Monthly Archive: August 2010

Aug
20

Inspired by Social Media

TweetShare via email“See – I have placed before you today life and good, and death and evil…and you will choose life so you will live.” Deut 30:15,19 Even if you made bad choices yesterday, you still get to choose life TODAY. http://torah.org/learning/kolhakollel/5765/netzavim.html The above is the most recent in a series of brief daily messages …

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Aug
13

Smelly Justice

TweetShare via emailIn this week’s Torah reading, Parshas Shoftim in Deuteronomy, Israel is commanded to have judges and officers, those who maintain both justice and order. A judge in particular is required to be entirely unbiased, and not to accept ‘Shochad’, usually translated as bribery. The Torah warns us that “bribery blinds the eyes of …

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Aug
06

“I’m Your Father. I’m Still Here.”

TweetShare via email“You are children of G-d, your Master. You should not cut yourselves nor make a baldness between your eyes for the dead” (Deut. 14:1, Portion of Re’eh). No doubt that knowing we are children of G-d, that we can relate to Him as a child relates to a father, is fundamental to our …

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