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What if You Could Read Your Obituary Today?The world's most famous set of awards are the Nobel Prizes. Presented in literature, peace, economics, medicine, and the sciences, they ...

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The Power of One. One song can spark a moment
One flower can wake the dream
One tree can start a forest
One bird can herald ...

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Полусказки. Часть 1.Когда я был маленьким, я нашел дома книжку "Полусказки", написанную Феликсом Давидовичем Кривиным. Прямо с первой страницы я не мог от нее оторваться. Сейчас, более 30 лет спустя, я до сих пор помню мудрые истории, прочитанные мною в детстве. Сегодня я хочу поделиться с вами некоторыми из них

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Vayera.As Avraham sat at the entrance of his tent hoping to greet visitors and thereby perform the Mitzvah of hospitality, three individuals appeared. Avraham ran to welcome them and ...

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Rabbis Message
Two-Way Relationship.

ImageOur relationship with God is a two-way street: from us to Him and from Him to us. Describing the service of Menorah lighting, performed by Aharon, Torah says "from the evening till morning it should burn". Evening, ("erev" in Hebrew) in Kabalistic literature symbolizes mixture, non-clarity, in other words - our material world. Morning ("boker") means clear, obvious, in other words - spiritual realm. Likewise, when Torah talks about Moshe teaching Torah to Jewish people, the sentence says: "and people lined up to hear Moshe's advise from the morning till the evening". Here the order is reversed... Bringing God's teaching to Jewish people from Heaven to Earth is described as from the "boker" till "erev", from spiritual to mundane. Our service to God (lighting Menorah for example) has opposite direction - from "erev" to "boker".

The question is: what comes first?

Midrash says: "Open for me an opening as small as eye of the needle, and I will open for you the gates of the palace, says God"

The first step has to come from us, from "erev" towards “boker”. We cannot expect God’s blessing if we don’t do anything to bring it about. But once we open this tiny crack, then, seeing our determination, we are promised that the abundance will pour. Let us witness God’s promises fulfilled speedily in our days.

 
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The Power of One. 

One song can spark a moment
One flower can wake the dream
One tree can start a forest
One bird can herald spring

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Jewish Values
What if You Could Read Your Obituary Today?

The world's most famous set of awards are the Nobel Prizes. Presented in literature, peace, economics, medicine, and the sciences, they were created a century ago by Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) a man whose fortune was amassed through the production of explosives; among other things, he invented dynamite.

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Rabbi\'s Column in Russian
Полусказки. Часть 1.

Когда я был маленьким, я нашел дома книжку "Полусказки", написанную Феликсом Давидовичем Кривиным. Прямо с первой страницы я не мог от нее оторваться. Сейчас, более 30 лет спустя, я до сих пор помню мудрые истории, прочитанные мною в детстве. Сегодня я хочу поделиться с вами некоторыми из них

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Torah
Emor.

Because of his privileged status, the Kohein had to maintain an especially high standard of purity and perfection. He was forbidden to attend the funeral of anyone but his nearest relatives, for contact with the dead defiled him and prevented him from performing his holy duties. In addition, he could not marry an un- chaste or divorced woman. Even more rigid rules applied to the Kohein Godol, who was not to attend the funeral of even his closest kin, and who could marry only a virgin. Any physical defect disqualified the Kohein from officiating in the Mishkon, although he was still entitled to his share of the sacrifices.

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