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Moshe's Red Heifer
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The commandments of the Torah are divided into the three general categories of Eidos, Chukim and Mishpatim - testimonies, decrees and laws...
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Parsha
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Why is There Death in the World?
by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
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In this audio meditation, Rabbi Ginsburgh probes the secrets of the red heifer, whose ashes purified people who had come into contact with death...
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Gentleness
by Simon Jacobson
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Dear Rabbi, I have a close friend whom I truly love. He has many beautiful qualities and virtues. Yet, at the same time he has certain blind spots...
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Magazine
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The Mystery of Death
by Yosef Y. Jacobson
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Till my father died, on May 29, 2005, I never understood the real meaning of loss. Sure, I wrote about it, I lectured on the subject...
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Diseases of Afflfluence
by Prof. Yirmiyahu Branover
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The World Health Organization reports that over the next twenty years, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, tetanus and malaria will account...
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Shabbat in a Gas Station
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Almost forty years ago, Rabbi Chaim Drizin, emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in San Francisco, received a call from a Reform temple in Sacramento...
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The 17th of tammuz - Customs and Laws
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The 17th day in the Jewish month of Tammuz, Jews the world over fast and lament to commemorate the many calamities that have befallen our people on...
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Holidays
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Tisha B'Av - Customs and Laws
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Tisha B'Av - The "ninth day" in the Jewish month of Av, which starts at sundown on the eighth day and concludes at sundown on the ninth day of Av...
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The Battle for the Kotel
by Rabbi Simon Jacobson
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In those years, the area in front of the Kotel did not look like it does today. Only a narrow alley separated the Kotel and the Arab houses on its...
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The Purpose of Exile - Tisha B'Av
by Yosef HaLevi Loebenstein
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The ultimate purpose of the present day exile, which began after the destruction of the Beis HaMikdosh on the ninth of Av, is that it allows Jews...
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