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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 ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Wise Fridays: Laziness and Satisfaction
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.–Anne Frank Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: To Say or Not to Say
Just as you are commanded to say something that will be obeyed, you are commanded not to say anything when ...
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: Who Built This House?
“Unless God builds a house its builders labor in vain on it.” —Psalms 127:1 Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on ...
Wise Fridays: We Are a Part of Torah
To deny people’s full humanity is to remove them from divinity, and if we lessen the divine image of anyone, ...