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Wise Fridays: How to Read the Torah
It is not my place to teach people how to read a chapter of Tanakh because the keys to this ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: Which is the Right Path?
“Which is the right path that you should choose for yourself? One that is admirable in your eyes, and admirable ...
Wise Fridays: Do Not Despise an Egyptian
“‘Do not despise an Egyptian’…even though they threw your baby sons into the Nile. Why? Because they provided hospitality to ...
Wise Fridays: After My Death
Raba said to Rav Papa and to Rav Huna the son of Rav Joshua: When a legal decision of mine ...
Beliefs & Practices, Celebrate, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: Do-It-Yourself Inscribing
“Inscribe us in the Book of Life.†This must be understood in a spiritual sense. When a man clings to ...
Wise Fridays: Location, Location, Location
“A Torah scholar should not live in a town that doesn’t have a court of law, a charity fund, a ...
Wise Fridays: You Go First
Two men came to Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak of Ponovezh. They had both bought plots in the cemetery, and each wanted ...
Wise Fridays: The Perils of High Office
Rabbi Judah ben Tabai said: If anyone had said to me before I entered high office, “Assume that office,” my ...
Wise Fridays: Faith Without Works
Our Father rejects those who do good, trusting in their own righteousness to save them, looking to their own works ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Wise Fridays: The Most Difficult Commandment
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said that the most difficult to observe of all the 613 commandments is “Honor your father ...