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I Never Do Anything Wrong
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The Shmuz on the Parsha
R’ Ben Tzion Shafier
I Never Do Anything Wrong
Parshas Nasoh
“Speak to the Bnai Yisrael and say to them: any man whose wife shall go astray and commit treachery against him. . . ” — Bamidbar 5: ....
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Posted 6/17/2016 6:39 PM |
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The Blessing of Love
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By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
At 176 verses, Naso is the longest of the parshiyot. Yet one of its most moving passages, and the one that has had the greatest impact over the course of history, is very short indeed and is known by almost ev ....
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Posted 6/17/2016 5:47 PM |
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Posted 6/16/2016 7:35 PM |
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Parshas Bamidbar 5776 Erev Shavuos
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QUESTION:
What is meant by derech eretz kodmah l'Torah, that derech eretz is before the Torah?
ANSWER:
Somebody told me that he couldn't find that statement; it's a Midrash Rabah in Vayikra. And it states, der ....
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Posted 6/10/2016 12:23 PM |
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The Sound of Silence
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By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Bamidbar is usually read on the Shabbat before Shavuot. So the sages connected the two. Shavuot is the time of the giving of the Torah. Bamibar means, “In the desert.” What then is the connection between the d ....
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Posted 6/10/2016 12:08 PM |
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The Power of a Tzibbur - The Shmuz on the Parsha
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R’ Ben Tzion Shafier
The Power of a Tzibbur
Parshas Bechokosai
“If you go in my ways and follow my statutes…Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and they will fall from your swor ....
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Posted 6/3/2016 5:11 PM |
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The Shmuz on the Parsha -Everybody is doing it
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R’ Ben Tzion Shafier
Everybody is doing it
Parshas BeHar
“You shall sound a broken blast on the shofar, in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the Shofar throughout you ....
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Posted 5/27/2016 5:14 PM |
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Family Feeling
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By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
I argued in Covenant and Conversation Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense, however, there is an important ethnic dimension to Judaism.
It is ....
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Posted 5/27/2016 4:43 PM |
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Posted 5/26/2016 1:52 PM |
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Sefiras Ha’Omer- Why We Count, What We Count
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The Shmuz on the Parsha
R’ Ben Tzion Shafier
Parshas Emor
“And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the rest day, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving — seven weeks, they shall be com ....
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Posted 5/20/2016 3:56 PM |
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Holy Times
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By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
The parsha of Emor contains a chapter dedicated to the festivals of the Jewish year. There are five such passages in the Torah. Two, both in the book of Exodus (Ex. 23:14-17; 34:18, 22-23), are very brief. T ....
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Posted 5/20/2016 2:35 PM |
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In Search of Jewish Identitiy
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By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
The other day I was having a conversation with a Jewish intellectual and the question came up, as it often does, as to the nature of Jewish identity. What are we? What makes us Jewish? This has been one of t ....
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Posted 5/13/2016 2:56 PM |
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The Courage to Admit Mistakes.
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By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Some years ago I was visited by the then American ambassador to the Court of St James, Philip Lader. He told me of a fascinating project he and his wife had initiated in 1981. They had come to realise that man ....
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Posted 5/6/2016 5:00 PM |
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The Missing Fifth
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The Missing Fifth – An Extract from Rabbi Sacks’ Haggada
Many commentators, among them the Vilna Gaon, have drawn attention to the influence of the number four in connection with the Haggadah. There are four fours:
Th ....
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Posted 4/21/2016 3:39 PM |
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The Eighth Day
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By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Our parsha begins with childbirth and, in the case of a male child, “On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised” (Lev. 12:3). This became known not just as milah, “circumcision”, but some ....
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Posted 4/8/2016 4:44 PM |
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Posted 4/1/2016 3:42 PM |
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Parshas Tzav
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The world gives the impression as if it operates by itself. Although a nonbiased individual should be able to discern the Grand Puppeteer behind the stage, it seems that most people are simply oblivious to the Creator. A fascinating explanation of a ....
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Posted 3/27/2016 12:08 PM |
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How to Celebrate Purim - 5776: Happy Purim
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by Rabbi Michalowicz
Purim is celebrated this year on Wednesday evening March 23th and Thursday March 24th.
1 – Fast of Esther:
1. The fast is on Wednesday, March 4th.
2. The fast begins at 5:48 A.M. and ends at 8:25 P.M. ....
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Posted 3/18/2016 5:21 PM |
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A Moment with Rabbi Avigdor Miller Zt"l #124
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Question #124
QUESTION:
When Adar comes in we are told to increase our joy. Why is that?
ANSWER:Because it's a season that requires a certain frame of mind. Purim requires joy, Pesach requires joy. In order, how ....
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Posted 3/18/2016 5:06 PM |
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Don't Sit: Walk
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By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Sitting is the new smoking. So goes the new health mantra. Spend too much time at a desk or in front of a screen and you are at risk of significant danger to your health. The World Health Organisation has id ....
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Posted 3/11/2016 4:09 PM |
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