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Wise Fridays: God’s Speech

What is taken as God’s speech is really always man’s hearing…that God is not the strategist of our particularities or ...

Wise Fridays: Respecting the Aged

“Show respect to an old man who has forgotten his learning through no fault of his own, for we have ...

Wise Fridays: The Value of Independence

Without moral and intellectual independence, there can be no national independence. —David Ben Gurion Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on ...

Wise Fridays: Bread and Torah

“Where there is no food there is no Torah; and where there is no Torah there is no food.” — ...

Wise Fridays: Money is Fire

“Money is fire. Like fire it can destroy and annihilate, or illuminate and warm, depending on how it is used.” ...

Wise Fridays: Fraudulent Beggars

“The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one ...

Wise Fridays: Who Is A Jew?

“Whoever repudiates idolatry is called a Jew.” —Babylonian Talmud Megillah 13a Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.

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 ...

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: 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,” ...

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