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Out Of The Loop: Breaking G-d’s Rules
On Rosh Hashana we beg G-d to rise from His throne of Judgment and sit on His throne of Mercy.What’s up with that?Didn’t Hashem make rules? Didn’t he tell us what will happen if we don’t follow the rules? How do we have the Chutzpa to stand before...
Dateline: 2010-08-26 5:31pm -07:00T (698 words)
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Out Of The Loop: Treasure
IGrowth does not have to be upwards or outwards. The Torah in Parshas Ki Seitze teaches us that the most important growth is often directed inwards.Back in the days of scales and weights a grocer had the opportunity to cheat his (or her) customers with in...
Dateline: 2010-08-24 4:20pm -07:00T (1005 words)
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Out Of The Loop: The Grave Sitter
In Parshas Ki Seitzei the Torah tells us the difficult story of the ‘Ben Sorer Umoreh’, the wayward son. This rare boy misbehaved to the point that we have given up hope on him. We assume that he will grow up to be a bandit and a murderer. The Torah t...
Dateline: 2010-08-19 7:20am -07:00T (1303 words)
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Out Of The Loop: Elul!!
Five thousand seven hundred and seventy one years ago, G-d founded a corporation. He organized a board of directors, a mission statement, and a corporate framework. He analyzed a list of possible employees and placed each person in their most appropriate ...
Dateline: 2010-08-10 3:12pm -07:00T (912 words)
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Out Of The Loop: Baring Our Soles
There was an older man in my shul growing up. Once, when I was about fourteen, I was in a different city and ran into a cousin of this particular man. “I assume”, the cousin told me “that nothing will come of him”. I answered what I answered by th...
Dateline: 2010-07-30 12:50pm -07:00T (714 words)
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Out Of The Loop: Mourning the Kohanim - Thoughts on Kinah 10
If the Bais Hamikdash was the place that we could always depend upon to be G-dly and holy, then the Kohanim were the people whom we could always depend upon to be our steadfast role models in the service of Hashem. The Kinah of Aicha Yashva departs from t...
Dateline: 2010-07-19 12:05pm -07:00T (650 words)
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Out Of The Loop: Is There Another Torah?!
Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg was famous for being in jail. He was the last of the Tosafists and a respected leader of his generation. He was incarcerated for trying to make Aliyah and avoid Servi Camerae under Rudolph I in 1286.If it wasn’t for the Maharam ...
Dateline: 2010-07-18 1:20am -07:00T (1053 words)
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Out Of The Loop: Korban Credits
This week Rabbi Schwartz wrote a beautiful article about Eretz Yisroel. It wasn’t the new and beautiful concepts he mentioned that made it special, it was the fact that he is actually moving to Eretz Yisrael next week.Similarly, when the Benos Tzlafchad...
Dateline: 2010-07-02 12:06pm -07:00T (435 words)
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