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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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The Intuition that Saved my Daughter’s Life
I just knew it wasn’t right. My inner wisdom rang an alarm bell…
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Why Does a Man Need to Give His Wife a Get?
Marriage is one of the most sacred unions…
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Emerging From the Waters: Explaining the Mitzvah of Mikvah
Spirituality permeates every aspect of Jewish life, especially between a husband and wife. One of our missions in this world is to imbue the physical with the spiritual. To that end, the concepts of taharah, purity, and tumah, impurity, are spiritual concepts with physical implications. Tumah is closely related to death or loss of potential
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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…
