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    23 Dec

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    Dear Rabbi and Shira, Thanks for your column, I read it every week. Maybe you can help me with a problem that I’m having. Since I came home from Yeshiva, I have...

    23 Dec

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    ASARA B’TEVES IS THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30TH Many people feel that a fast day is a day to sleep and relax. However, a fast day is really a time for retrospecting and doing teshuva. Many different halachos are...

    23 Dec

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    Is it proper to enjoy good food or should we avoid worldly pleasures and focus on spiritual success? The Talmud contains a plethora of seemingly contradictory indications on whether it is morally proper for a Torah scholar, someone striving for...

    23 Dec

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    Parashat Vayigash tells of how Yaakov and his sons moved from Eretz Yisrael to Egypt. A terrible famine struck the region, and the only country which had food was Egypt, where Yosef was the ruler. After Yosef...

    23 Dec

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    Yosef sent gifts to his father upon wagons (agalos). When Yaakov saw the wagons, his spirit was rejuvenated because he was convinced that Yosef was still alive. Rashi cites the Medrash that by sending wagons (agalos), Yosef was sending...

    23 Dec

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    The Gemora teaches us, “Smuchin min HaTorah.” There is significance when two subjects are juxtaposed by Hashem in our Torah. The Birchas Ish therefore wonders why the laws not to take revenge and not to bear a grudge are...

    23 Dec

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    INGREDIENTS: 1/4 cup olive oil 3 yellow onions, thinly sliced 2 tsp crushed garlic cloves 1 tbsp fresh thyme 1/2 cup dry white wine 2 tbsp all purpose flour 2 cups beef broth (or vegetable broth) I use...

    23 Dec

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    It states (Mishlei 26:14) “The door turns on its hinges, and a lazy person on his bed.” Reb Shimshon Pinkus zt’l asks about the connection between the hinges and a lazy person. Let’s say there’s a yeshiva where one thousand bachurim study....

    23 Dec

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    When Yaakob’s sons returned to Egypt and informed him that his beloved son, Yosef, was still alive, he at first didn’t believe them (45:26). But Yaakob then saw the wagons that Yosef had sent with his brothers to...