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Mystical Paths: CULTURE WAR! by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths They’re out to get me. I’m an American Jew, an American Charedi Jew if you will. I sympathize with some of their goals. I see the trends, some things HAVE to change – and we don’t rely on miracles. But they spe...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:30pm -07:00T (633 words)
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Mystical Paths: The Chassidic Way to Learn from the Past via Lma’an Yishme’u The Torah urges us to remember the past and learn from it, and to learn from the older generation on how to conduct oneself. (האזינו לב,ז) The Frierdiker Rebbe (the 6th Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch) wrote: The avoda (the d...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 9:45am -07:00T (255 words)
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Mystical Paths: Everyone Has to Help by Reb Gutman Locks on Mystical Paths A Blog Moderator wrote: I have been reading your blog for a couple of years and enjoy it very much. About a year ago I became a moderator on a blog, after joining it I was saddened/shocked to find s...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 8:30pm -07:00T (865 words)
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Mystical Paths: Just a Random Meat Cleaver Attack News of a random attack with a meat cleaver on a London street. Sadly the victim just randomly was a British soldier (in uniform). The (alleged with blood dripping from his hands and bloody weapon in hand) attacker randomly mentioned something that soun...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 1:00pm -07:00T (164 words)
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Mystical Paths: Converts and the Land by Reb Gutman Locks on Mystical Paths A Blogger asked: A few months ago we discovered that a few converts are leaning towards becoming anti-Israel and anti-Zionist. They follow another convert like groupies. I am concerned and need some advi...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:00pm -07:00T (566 words)
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Mystical Paths: Opposite Women of the Wall at the Western Wall with Reb Gutman Locks on Mystical Paths Meir wrote this complaint to me. I abbreviated it since it was so very long. Hey Gutman, On Rosh Chodesh I pray at sunrise at the Kotel. This week, I noticed hundreds, if not thousa...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 8:15pm -07:00T (643 words)
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Mystical Paths: Of Course I’m Right, and So Am I by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths I few moments ago I followed a Jewish blogger’s “link dump” (list of interesting articles or links) to a Jewish religious blog I had not read before. The article was ok, about issues of appropriately modest women’s ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:15pm -07:00T (271 words)
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Mystical Paths: Hasidic Rebels by Baruch Sternman, republished with permission. Night after night the pauper Eizik of Cracow dreams of a treasure waiting for him underneath a bridge in far-away Prague. So begins the famous Hasidic tale attributed to Reb Simcha Bunim of Pshiskhe and re...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:00pm -07:00T (1036 words)
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Mystical Paths: Eye to the Infinite - Four levels of Perception We are pleased to offer Eye to the Infinite, a Torah Guide to Jewish Meditations for Divine Awareness, in a weekly serialized form. Eye to the Infinite – A Torah Guide to Jewish Meditations to Increase Divine Awareness. Copyright © 2013 by Aharon Ru...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 5:45am -07:00T (2034 words)
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Mystical Paths: A Light Unto the Nations by Reb Gutman Locks @ Mystical Paths Jews have been given a double portion. First of all, we are to be a nation of priests. This means that we should live our lives as if we were priests who served in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Obviously,...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 6:45pm -07:00T (486 words)
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Mystical Paths: A Crown of Glory by Reb Gutman Locks @ Mystical Paths I was explaining to my Shabbos guests that the Torah does not come to give us a burden, but to take a burden away. Mitzvahs should be joyful and elevating, and not merely obligations that are difficult to ful...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 7:15pm -07:00T (350 words)
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Mystical Paths: Helping Others via Lma’an Yishme’u One day, while walking along Eastern Parkway toward 770, an elderly man carrying two heavy suitcases approached the (Lubavticher) Rebbe and said, "Can you please help me with one of my suitcases?" The Rebbe gladly took the suitc...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 7:15pm -07:00T (243 words)
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Mystical Paths: Shavuos–Reaching the Summit by Reb Aharon Rubin, author of Eye to the Infinite, on Mystical Paths After seven weeks of ‘counting the Omer’, we arrive at the Yom Tov of Shovuos. Like the Yom Tov of Shemini Atseres that comes after seven days of Succos, this Yom Tov has, essent...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 4:15pm -07:00T (1697 words)
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Mystical Paths: We Must Learn to Reach Every Jew from the Beis Medrash by Rabbi Mordechai Lipskier Uzbekistan 1944 My grandfather, Rabbi Yisroel Noach Belinitzky, was one of many who fled to Samarkand, Uzbekistan to escape the horrors of the holocaust. At a Lubavitch Youth Organization convention in ...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 8:00pm -07:00T (547 words)
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Mystical Paths: Losing It for Torah We received a Holy Alert, to send to ALL RELIGIOUS JEWS AROUND THE WORLD. It’s an emergency… all mitzvot have failed, we have all been corrupted. Not to worry, though yes worry, be afraid because terrible things are happening. However, the author h...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 2:00pm -07:00T (1341 words)
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