Matot 5768 - July 25, 2008 |
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When Do We Stop Believing?
By Sara Hecht
She's only seven years old, and the doctors say she has lost her battle with cystic fibrosis, that she will live only a few more weeks. But for some reason, nobody has stopped praying... |
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Help! I Don't Want to Turn Into My Father!
By Tzvi Freeman
Sure, there are all those events that happened, the weather, geography, DNA. But we are the ones to string them together with meaning and direction. There is no story to life, until we tell it... |
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Back on Track
By Bronya Shaffer
They'd married less than a year ago, following seven months of story-book courtship. It was a match made in Heaven. Hell, I heard him mutter... |
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The $499 Dilemma
By Aron Moss
His cousin has one, his friends have it, but we have no intention of buying him one. How will I explain it to him? |
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Tammuz – Time for Transformation
By Yitzchak Ginsburgh
Without a doubt, we have experienced tremendous hardship and pain throughout our history—more so perhaps than other nations. But Jewish history is anything but tragic... |
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The Unintentional Intentional Sin
By Naftali Silberberg
A sin can only be rectified if the guilty person recognizes his guilt. We suffer most from our "unknown" mistakes. |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Fathers, daughters and husbands; vengeance and war spoils; the east and west banks of the Jordan -- plus what it all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today |
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Twelve Sticks
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The stick, it can be said, is a piece of tree that has paid the price of leaving home. The stick, it can also be said, is one who has reaped the rewards of leaving home... |
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The Moses Within
By Tali Loewenthal
The battle against Midian described in the Torah is a crucial struggle which continues in our own time... |
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Priorities and Price Tags
By Yossy Goldman
A fellow who somehow got himself locked in a department store over a holiday weekend decided to vent his frustrations by swapping price tags on the merchandise.... |
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Balancing the Spiritual and the Practical
By Tali Loewenthal
Sometimes the question is raised whether the Torah scholar is, in some sense, "escaping" from the real world |
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The Betrothed
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The laws governing the annulment of vows distinguishes between an arus ('betrothed") and a baal ("husband"). On a deeper level, these laws describe two modes of spiritual life |
