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(print) When the Loser is a Winner The Talmud teaches that King Solomon wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes after he saw prophetically that his kingdom and the Temple that he worked so hard to build would be destroyed. Imagine what a devastating realization that must have been to know that what you invested your entire life will be destroyed. We can understand why he bemoaned, ...

(print) Recently, a report was issued reviewing some of the best practices and mistakes that emanated from last summer...

(print) To Teach or to Preach? The meaning of true education What is a true educational experience? The Hebrew word for education...

(print) There is no more tragic figure in the entire Torah than Moshe Rabbeinu (our ultimate teacher). And there is no part of the story of his life in the Torah that is more confounding and more mysterious than the story, in this week...

(print) Beating Jealousy Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. --Havelock Ellis In this week...

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(print) From His-tory to Her-story Is G-d male or female? One day my son Ananiel and my two daughters, Leyadya and Ne'ema, burst into my study. They had obviously been fighting over something and were very upset. I could see that I was chosen to be the lucky arbitrator to resolve another case of sibling rivalry. They shouted at each other, "You go, you ask Daddy." "No, no! You go, you go." Finally Ananiel, who was age five at that time, took the challenge and said, "O.K., O.K. Daddy, isn't it true that G-d is a boy?" Ne'ema and Leyadya, ages eight and nine, had tears in their eyes. I could hear them silently pleading with me, "Please no, please no. Tell us it's not true. It's bad enough our brother is a boy. Surely, G-d is really a girl." I said to them, "G-d is not a boy and G-d is not a girl. G-d is beyond that. We may talk about...

(print) What is the greatest problem the Jewish people face today? Some would say assimilation: With thirteen million Jews estimated worldwide, what percentage of them are committed to Jewish tradition and Jewish continuity? According to the recent Pew report, after factoring out the Orthodox community, in North America alone, upwards of 70%of the remaining 4.5 million estimated Jews are or will most probably...

(print) Getting the Divine View on You How to make worlds of a difference And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the picture of the LORD shall he view ...