ב"ה
Va'eira 5766 - January 27, 2006
Man as Verb
I'll let you in on a little surprise: Who says that yourself is the real you? Maybe the real you is not a subject, not an object, but a verb? Maybe the real you is to be found not in who you are but in those things you need to do?
I'll let you in on a little surprise: Who says that yourself is the real you? Maybe the real you is not a subject, not an object, but a verb? Maybe the real you is to be found not in who you are but in those things you need to do?
Parshah
Va’era in a Nutshell
G-d promises to redeem the Israelites from their oppression. Moses and Aaron repeatedly demand of Pharaoh to let the nation leave. The Egyptians experience the first seven plagues: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils and hail.
G-d promises to redeem the Israelites from their oppression. Moses and Aaron repeatedly demand of Pharaoh to let the nation leave. The Egyptians experience the first seven plagues: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils and hail.
My First Yizkor
For the first 33 years of my life, I never probed the reason why non-mourners leave the room. I was happy to be legally expelled from the synagogue and catch a schmooze with a fellow yizkor-evacuee...
For the first 33 years of my life, I never probed the reason why non-mourners leave the room. I was happy to be legally expelled from the synagogue and catch a schmooze with a fellow yizkor-evacuee...
Living
Vegetable Soup
There's nothing like a hot nourishing bowl of soup to soothe the mind -- and the ego...
There's nothing like a hot nourishing bowl of soup to soothe the mind -- and the ego...
Story
The Confused Camel
Why do I have this hump perched on my back? These weird long eye-lashes? These awkwardly-shaped feet?
Why do I have this hump perched on my back? These weird long eye-lashes? These awkwardly-shaped feet?
Baby Basket Gridlock on the Nile
Senior Weather/Catastrophe Correspondent Jono gives us a meteorological look at the ten plagues.
Senior Weather/Catastrophe Correspondent Jono gives us a meteorological look at the ten plagues.
Do not be wicked in your own eyes
— Ethics of the Fathers 2:13
Print Magazine
How to unmask a blessing in disguise:
Stare it in the face and say, “I know you are not just a lousy day or bad luck. I know you are a good friend—even if for the life of me I cannot determine how. I know there is only one Source of All Things, and nothing can convince me that evil descends from Above. Evil descends fr...
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