TweetShare via email“Rejoice on Purim till you can no longer distinguish between ‘Cursed is Haman’ and ‘Blessed is Mordechai’.” – Talmud Megillah 7b. The popular contemporary work, Nesivos Shalom, by the late Rebbe (Grand Rabbi) of the Slonim Hasidic sect, Rav Shalom Barzovsky ob”m, gives a novel and poignant interpretation of this classic Talmudic directive: …
Monthly Archive: February 2010
Feb
19
Give Project Genesis $1, and it won’t cost you a penny!
TweetShare via emailI have something unusual to share with you this week. Just in time for our Purim appeal, iGive.com sent us a challenge. We’ve been members of iGive for years, since they started as “eyeGive” and provided donations in return for clicks alone. Now they help us when you “Shop for the Cause” … …
Feb
12
Clemency for Martin Grossman
TweetShare via emailI am very reluctant to get involved with an obviously parochial political matter. But I feel it is important to encourage everyone to participate in a plea for clemency for a mentally-impaired individual due to be killed by lethal injection early next week. 25 years ago, a 19-year-old man, Martin Grossman, was caught …
Feb
05
Voices You Can See
TweetShare via emailThis week, the Torah reading talks about the gathering at Mount Sinai, and receiving the Torah. And the Torah says that the people “saw” the voices, when Mount Sinai was covered with a cloud of smoke. Many commentaries speak about what this means, whether literally or figuratively. The Shearis Menachem, though, has a …
