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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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