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    Matot

    How Vows Are Like Idol-Worship

    The beginning of this week's Torah portion of Matot focuses on certain important details pertaining to the laws of vows and oaths. A Torah-mandated oath is one by which one forbids himself to engage in one or more otherwise permitted activities. This leads us to ask a very fundamental question...

    Tammuz 23 5782
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    The Marital Relationship

    Stories from the Mikveh

    Translated by Hillel Fendel

    Two small stories on how keeping the family purity Halachos come with devotion.

    Tevat 10 5782
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    Israel and Greece

    Who are the Hellenists of Today?

    The holiday of Hanuka commemorates both military and spiritual victories, of a national nature, during the Second Temple period. On the one hand, the one-day supply of oil in the Holy Temple miraculously lasted for eight days. On the other hand, the greatly outnumbered Jews also won incredible military victories over their Greek enemies, thus preserving the State of Judea for over 200 years. The war was fought also against the Hellenists [Greek sympathizers, mostly Jews], who sought to secularize the Jewish Nation. Do the Hellenists of then have a parallel today?

    Kislev 22 5782
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    Simple, Relaxed Faith – or Stormy, Questioning Faith?

    Three rabbis contemplate emuna [faith] and how it intersects and works alongside knowledge and intellect.

    Kislev 1 5782
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    Ein Ayah

    Two Styles of Building

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 10:17

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 10:17

    Nissan 7 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    Ready in All Ways to “Host” Hashem

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 10:8

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 10:8

    Adar 29 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    Too Great to Start the Necessary Exile

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:147

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:147

    Adar 21 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    Self-rebuke by Comparing Oneself with the Forefathers

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:132-133

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:132-133

    Adar 13 5780
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    P'ninat Mishpat

    Return of “Borrowed” Pre-School Items 1

    Adar 13 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    Blood of Life and Destruction

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:130-131

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:130-131

    Adar 7 5780
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    P'ninat Mishpat

    Disagreements Between a Supplier and a Store

    Adar 7 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    Too High to be Connected to People on the Ground

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:128-129

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:128-129

    Shvat 29 5780
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    P'ninat Mishpat

    Renovations that Did Not Finish On Time

    Shvat 29 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    The Hatred of Those Who Did Not Get a Potential Gift

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:121

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:121

    Shvat 22 5780
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    P'ninat Mishpat

    Bad Advice Causing Loss of Mortgage Rights – part II

    Shvat 22 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    Too High to be Connected to People on the Ground

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:120

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:120

    Shvat 15 5780
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    P'ninat Mishpat

    Bad Advice Causing Loss of Mortgage Rights – part I

    Shvat 15 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    The Least Individualistic Individual

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:117-118

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:117-118

    Shvat 8 5780
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    P'ninat Mishpat

    Expanding One’s Claims

    Shvat 8 5780
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    Ein Ayah

    Can Any Man Possess the Torah?

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:113-115

    condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:113-115

    Shvat 1 5780
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