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| Chassid in Wonderland
By Naftali Silberberg
Parallel universes, supernatural phenomena, and a world where good always prevails. Is this Grimm's fairy tales, or a chassidic text? | |
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| Journeys
By Chana Weisberg
I did not want to be myself. I did not want to become independent. I wanted to remain enfolded in your warmth, listening to the comforting rhythmic beating of your heart... | |
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| Tevye's Query
By Yaakov Brawer
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| The Development
By Mattis Kantor
Two cows, they were, sharing a paddock on the same farm... | |
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| A Path and a Choice
By Yanki Tauber
Follow your bliss? If it's going to make other people like you, that's the thing to do? Not the sort of advice you'd expect from a Talmudical sage... | |
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| The Reinvention of Man
By Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz)
Two thousand years after all the sages of Israel, both the pessimists and the optimists, agreed that man was a failed experiment, the Rebbe re-opened the question... | |
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| Kabbalah of Love
By Shifra Hendrie
We all yearn for the intimate touch of another soul. So why are we forever repelling love with our anger and criticism? | |
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| The Meaning of Making Money
By Tzvi Freeman
If life is full of meaning, why am I spending it hustling other people for their money? | |
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| Man as Verb
The truth about the Tanya
By Tzvi Freeman
I'll let you in on a little surprise: Who says that yourself is the real you? Maybe the real you is not a subject, not an object, but a verb? Maybe the real you is to be found not in who you are but in those things you need to do? | |
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| The Difficult Case of the Private I
By Tzvi Freeman
My guru says I must first surrender my ego in order to proceed with his five day, ten-step path to total enlightenment. Personally, I find my ego quite useful, even neccessary. What do you think? Are egos really as bad as they are made out to be? | |
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| Fallen Sparks
By Tzvi Freeman
The very core of reality is G-d's shattered dream, waiting for us to pick up the pieces | |
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| Can People Change?
creating something from nothing
By Shifra Hendrie
G-d creates from "Nothing" because nothingness, ayin, actually means absolute, infinite possibility. And as a beings created in the image of G-d, we, too, can create "something from nothing" | |
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| Invisible Fences
The Tiger, the Elephant, and the Kabbalah of Transformation
By Shifra Hendrie
Are you you smart, stupid, graceful, clumsy, bold, wimpy, articulate, shy? Whatever your answers, they will limit and define you as certainly as if they were a cage made out of concrete and steel | |
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| A Jewish Psychology of Motivation
By Chana Silberstein
Doing good without believing in reward is the flip side of doing good only for reward: in the one case, good is constrained to the metaphysical; in the other, it is limited to a crass physical expression... Both reflect a distortion of truth | |
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| What Makes Your Soul Tick?
By Yosef Marcus
Ever wondered where that instant inspiration comes from? Where does that spontaneous urge of faith stem from? What truly is the essence of our soul? | |
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| Be a Star in His-Story
By David Aaron
To serve or not to serve is not the question, and it is not the choice. Every character serves the
author. The choice is only about how you serve--directly, playing the good guy, or indirectly, playing the villain | |
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| What is Kabbalah?
A basic introduction to the Kabbalah
By DovBer Pinson
It is important to realize that the Kabbalah is more about losing ourselves than about finding, becoming more other-centered and less ego-centered. The literal translation of the word Kabbalah is 'that which is received.' | |
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| Small Town Jewry
By Israel Rubin
Rabbi Yosi ben Kisma was offered a dream budget--enough money to build a school, a yeshiva, a kollel and an entire Torah community to his liking. So why would he turn down the opportunity? | |
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| The Radical in Me
By Mendy Herson
For the record, I should state that I value moderation. I try to practice it and I teach it to my kids. So when the reporter blurted out, "You're pretty radical!" I took that as a pejorative comment... | |
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| Unity vs. Diversity - the Struggle
By Mendy Herson
I often speak of the Torah as a unifying document with an all-encompassing and harmonizing perspective on reality. There seems much that contradicts this in the Torah. So does the Torah indeed advocate separateness as a value? | |
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