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A Simple Jew: Nonexistent Free Time
I have been working diligently on my new project over the past two weeks since the time of my last posting. Even though I am waking up an hour and half before going to work each morning, I have found that I still don’t as much time as I would like to. I...
Dateline: 2009-10-22 5:30am PT (179 words)
 
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A Simple Jew: The New Tactics Of My "Holy" Yetzer Hara
My yetzer hara let me enjoy a few days of unbridled enthusiasm and energy as I started my new project before he unleashed his latest campaign against me. Understanding that I usually see him coming a mile away, this time he decided to approach me with an ...
Dateline: 2009-10-06 5:45am PT (222 words)
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A Simple Jew: Sitting In The Plate
Excerpt from Opening the Tanya:It is told of the Saba Kadisha of Radoshitz that in his youth before he became rebbe, he was terribly poor and often had nothing to eat. One year, after he had eaten nothing from Yom Kippur to the day before Sukkos, his wife...
Dateline: 2009-10-06 4:30am PT (152 words)
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A Simple Jew: Eizer L'Shabbos - Sukkos Campaign
Secure online donations may be sent via the Eizer L'Shabbos website here....
Dateline: 2009-10-01 4:45pm PT (12 words)
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A Simple Jew: New Book Releases From Breslov Research Institute
Rebbe Nachman and the Knights of the Rosh HaShanah Table The Fiftieth Gate: Likutey Tefilot - Volume 3 ...
Dateline: 2009-10-01 9:15am PT (19 words)
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A Simple Jew: What Is Going On Behind The Scenes?
On Erev Yom Kippur, after receiving the Sudilkover Rebbe’s brocha, I began to devote the majority of my “free time” to a new project that I pray will serve as a great source of chizuk to others.The more that I work on this project, the more my ratzo...
Dateline: 2009-09-30 12:15pm PT (142 words)
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A Simple Jew: Guest Posting By Rabbi Perets Auerbach - “In the Wilderness”
(Picture by P. Gillet)“Bamidbar” (“in the wilderness”) is the name of an entire book of the Chumash (Pentateuch). The Torah was given specifically in a wilderness, away from civilization. Fields, forests, and mountains share this quality, but eac...
Dateline: 2009-09-29 8:00am PT (555 words)
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A Simple Jew: Without Understanding - Selichos
I understand very little of what I am saying with the Selichos that I recite each morning. As I am saying them, one part of me tells me that my time would be better spent if I recited the entire Sefer Tehillim that day instead. Yet, I know that saying Sel...
Dateline: 2009-09-24 5:15am PT (91 words)
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A Simple Jew: 5770 = שְׁעַת
Last night, the Sudilkover Rebbe told me that 5770 (תש"ע) will a year in which Hashem will express His rachamim (compassion) and ratzon (desire). He explained that this is hinted to in the fact that the letters that make up this year תש"ע can be rea...
Dateline: 2009-09-24 5:15am PT (68 words)
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A Simple Jew: Rabbi Itche Meyer Morgenstern: Explorations In Tanya
“I speak, however, of those who know me well...”As explained earlier, any person who believes in the holiness of the tzaddik has a connection to him and these words are meant for him. It is especially clear that one is a student of the Baal HaTanya if...
Dateline: 2009-09-23 5:00am PT (506 words)
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A Simple Jew: אתה
I have resolved that this one word, comprised of just three letters, is going to be the focus of my avodas Hashem for 5770. I have rushed over the word אתה so many times, whether it was in the siddur, machzor, Tehillim, or in the brochos that I say eac...
Dateline: 2009-09-21 7:00am PT (145 words)
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A Simple Jew: Please Help Eizer L'Shabbos Before Rosh Hashana
Eizer L'Shabbos5014 16th Avenue, Suite 319Brooklyn, NY 11204Secure online donations may be sent via the Eizer L'Shabbos website here....
Dateline: 2009-09-17 5:00pm PT (19 words)
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