution: It is assumed as a matter of common decency that in publishing such posthumous works that one do so with the permission of next of kin or other copyright holder, unless many years have passed and the work is now in the public domain.

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Visitors have to be mindful when they are visiting family in a private house, that they are not in a hotel, where they feel it's ok to leave a mess for someone else to clean up.

Beware The Fruit! ‘A Misasek Is Excluded’ (Kereisos 19a)

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If the Jew accepts responsibility for the chametz – that of shomer sachar or, according to some, even that of a shomer chinam – he violates bal yimatzei (O.C. 440:1).

Our soul wants, to be better, different, true. Now the soul prevails over the body, and in the last moments of this journey, we must take something with us, some 'soul food' for the road ahead.

Judaism isn’t a religion like other religions the world has become familiar with over the past two thousand years. Judaism isn’t just about G-d, beliefs, and action, it is about peoplehood.

When Mr. Moses confronted the writer, the latter replied, "To the best of my knowledge, what I wrote was true." Mr. Moses vigorously disagreed, but the writer wouldn’t budge, so Mr. Moses sued him in Rabbi Dayan's beis din.

I admit to the fact that when she was in this world I did not consciously think of her every day. I did not talk to her every day. But I did feel her every day.

When it comes to the order of application, I always tell everyone it is basically the opposite of weekday.

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Rav Sheshes, though, maintains that a dice gambler is disqualified only when he lives off of gambling and doesn’t have another profession.