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What Is the Purpose of the Oral Torah?
If one asked how many torot there are you would expect the answer to be one. However, we are taught by Chazal that Moshe Rabbeinu received both the written and the oral law, torah she’bichtav and torah she’be’al peh respectively, at Har Sinai beginning in Parashat Yitro. Often when we say “torah” our immediate thought
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Fulfillment vs Motherhood: Should Women Pursue Any Kind of Career?
Sometimes, we are tempted to enter a field because it is just the typical, easy route to go, even if the work is not meaningful to us. I looked around at my friends and family, so many talented young women who pursued jobs meaningful to them. Here are three working women who each chose a
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Is Eating Healthy a Mitzvah?
Healthy eating is trendy and encompasses much of the daily social media platforms. Our generation is dealing with the most access and abundance than all prior generations…
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What is a Mitzvah and How Does it Work?
To attach ourselves to Hashem’s ratzon is to reach incredibly deep and high. To use our limbs to actually execute that will is to become an agent of His agenda, and thereby achieve a connection with a Source that is otherwise unreachable. We cannot experience in this world the effects of that relationship, but in…
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What Shabbat Teaches us About Jewish Vacation
The Jewish view of time is that it is our most precious commodity. We are enjoined to maximize every moment to its fullest…
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Is Being Organized a Mitzva?
In short, the answer is no – being organized is not one of the 613 commandments. However, this does not mean that organization is unimportant…
