Category: Chumash Shemot

(print version) Only a few short months had passed since his untimely death, but already, Imanuel Moreno had become a legend. A Lieutenant-Colonel and a commander in the elite Sayeret Matkal Commando unit, Imanuel was killed on a Friday night in August 2006 in heavy fighting near the Baalbeck area in Lebanon. That Saturday night, at two o clock in the morning, thousands of people came to Mount Herzl, Israel...

(print option)Successful People are UnaccomplishedSix days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy, a day of solemn rest to the Lord....

(print version) There are sounds that you hear and things that you see that will always make you stop whatever you are doing. People yelling, the sound of an ambulance racing down a Jerusalem street, or even the backfire of a car, if you...

(print version) Shabbat: Rest Assured Keep the Shabbat for it is holy unto you..... because in six days G-d made heaven and earth: and on the seventh day He abstained from work and rested....

(print version) There is an amazing story told about Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was on a speaking tour across India, part of his non-violent struggle for independence from the British. At that time, the only affordable mode of travel across the country was by rail. When there were no whites waiting for a train, the British rail company, in an effort to save the expense and time of actually stopping at the station, would have the trains slow down long enough for passengers to run along-side and hop on. (This racist policy was part of what Gandhi was struggling against...) One day, Gandhi was running to get on a train, and as he jumped up, his shoe slipped off his foot. Though he tried to grab it, he ended up watching helplessly as it fell to the tracks. Quickly, he grabbed the other one off his foot and threw it back down the tracks toward the first rapidly disappearing shoe. People who saw this thought...

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(print version) The Simple Art of Ecstasy How to See Divine Presence Here and Now ...

  (print version) There are some lessons you learn the hard way, and they are never forgotten. In Infantry Officer...

(print version) The Divine Wants You to be Happy When Rules Become Delicious Recipes for Your Soul...

(print version) Sunday mornings for me, even twenty years later, still have a tinge of sadness. While Westerners most often view Sunday morning as the chance to sleep late, relax with the family, and catch up on the news, for most Israeli soldiers it is the most depressing moment of the week. Every Sunday morning, all over the country, soldiers begin their long, weary trek back to their bases and the duties that await them. The weekend is over, and with it the freedom to be master of one...