ב"ה
Emor 5769 - May 8, 2009
Living
You Are a Fish
You go about your life. Eating algae. Hanging out in your school. Running away from sharks. The usual. Your fins start to get tired, though. Your tiny little fish brain feels like it has potential for so much more.
You go about your life. Eating algae. Hanging out in your school. Running away from sharks. The usual. Your fins start to get tired, though. Your tiny little fish brain feels like it has potential for so much more.
Swine Flu: Some Random Thoughts
Cures are found, but diseases reappear with aggression; we combat them and so it goes. It's tempting to think that if we fix "it" we'll have nothing to worry about ever again. Ha! If only it was so simple.
Cures are found, but diseases reappear with aggression; we combat them and so it goes. It's tempting to think that if we fix "it" we'll have nothing to worry about ever again. Ha! If only it was so simple.
Music at the Rabbi’s Funeral
At one point during the trip, the horse suddenly changed course and took her own route, going back in the direction from where they had come.
At one point during the trip, the horse suddenly changed course and took her own route, going back in the direction from where they had come.
Discovering the CURE
Dr. Laz's unique healing formula is not available in pharmacies, but it is highly effective in uplifting the spirit of others, including at-risk youth on the periphery. The CURE in four simple words stands for: Communication, Understanding, Respect and Education.
Dr. Laz's unique healing formula is not available in pharmacies, but it is highly effective in uplifting the spirit of others, including at-risk youth on the periphery. The CURE in four simple words stands for: Communication, Understanding, Respect and Education.
Seasons
Never Too Late
When a person’s contact with death evokes in him a striving for life he would never have mustered without that experience, then the contact with death is transformed into a more intense involvement with life.
When a person’s contact with death evokes in him a striving for life he would never have mustered without that experience, then the contact with death is transformed into a more intense involvement with life.
How Things Worked Out
Some might think it odd when they hear an alcoholic in recovery say something like “Being an alcoholic is the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
Some might think it odd when they hear an alcoholic in recovery say something like “Being an alcoholic is the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
The Jewish Woman
Nowhere Else I'd Rather Be
Now, three boys later, I feel like a pie- everybody wants a piece of me. Well, I am running out of "pieces," as well as my sanity...
Now, three boys later, I feel like a pie- everybody wants a piece of me. Well, I am running out of "pieces," as well as my sanity...
Parshah
The Parshah in a Nutshell
Laws specific to the Temple priests, festivals on the Jewish calendar, the menorah and the showbread. Penalties for murder, assault and destruction, followed by an execution.
Laws specific to the Temple priests, festivals on the Jewish calendar, the menorah and the showbread. Penalties for murder, assault and destruction, followed by an execution.
Ambassadors Wanted
Generally, today, the concept of Kiddush Hashem, sanctifying the name of G-d, is observed not by dying as Jews but by living as Jews
Generally, today, the concept of Kiddush Hashem, sanctifying the name of G-d, is observed not by dying as Jews but by living as Jews
The Kohen Gene
Generation after generation of Jewish women were faithful to their husbands and their tradition. What a proud record of fidelity. Geneticists describe these results as "the highest record of paternity-certainty ever recorded"!
Generation after generation of Jewish women were faithful to their husbands and their tradition. What a proud record of fidelity. Geneticists describe these results as "the highest record of paternity-certainty ever recorded"!
The Disqualified Kohen
This week I discovered that my teacher was correct. It is indeed true that the disabled have greater merit than the rest of us . . .
This week I discovered that my teacher was correct. It is indeed true that the disabled have greater merit than the rest of us . . .
The Kohen's Purity
A Kohen may not come in contact with a human corpse. Find out why, how, the exceptions to this rule, and the areas a Kohen should avoid.
A Kohen may not come in contact with a human corpse. Find out why, how, the exceptions to this rule, and the areas a Kohen should avoid.
Grain, Growth and Goodness
We are inclined to believe that all intellectual and artistic endeavors are inherently positive. There are those who would argue that untrammeled intellectual and artistic expression is itself a fundamental good . . .
We are inclined to believe that all intellectual and artistic endeavors are inherently positive. There are those who would argue that untrammeled intellectual and artistic expression is itself a fundamental good . . .
The Morrow of the Shabbat
An historic controversy arose between the Rabbis and sectarians as to the meaning of the command: "And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbat." Although the Rabbis proved their case, why did the Torah use a word so open to misinterpretation?
An historic controversy arose between the Rabbis and sectarians as to the meaning of the command: "And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbat." Although the Rabbis proved their case, why did the Torah use a word so open to misinterpretation?
Who is wise? One who learns from every man. Who is strong? One who overpowers his inclinations. Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot. Who is honorable? One who honors his fellows.
— Ethics of the Fathers 4:1
Print Magazine
Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.
In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.
These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”
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