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“If ever there was someone to keep me at home it would be you “

“On the Road”- or “The Road less traveled?” The title of this weeks Torah portion, “Massei”- Journeys, can be misleading. For someone thumbing through the table of contents, eager to find an ancient...

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Enlist in the social media unit of Tzahal

Today is Rosh Chodesh Av. This means that eight days from today, we will observe Tisha B’av, the fast of the ninth day of Av. This year that annual recalling of the ancient destruction of the Temple...

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Gaza Strip or Gaza chambers?

Hamas has yet again used another “humanitarian cease fire” to demonstrate their inability to act humanely. Instead of actually doing something to alleviate the suffering of all the palestinian POW ‘s...

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Thanks Israel for shining your light into this darkened world.

This post is dedicated to the over 60 Kedoshim – holy Israeli soldiers, that lost their lives defending their people, ensuring the survival of Am Yisroel, by protecting Eretz Yisroel. This post is...

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The rainbow over the Boston Rally

Tonight begins the post Tisha B’av Shabbat traditionally know as Shabbat Nachamu, Shabbat of comfort – when we chant the sacred ancient words of the prophet Isaiah, “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people.”...

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Please like…

Please like – if you stand with President Barack Obama in his war on terror. Please like – if you sense a moment of truth here, and are willing to cheer on the President for doing the right thing, even...

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Thanks Hillary!

The full Hillary Clinton interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic is a must read….Apparently she is also very aware of the threat of Islamic terrorism….I am hopeful that her leadership will be...

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Letting go and moving on in the book of Devarim

The fifth book of Torah opens up with a sentimental Moses bidding his beloved people farewell. He is anxious about them. Like any good parent, he can’t die peacefully without knowing that they will be...

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Nice try Peter Beinart

See how quickly Hillary gets punished, thrown under the bus by her own, for the crime of daring to think for herself (and no I don’t believe it was an election ploy – her honesty on this might actually...

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Bring it on

I find it so ironic – the way we marked Rosh Chodesh, the new month of Elul today, with the celebratory prayers of Hallel, even though we are still in the month of Av. Especially, given the paradoxical...

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The secret lives of calendars.

TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 60 #2 The secret lives of calendars. PART 1: ELUL 2. Just one day ago the crisp shrill staccato of the first sounding of the Shofar, jolts the days of the month out of their...

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The curious case of the missing humanitarians

Where have all the humanitarians gone? Due to the recent cease fire in Israel there has been a severe humanitarian crisis – no, I’m not talking about the actual ones that have been happening globally...

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What’s the deal with “The king is in the field?”

TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 60 #3 An Elul Irony. Despite being the month in which we begin the slow transition to a state of spiritual inwardness, one of the main themes of the month “the king is in the...

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Goodbye my New England summer…

I choose to spend the final glorious hours of my New England summer stupidly attempting to ride my friend Mario’s monstrous 1500 cc Honda Vulcan. I’m terrified at the sheer power of this, how many...

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Kol Nidre: Annuling the Vows – Renewing the WOWs…

I remember a conversation about Yom Kippur with an elderly jew from Minsk during the year we spent there helping to revive the Jewish community in 1989. In His broken english he kept on asking me about...

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Time to get out and build a new Sukkah!

The beautiful new Sukkah overlooking the Atlantic was taken down on Sunday. The Sukkah is one of many hands on meditational Jewish rituals that utilized properly can be a spiritual power tool designed...

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Happiness – under the hood?

My house is quiet. I’ve been up since six on a Sunday morning. Coffee by the fireplace and a chance to think quietly. I started teaching a course on happiness last Wed. One thing became immediately...

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We are both Barren

This week we read about the prayers of a childless Yitzchak and Rivkah. The image of this brokenhearted couple praying tearfully, alongside one another – is both heartbreaking and heartwarming. I...

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Tank-full-ness ..or the Kabbalah of Thanksgiving

A mystical riff on thankfulness Wherever you are in the world is a divine gifting of light pouring through you into your current surroundings.I see this concept conveyed nicely in the english word...

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Eighth day celebrates the full –נס of our Jewish –נס

The post Eighth day celebrates the full – נס of our Jewish – נס appeared first on The Blogs | The Times of Israel.

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