The reality of the situation is that none of us can ever truly be perfect. The best we can do is try to be the best we can be and learn from our mistakes in the process.
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Inspiration
You Gotta Have Faith, Faith, Faith: Why Emunah Is A Choice And Not A Leap
Emunah is better translated as conviction. It’s related to the word “emet,” which means “truth,” but there’s a slight difference between the two words.
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The Loss of a Baby
Savitsky talks with Rabbi Yamin Levy, author of Confronting the Loss of a Baby: A Personal and Jewish Perspective.
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Dear That’s Life: How Do You Spell ‘Knaidel’?
Did the Scripps National Spelling Bee spell the word ‘Knaidel’ right and, is it a good thing that American society has fully accepted “Yiddish-isms” into their pop-culture vernacular?
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The Wickedness of “Live and Let Live”
A visitor to Sodom seeking to purchase food would be told by the merchants, “keep your money (what’s yours is yours) and I will keep my food (and what is mine is mine)”… In a complex and difficult world, most people simply want to “tend to their own gardens” – to be left to take
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A Jew for All Jews: My Friend, Donald Butler
We live in fraught times; times of anger and fear; times of polarization. We see this in the politics of our nation and in the discourse by people of faith. In so many aspects of life, people seem to sullenly retreat into those beliefs, feelings or opinions to which they subscribe, without regard for the
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4 Steps to Safeguarding Your Moral Purity
How to protect yourself and your family from the immorality around us.
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Parshas Emor: Why Do We Count?
Excerpted from Rabbi Shmuel Goldin’s ’Unlocking The Torah Text: An In-Depth Journey Into The Weekly Parsha- Vayikra’ Click here to buy the book Context In the midst of the Torah’s discussion concerning the festival cycle, immediately after the commandment concerning the Omer offering (a barley offering in the Temple which marks the beginning of the harvest
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Shoshie Stern
Why does it take the death of a 12-year-old girl to bring us all together? Surely there are events, programs, commemorations, or speakers for which we can gather even more people with a sense of unity and cohesiveness.
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From Pesach to Shavuos – The Journey from Love to Relationship
Without the mystery of attraction, you would never get married. Most likely, you would scrutinize the other person to no end.
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