Haholchim B'Torat HaShem
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The Grease Merchant
Monday July 2 2018, 7:57 PM Rabbi Nachman
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was a fourth generation Hassidic leader. By that time, much of the original enthusiasm of the movement had died down (with important exceptions!). People went to the Hassidic Rebbes not so much to learn closeness to G-d,...
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Simple People
Monday July 2 2018, 7:54 PM Rabbi Nachman
Rabbi Nachman told the story of King who went on a hunting trip together with his royal ministers. An unusually heavy rain began to fall, causing all the ministers to flee for their lives. The king was all alone in the forest. Finally, he found a...
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Finding Joy
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:56 AM Joy
Rabbi Nachman taught that joy is a very valuable asset. When one is joyful, he naturally feels close to G-d. "Strength and Joy are in His place" (I Chronicles 16:27). One who is joyful naturally feels close to G-d. One who lacks joy inevitable...
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Community part 1
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:54 AM Community
Community is vital. In the famous story of Choni Hame'agel, in which he slept for seventy years and all his friends and family were already gone, He prayed "Either give me friendship or give me death". (I like that much better than Patrick Henry;s...
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Community part 2
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:52 AM Community
 I once went in to a health food store and asked for a good bottle of soy sauce. The store owner pointed to a shelf, where there were two kinds of soy sauce. i asked him what the difference was. He said "This one is like a musical note played on...
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Choose Joy
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:51 AM Joy
Just a thought: There is a beautiful book called "How To Stop Worrying and Start Living", by Dale Carnegie. It was written more than half a century ago, but contains a great deal of sound advice. It occurred to me that we rarely refer to "worry"...
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Sociology
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:45 AM Sociology
A friend of mine had enrolled his daughter in a Beit Yaakov school in a small Israeli city. He was called by the principal, who informed him that his daughter was being suspended. When he asked for the reason, the principal said "It's a problem...
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Mesorah part 1
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:44 AM Mesorah
One of the difficulties in translating from one language to another, is that a word in the original language, may have more than one meaning. Sometimes, the meanings of one word could be opposites. This is the case with the word "cleave" in...
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Mesorah part 2
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:43 AM Mesorah
There are many differences between the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds not only in halachah, but also in ideology. This is especially evident in the area of Mesorah. Both Talmuds recognize the immutability of the laws given to Moses, both in...
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Mesorah part 3
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:43 AM Mesorah
A friend and colleague was the rabbi in a suburban New York synagogue. An outstanding scholar, he was displeased with several aspects of his congregation's liturgical practices. Some were peculiarities of that particular community, which he felt...
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Mesorah part 4
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:42 AM Mesorah
At the return from Babylonian Exile in about 500 BCE, the leaders of the Jewish People, Ezra and Nehemiah, with the assistance of a body of Torah scholars, including the last of the Prophets, carefully reconstructed Jewish life. This body is known...
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Mesorah part 5
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:42 AM Mesorah
In the eight century, a new movement arose on the scene of Jewish history. It was called Karaism. Its heyday was from the ninth to eleventh centuries, but it survives to this day, with some 40,000 adherents world wide. It is considered a heresy by...
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Mesorah part 6
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:41 AM Mesorah
We have seen how the great Karaite schism deeply divided the Jewish people, and continues to do so until this very day. While rejecting, in its entirety or in part, the Oral Torah, Karaism developed their own "Oral Torah", known as "Sevel...
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Mesorah part 7
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:41 AM Mesorah
The Rabbinite and Karaite communities lived largely apart since the twelfth century. Although questions were raised as to the legal status of the Karaites, these discussions were mostly theoretical. The issues were whether or not the Karaites were...
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Mesorah part 8
Wednesday April 4 2018, 11:39 AM Mesorah
With the establishment of the State of Israel, the question of who is and who isn't a Jew became very pressing. Would Jews who practiced another faith still be considered Jews, with the right to immigrate and receive full citizenship? According to...
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