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Excited about Routine

28.03.2024 20

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Mission Accomplished

14.03.2024 10

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The Talented Mr. Betzalel

07.03.2024 20

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The Breastplate Knows

22.02.2024 20

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Why Cherubs?

15.02.2024 10

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United as One

01.02.2024 10

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Strength in Silence

God performs two amazing feats of prodigious power in this week’s Torah reading. Most famously the Eternal parts the Sea. That was awesome. However,...

25.01.2024 20

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Harried and Hassled

11.01.2024 50

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Elusive Perfection

30.11.2023 40

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There’s No Place Like Home

23.11.2023 20

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All’s Well That Ends Well!

Did you ever hear the joke about the farmer who dug three holes on his property, and whenever he talked to his neighbors he always began, ‘Well,...

16.11.2023 20

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A Piece of the Land

Zionism is about a love affair. The Jewish people love the Land and we firmly believe that the Land loves us. That relationship probably began in this...

09.11.2023 20

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The Akeida – Lessons for Life

As the war continues, it’s hard not to think of everything one encounters in the light of the continuing emergency. That is especially true of the...

02.11.2023 20

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O Say Can You See?

It’s marvelous every year to get back to Lech Licha. I’m always a bit uncomfortable with  the book of Breishit until Avraham Avinu arrives on the...

26.10.2023 10

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Hamas–The Last Straw

The name of our ruthless enemy who callously murdered, raped and kidnapped so many people on our border with Gaza is an acronym formed from the Arabic...

19.10.2023 20

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In the Image of God

I write these articles every week, sometimes two. I have come to find the process relatively easy, as I just keep cranking them out. But not this...

12.10.2023 10

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The Guest List

Hoshana Raba is clearly one of the most important days of the Jewish calendar, rivaled only by Yom Kippur. For those of you saying, ‘You gotta be...

05.10.2023 20

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Celebrating Chosenness

When I was in NCSY many years ago, I remember getting a pamphlet called: The Chosen People; Chosen for What? I can’t remember anything from that...

28.09.2023 30

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Before God

Over the past couple of weeks, my wife and I have been talking a lot about how we should feel as we enter this period of time, called the Ten Days of...

21.09.2023 20

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The Head of the Year

Rabbi Adin Shteinzaltz pointed out that calling our New Year’s commemoration Rosh Hashanah, Head of the Year, doesn’t really make sense. No where...

14.09.2023 30

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