ב"ה
Shlach 5763 -June 27, 2003
Sending
If we stop and think about what we’re doing at any given point in our lives, we’ll discover that, as often as not, we’re doing something for someone else, or sending someone else to do something for ourselves.
If we stop and think about what we’re doing at any given point in our lives, we’ll discover that, as often as not, we’re doing something for someone else, or sending someone else to do something for ourselves.
Parshah
Shelach in a Nutshell
The twelve spies return with giant fruit, frightening the Jewish people, who complain and receive a severe punishment. Laws of challah and tzitzit. A man publically desecrates Shabbat, and is put to death.
The twelve spies return with giant fruit, frightening the Jewish people, who complain and receive a severe punishment. Laws of challah and tzitzit. A man publically desecrates Shabbat, and is put to death.
Relationships
How Can I Ever Forgive Him?
If we would know what this thing called marriage truly is, not a single one of us would ever venture it
If we would know what this thing called marriage truly is, not a single one of us would ever venture it
Living
The Crumb, the Flyer, and My Son's Computer Game
I pointed to a short-cut. "Why don't you steer the car that way?" Twisting the joystick, he showed me: "See, it doesn't let me go off track"
I pointed to a short-cut. "Why don't you steer the car that way?" Twisting the joystick, he showed me: "See, it doesn't let me go off track"
Parenting
Upward Parenting
Some children focus on all the good they received from their parents. Others focus on what they feel they should have received
Some children focus on all the good they received from their parents. Others focus on what they feel they should have received
Story
After the Fast
"It seems," the horses surmised, "that we are not men after all, but angels, who do not partake of earthly food at all"
"It seems," the horses surmised, "that we are not men after all, but angels, who do not partake of earthly food at all"
One whose wisdom is greater than his deeds, what is he comparable to? To a tree with many branches and few roots; comes a storm and uproots it, and turns it on its face... But one whose deeds are greater than his wisdom, to what is he compared? To a tree with many roots and few branches, whom all the storms in the world cannot budge from its place.
— Ethics of the Fathers 3:17
Print Magazine
It’s G-d’s world. Everything He gives is good, the sweetest good.
But it is often a good far too great for us to understand. We imagine it is not good, because that’s the only way to make sense of it with our small minds.
Yet the truth is, He gives us all the good we can handle. If we could take more, He would g...
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