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| WOMEN SHARE |
| The spiritual nature of the holy day of Shabbat is one that has a transcendental quality.
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| LESSONS IN LIVING LIFE |
| Once he was in the middle of a chat with G‑d Himself when some travelers appeared in the distance. He excused himself and ran off to invite in the guests!
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| Where are your eyes focused? On the ground, or on your target?
By Alan Veingrad | |
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| “I realized that the moment I put the question out, there I was—provoking someone to not tell me the truth . . .”
By Elana Mizrahi | |
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| What a shame and waste that a twenty-four-hour period can pass, and we might feel that during our day we did “nothing”!
By Sara Esther Crispe | |
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| Maybe the whole problem with capitalism is the script we're writing for it. Maybe if we rewrote that script, the same forces that are messing up the world would be fixing it instead...
By Tzvi Freeman | |
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| PARSHAH IN A NUTSHELL |
| A bit about death, a lot about marriage and the art of storytelling. Also: four hundred shekels, ten camels, two bracelets and a ring. A third wife and six more sons.
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| SARAH PASSES AWAY AND ABRAHAM MOURNS HER... |
| Are we as successful at living fully in the present?
By Chana Weisberg | |
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| A Jewish funeral is distinguished by its simplicity, humility and solemnity. It emphasizes the spiritual and sublime over the physical and material.
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| Abraham’s response to the loss of his wife, Sarah, teaches us how to properly honor those who have passed on.
By Mendel Kaplan | |
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| The reason behind the Jewish custom of burying a person almost immediately after his or her passing.
By Aron Moss | |
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| You don’t have to have a degree in psychology or grief therapy to be able to assist those in crisis. Just be there for them.
By Yaakov Lieder | |
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| Yesterday, shiva over, the rabbi had said, “It’s time for you to go out.” Time was so unforgiving; Becky was not ready.
By Linda Goldberg | |
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| One way or another, neither Abraham nor Sarah had an easy life. Theirs were lives of trial, in which their faith was tested at many points.
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | |
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| HE BURIES HER IN HEBRON... |
| What did Abraham know about that cave that he was willing to pay 400 shekels for it?
By Menachem Posner | |
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| Hebron, one of the four holy cities in Israel, lies at the center of Biblical Judea. Learn more about “The City of the Patriarchs.”
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| “Why not send down a Jew? If he dies, none of us would care, and if not, you will have your precious saber back.”
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| How much land does "400 silver shekels" buy?
By Yanki Tauber | |
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| If you ended up on the upper story, consider yourself lucky. If you find yourself on the lower level, consider yourself luckier.
By Yanki Tauber | |
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| ...AND SENDS ELIEZER TO FIND A WIFE FOR HIS SON |
| To my surprise, his name is not mentioned even once in the Torah portion!
By Eliezer Zalmanov | |
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| The mission of the G‑dly soul is to channel and focus the animal soul’s emotions toward its—the G‑dly soul’s— interest, the service of G‑d.
By Baruch S. Davidson | |
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| Surrounded by a group of able-bodied men, Eliezer did not appear as a helpless, weary chap begging for a drink.
By Esther Vilenkin | |
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| BIRTHDAY OF RABBI SHOLOM DOVBER OF LUBAVITCH |
| He asked, “Rebbe, what is a chassid?” Replied the rebbe: “A Chassid is a lamplighter.”
Told by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch | |
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| Stories and teachings of the Rebbe Rashab, the “Maimonides of Chassidism” (1860–1920).
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| This tune helps the soul free itself from the confines of the body, preparing it, as it were, to absorb the G‑dliness in Torah.
By Avraham Fried | |
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