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Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Fundamental Beliefs of Judaism - The Thirteen Foundations of Maimonides

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About 800 years ago, Rabbi Moses Maimonides saw the need for a formal compilation of the most fundamental Jewish beliefs. The beliefs enum...
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Friday, June 8, 2012

Behaaloscha - Humility and Torah

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At the end of  Parshas Behaaloscha  (Numbers 12) we read of the incident where Miriam and Aaron, the elder siblings of Moses, speak critica...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

I Want YOU to Love your Fellow Jew!

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I made this into a poster for my classroom several years ago:
Friday, June 1, 2012

Nasso - "One Who Sees a Sotah in her Disgrace..."

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In Parshas Nasso we read of the laws of the sotah - the suspected adulteress - which is followed immediately by the laws of the nazir - ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Evil of Unpleasant Realities - Why "Liberal" Jews are Turning Against Israel

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I recently came across an article by a Rabbi Brian Walt, titled " Affirming a Judaism and Jewish identity without Zionism ." Rabb...
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Bamidbar - Everything Has Its Place

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In Parshas Bamidbar we read of how God chose the tribe of Levi to be His, to a degree above and beyond the rest of the Jewish people. Orig...
Monday, May 21, 2012

What is the Torah?

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On the festival of Shavuos we celebrate the event of Matan Torah  - the Giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. This was the foundational event o...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Explaining the Torah in Seventy "Languages"

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Just finished studying with my Torah Mate . We recently began studying Chumash Devarim with Rashi and Gur Aryeh (the Maharal's super-...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Emuna Peshuta - The Misuse of "Faith"

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I frequently encounter people who claim that their basis for belief in God is "faith" or, if they are religious Jews, " emun...
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Mitzva #1 – Belief in God

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Maimonides and most other authorities consider the obligation to believe in God to be one of the six hundred and thirteen  mitzvos , and un...