Sparks – by Rabbi David Aaron
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Can You Forgive G-d?
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~~ Anne Frank
This imperfect world is the perfect place for a dynamic life filled with challenge, growth and love. That...
Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality from Rav Binny Freedman
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This week...
Sparks – by Rabbi David Aaron
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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, ...
Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality from Rav Binny Freedman
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Three boys; three worlds; three families; three mothers broken; three empty chairs; forever...
Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality from Rav Binny Freedman
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Ask any Israeli soldier who ever served in the armored corps what part of his army service he hated the most, and he will answer unequivocally : ...
Sparks – by Rabbi David Aaron
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Beating Jealousy
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
--Havelock Ellis
In this week...
Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality from Rav Binny Freedman
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This week has been a difficult week. Three of our sons, Naftali, Gilad and Eyal, have been missing since last Thursday night and despite the best efforts of the Israeli army, the Police, the intelligence community, and rescue units, we seem no nearer, as of this writing, to learning their whereabouts.
The only thing that seems clear, is that they have been kidnapped by a terrorist group, and one can only imagine the circumstances under which they are be...
Sparks – by Rabbi David Aaron
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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...