19 May THE CAMERA IS ALWAYS ON – YOU COULD GO VIRAL

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In 2007, an employee of a New Jersey Dunkin Donuts named Dustin Hoffmann (not that one) made news when the store was nearly robbed by a serial robber who jumped...

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19 May NASSO: IT TAKES ONE MAN IN CHINA—OR MINNESOTA

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The Nuremberg Trials In the film “Judgment at Nuremberg,” American judge Dan Haywood sentences Ernst Janning, an important legal figure in Germany even before the rise of Hitler, to life in...

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19 May HALACHICALLY SPEAKING: KRIAH UPON SEEING YERUSHALAYIM AND THE KOSEL HAMARAVI

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We live in world today where it is very hard to realize what we are missing by not having the Bais Hamikdosh around. We get to comfortable with hour houses...

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19 May NASO- DECLUTTERING OUR LIVES

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All of us, I imagine, find life stressful. But at least for most of us, it doesn’t have to be this way. The Torah in Parashat Naso discusses the laws of...

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19 May NASSO- THE SANCTITY OF JEWISH MARRIAGE

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The Gemorah (Kiddushin 2b) tells us that the phrase “harei at m’kudeshet li” that we use under the chuppah is not a biblical expression at all, rather it is a...

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19 May PARASHAT NASO- RECTIFYING THE SIN OF ADAM AND CHAVA

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Parashat Naso incorporates a variety of different topics which, at first glance, appear unrelated: 1) The tribe of Levi’s responsibility to tend to the needs of the Mishkan; 2) The obligation to...

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19 May NASO

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A first grade melamed was confronted with a problem; one of the students of his class was stealing. He first realized that there was a problem when the children of...

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19 May WHY BIRCHAS KOHANIM?

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The posuk in Bamidbar 6:23 says that Hashem commanded Aharon and his sons to bless the Yidden. The Sefer Metzach Aharon discusses an interesting question. Why did Hashem choose the...

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19 May DOES G-D FOOL US?

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I. Misleading Messages One of the approaches to respond to the biblical challenge of the age of the universe is the theory that the world was created fully grown, so to...

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19 May THE DIGNITY OF MAN

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Jews don’t count people. Instead the Torah creates a system of tabulating the population without actually counting human beings. This indirect counting scheme is delineated in parshat Ki Tisa: each...

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