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Wise Fridays: Three Books of Life

R. Kruspedai said in the name of R. Yohanan: On Rosh Hashanah, three books are opened — one with the ...

Wise Fridays: The Perpetual Mercy Machine

Had the Lord been a God of stern, mechanical justice, then long ago he might have repudiated his covenant and ...

Wise Fridays: How to Desecrate Shabbat

When such acts [that desecrate Shabbat in order to save a life] are done, they are not to be done ...

Wise Fridays: Don’t Worry

“Rabbi Yehiel maintained that he had learnt from his teachers never to worry about two things–what can be corrected and ...

Wise Fridays: Do Not Stand Idly By

If you hear informers plotting to harm someone, you’re obligated to inform the intended victim. If you can somehow stop ...

Wise Fridays: Seek and Ye Shall Find

“But if you search there for the Lord your God, you will find Him, if only you seek Him with ...

Wise Fridays: What You Have a Right To

“You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.” —Rose Schneiderman Find more Wise Fridays ...

Wise Fridays: Just Four Paragraphs a Day

“If a man learns two paragraphs of the law in the morning and two in the evening and is engaged ...

Wise Fridays: Don’t Wait for the Subpoena

“From where do we learn that if you are in a position to offer testimony on someone’s behalf, you are ...

Wise Fridays: Albert Einstein, God, and Atheism

I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of ...

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