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Mystical Paths: Uman on Chanukah
Some Breslev chassidim take advantage of Chanukah to travel to Uman, to the kever of Rebbe Nachman of Breslev, zt"l. In particular, Breslev chassidista's often arrange group trips this time of year.The Breslev Tzadik of Meah Shearim, HaRav Shalom Arush, ...
Dateline: 2009-11-20 4:45am PT (90 words)
 
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Mystical Paths: Every Morning
by Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical PathsI walk away from the Kotel with the same two thoughts. When I get to the top of the steps that lead into the Old City, I look back and marvel, “How holy is this place.” Then I look up, over the Kotel and wonder, ...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 11:00pm PT (129 words)
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Mystical Paths: All The Troubles
by Rabbi Nati at Mystical PathsAll of what one hears and sees as one travels through different places, all the troubles that come one's way...a thousand pages would not be enough. And yet through all of this, all that we go through, we still "desire to f...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 3:15am PT (447 words)
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Mystical Paths: Sound the Shofar of Faith
by Reb Nati at Mystical PathsRemember well, every single day, what is being done with us in This World. For we have come to This World at this time; in the seventieth year of the seventh century of the sixth millennium. Very soon (Hashem willing) the Geu...
Dateline: 2009-11-17 1:45pm PT (437 words)
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Mystical Paths: A Quick Visit to the Marat HaMachpela
Photos by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths, all rights reserved.Before parshat Chaya Sarah (this past Shabbos), I had the opportunity to visit the Marat HaMachpela - the cave of the patriarchs and matriarchs - in Hebron. Things being relatively calm at the mo...
Dateline: 2009-11-16 7:15am PT (467 words)
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Mystical Paths: Who is a Jew?
by Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical PathsThe British Supreme Court said while it was legal that Jewish schools give preference to Jewish children's applications, admissions must depend not on family ties, but “on faith, however defined."Perhaps, in England,...
Dateline: 2009-11-15 3:45am PT (321 words)
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Mystical Paths: Rumors of Geulah
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsThe following is unsourced - the author is not directly identified and the origin of the email is unconfirmed. However, the content is such that it sounds as possibly an accurate message. Shirat Devorah was the first to rec...
Dateline: 2009-11-14 1:00pm PT (289 words)
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Mystical Paths: H1N1 in Israel
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsTo avoid hysteria and rumor, it's often very valuable to gather some factual data. Here's some factual data about H1N1 flu and Israel...Every vaccine has side effects (that may affect up to 1% of recipients) and a negative r...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 11:45pm PT (279 words)
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Mystical Paths: “You Are Fear Mongering!”
by Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical PathsOne apparently angry (or perhaps frightened) reader wrote that my brief article that discusses what happens in the Next World was trying to instill fear in readers’ heads, in order to force them to comply with the Co...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 11:45pm PT (718 words)
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Mystical Paths: Mishnah Humor?
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsThough the Mishnah is relatively concise, we should never think the sages didn't get their point across...Seder Nashim, Mishnah Nazir 1.5 - (discussing those who take a nazirite vow, and how to clarify if it's a vow for a lim...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 2:45am PT (118 words)
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Mystical Paths: The Neged Jew
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsNeged - Opposing, opposite, standing against.The Critic - The critic is a perpetual kvetch. No solutions, just nit picky complaints. However, he is fully observant (performs the mitzvot). You know the grumpy old guy in the...
Dateline: 2009-11-10 12:30am PT (565 words)
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Mystical Paths: Tefillin Is (only) A Rabbinical Mitzvah!
by Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical PathsSo went one of the comments to the article, “Spiritual or Physical.” Is this correct? Are the majority of the mitzvahs that we hold so dear today only additions to the Torah, invented by the rabbis?This is not a ne...
Dateline: 2009-11-09 4:45am PT (812 words)
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Mystical Paths: Music Review: Until When by Prodezra
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsJewish hip-hop, chassidic rap. Powerful fusion or desecration of holy tunes?Until When by chassidic musician Prodezra is a fusion of chassidic tunes with modern hip-hop music. Note I said music, not hip-hop lyrics, bling or...
Dateline: 2009-11-08 3:15pm PT (472 words)
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Mystical Paths: Anything to Avoid "That"
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsPreviously in Terror or Criminal, I wrote how US society is working hard to avoid recognition that when an Arab American stands up, shouts Allah hu Akbar, and shoots 30 people it might have something to do with his religion.P...
Dateline: 2009-11-08 10:15am PT (420 words)
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Mystical Paths: Hints and Challenges
by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths(Photo: A Winter Erev-Shabbos Sunset in the Judean Hills, Israel)Shabbos has passed and another Geulah hint / interpretation has passed. I am not devastated the specific sign has not arrived. I note the many many signs that...
Dateline: 2009-11-07 3:45pm PT (304 words)
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