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Is Galut So Bad?

Bittersweet Exile – A Reflection on Galut Many years ago, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat visited Highland Park, and described it as an example of

Partners

When Jacob was a very old man and knew he was going to die, he called all his sons to come together. Everyone gathered around

Trading Passion for Compassion

Throughout his odyssey in the strange and perilous world of Egypt, Yosef displayed extraordinary emotional resilience. Merely surviving the ordeal of being sold multiple times

Dove’s Wings

The Mishna Berura (28:9) notes that men should wrap their tefillin to appear like a dove’s wings. He explains that the intention is to commemorate

Vayigash: To Draw Close

In the early days, before the Baal Shem Tov haKadosh had publicly revealed his identity to others, he spent time traveling the countryside meeting and

The Lesson of the Sticks

Parshat Vayigash This week’s haftarah from sefer Yechezkel marks the closing of the Geula section of the book—a section that includes chapters 36 and 37.

 Vayigash

The ruler of Egypt keeps asking these strange men, “How is your father?” And they share, again and again. And then in Vayigash things take

Honoring the Wishes of the Deceased

מצווה לקיים דברי המת: Bava Batra 149b One Shabbat afternoon, Mr. Cohen, who was perfectly healthy and sipping tea at the time, turned to his

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