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Wise Fridays: Rewarding Activities
“The following are the activities for which a person is rewarded in this world, and again in the World-to-Come: honoring ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: Self Improvement
If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow? –Rabbi Nahman ...
Wise Fridays: The Call of the Cow
A medicine man from the Blood Indian Reservation, Brother Rufus Goodstriker…picked up the shofar and looked it over. “Ram’s hom,” ...
Wise Fridays: Sins and Lizards
The rabbis told this story: In a certain place there was a lizard which used to injure people. They came ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: People Are Stingy
People are stingy with money, but we’re also stingy with kavod, with honor. We’re even stingy with ourselves. We’re supposed ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: The Role of Freedom
“It is precisely because of the central role of freedom in the value system of the Bible that the liberation ...
Wise Fridays: Grabbing at the World
A baby enters the world with hands clenched, as if to say, “The world is mine; I shall grab it.” ...
Wise Fridays: Where’s the Bread?
“Where there is no bread, there is no Torah.” —Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers 3:17 Find more Wise Fridays ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Friday: Understanding Racism
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum hatred for a minimum reason.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel Find more ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Wise Fridays: Young Leadership
The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership. –John F. Kennedy ...