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Beshalach: Jewish Women and Physical Appearance
Many of us have learned about the miracle of the manna, the Heavenly food which sustained us through our 40 years…
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What a 70-Year Woman with Pancreatic Cancer Can Teach You About Life
Most of us imagine that our life will follow a certain trajectory. We have our hopes, dreams, and aspirations…
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Who Was Tzipora, the Wife of Moshe, the Greatest of All Prophets?
Imagine what outstanding middot and refined qualities a girl would need to possess to be worthy of marrying Moshe Rabbeinu – the undisputed leader of the Jewish nation…
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Bo: The Strengths and Limits of Stubbornness
Parshat Bo features the final three of the ten plagues: locusts, darkness and the killing of the firstborn. What may be almost impossible for us to understand is Pharaohs’s consistent refusal to let the Jews go…
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Bilha or the 5th Matriarch
As children we learn that the Jewish nation stemmed from our three forefathers, Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov…
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The Rise of Chassidut
The Torah is an Eitz Chaim: a living, breathing source of truth. It is at once eternal and creative, staunchly rooted and widely open…
