Category: 5787
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YK 5787: Maximum Responsibility, Maximum Hope
Last week, just hours before Rosh Hashanah began in Israel, I received a frantic phone call from one of our children studying there in yeshiva this year. Hoping to save a bit of money, he had…
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RH2 5787: Atonement without Guilt
The comedian Emo Philips, once voted the author of the funniest religious joke of all time, shared the following joke which exposes an ironic facet of this season of repentance. For the record, this is not…
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RH1 5787: Just as I was Rewarded for Interpreting, So I am Rewarded for Refraining
Shimon HaAmsuni, a relatively obscure figure mentioned in the Talmud, is one of my Jewish heroes and I think that he should be your hero too. In the generations before Rabbi Akiva, Shimon HaAmsuni promulgated a…
