Every chapter, verse, word, and even letter in the Five Books of Moses is filled with meaning and timeless life lessons. Jews read this sacred text from a parchment Torah scroll in synagogue each year, with a different section (parsha) allocated to each week. Year after year we read the same parshas, always finding deeper meanings and new relevance to our lives and the world around us.
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Shoftim Table For Five – Shoftim
Five different takes on Deut 20:8 – Is there anyone afraid and disheartened? Let him go back to his home, lest the courage of his comrades flag like this.
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Re'eh Table For Five – Re’eh
Five different takes on Deut 12:16 – But you must not partake of the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
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Eikev Table For Five – Eikev
Five different takes on Deut 9:13 – The LORD further said to me, “I see that this is a stiff-necked people.”
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Va'etchanan Table For Five – Va’etchanan
Five different takes on Deut. 6:5 – You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
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The Summer Solstice And Judaism – Bring On the Clouds!
The longest day of the year is a time when God’s presence is most concealed. Even on a hot, cloudless day, however, the Sages’ words of Torah aroused moisture in the air, which in turn created the beautiful semblance of a rainbow.
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How To Create Change According To God And The Berdichever Rebbe
To communicate effectively with people who disagree with us – especially those who are on the fence and can actually be won over – we must tailor our words to the listener.
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America Was Founded On Torah
In a wonderful talk by R’ Tzvi Freeman at Maayon Yisroel last night, I learned that Thomas Jefferson’s first draft of the American Declaration of Independence (1776) stated, “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal…”
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One Who Turns 50 Gives Advice
My pals, today I turn 50. According to our Sages, this is the age at which one gives advice.
Here are 21 pebbles of wisdom I’ve picked up in my 50 trips around the sun:
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Curing Jewish Ignorance
Too many Jews are turning their back on something they don’t even know. I was one of them.
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Day 2704 – What is a Soul?
One week to go. After seven and a half years of reading Talmud, only seven days and seven pages remain until the Daf Yomi cycle renews. G-d willing, I will attend the massive celebration called Siyum HaShasat MetLife Stadium in New Jersey next week, along with nearly 100,000 other Jews. I can scarcely believe it.