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Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas: The First Native-Born U.S. Rabbi
Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas was born in New York on January 15, 1745. He was the son of Isaac Mendes Seixas and Rachel Levy,...
Sephardic customs
6th day of Tebet, 5771Kiddush and Aliya la-ToraIn most Sephardic families, children pay a special tribute to their grandparents and parents on the occasion...
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What Tragic Events We Remember On The 9th of Ab?
This coming Saturday night, August 6th and Sunday August 7th, we will commemorate Tish'a beAb, the Jewish National Day of Mourning.
Our rabbis mentioned five...
YOM HAZIKARON/YOM HAATZMAUT: the impossible (but reasonable!) transition.
Today is the 2nd day of Iyar, 5771/ 17 days of Omer (2 weeks, 3 days)This coming Sunday night we will commemorate Yom...
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MOSHE'S SUPPLICATION AND GOD'S RESPONSE
Moshe Rabbenu tells us, in the first person, that he begged HaShem to allow him to enter the land of...
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POST 9 AB: The delicate balance between mourning and celebration
After the destruction of the Second Temple, year 68 of the common era, a new and more difficult situation started for the people of...
SHOFETIM and PARENTING: The Game of Teshuba
By Rabbanit Coty Bittón
שופטים ושוטרים תתן לך
The Hakhamim of Musar noticed a very important message in the first Pasuq of our Parasha, something related...
VAETCHANAN: The Perils Of Inherited Wealth
"When HaShem your God brings you to the land that He promised to your parents Abraham, Isaac and Jacob … you will inherit lands...
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We continue to analyze the Sixth Commandment and its application in complex medical situations. Yesterday we explained that the Talmud discusses and allows under...
The desired effect of praying
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ESTHER 3:8, Credit, an old Jewish innovation
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Rabbi Aqiba, the fox, and the fish
Yesterday we explained that in the year 130 of the common era, 60 years after the destruction of the Second Bet haMiqdash, the terrible...
AMIDA (Berakha 09) , “Make us rich… but save us from Affluenza”
The 9th berakha of the Amida, barekhenu or barekh alenu, is the blessing in which we ask haShem to grant our livelihood (parnasa).
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Today is the 12th day of Shebat , 5771The Mitzva of honoring parents extends to other relatives. The main difference between our parents and...
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The Four Foundational Harms of a Phone-Based Childhood
In this text, I describe the four foundational harms of the phone-based childhood. These are profound changes to childhood caused by the rapid technological...
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Many times I...
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Dear Friends , these are the recordings of some of the most important Tefilot.
The audios were made, mainly, for learning the Tefila, but they...
Clint Eastwood, Shlomi and the Jewish people
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Two days ago, as Coty and I were leaving 'Mamila', near the Old City we met Shlomi, a young 'cool' Israeli taxi...
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This Friday you can feel a sense of excitement at our home. My husband told me that this Shabbat we are hosting a group...
Words and Arrows
"His tongue is like a poisoned arrow… with his mouth, he speaks cordially… but in his heart, he lays a deadly trap." Yirmiyahu 9:7
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The Shapes and Forms of Lashon HaRa
"You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people." Vayikra 19:16
Great-minded people talk about ideas. Average-minded people talk about events. Small-minded...
What Do You Do When Others Are Speaking Lashon Hara?
You are at a wedding or a reception, sitting at a table with friends — or with people you barely know — when the...
The Three Victims of Lashon HaRa
Most people, when they think about Lashon Hara, focus on one victim: the person being spoken about. And indeed, that person suffers real harm....
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Based on Prof. Yosef Ben-Shlomo z"l
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For the first time in history, a government made the annihilation of an...
The State Of Israel And The Privilege Of Unawareness (1880-1914)
אִם יִהְיֶה נִדַּחֲךָ בִּקְצֵה הַשָּׁמָיִם מִשָּׁם יְקַבֶּצְךָ ה‘ אֱלֹקיךָ וּמִשָּׁם יִקָּחֶךָ וֶהֱבִיאֲךָ ה‘ אֱלֹקיךָ אֶל-הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר-יָרְשׁוּ אֲבֹתֶיךָ וִירִשְׁתָּהּ וְהֵיטִבְךָ וְהִרְבְּךָ מֵאֲבֹתֶיךָ
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This Wednesday night May...
The Role Played By The New York Times During The Holocaust
In the past, and in a different context, I’ve written about the mistake of conceiving Judaism as a "religion", instead of understanding it as the...
YOM HASHOAH: What You Need To Remember About The Holocaust
Holocaust denial takes many forms. Sometimes it is claimed that the Holocaust never happened, and it is instead part of the "Zionist propaganda", as...
STORIES OF THE SHOAH: Nazis in Israel. April – November 1942
THE PLANS OF THE BRITISH ARMY
“Two Hundred Days of Terror” is the name given to a period in the history of the Jews who...
Counting the 49 days from the Omer offering
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