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Healthy self-confidence can make a big difference in our lives. In this week’s Torah portion, (Num. 13:31) a lack of self-confidence prevented the people from

Dear Shayna B., I am writing to you with a big problem. My mother has terrible taste in clothes. I don’t know how she birthed

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David Brooks, in his bestselling book, The Road to Character, draws a sharp distinction between what he calls the résumé virtues – the achievements and

Moshe Rabbeinu vs. The Malachim Shabbat 88b-89a presents a stunning interaction between Moshe Rabbeinu and the malachim, the Heavenly angels. The Gemara records (from the

Parshat B’ha’alotecha The haftarah that we read this Shabbat is a selection taken from Sefer Zecharya (Chapters 2-4) which includes the vision of the seven-branched

הוּא (שִׁמְעוֹן הַצַּדִּיק) הָיָה אוֹמֵר, עַל שְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים הָעוֹלָם עוֹמֵד, עַל הַתּוֹרָה וְעַל הָעֲבוֹדָה וְעַל גְּמִילוּת חֲסָדִים. (א:ב) Torah The second mishnah of Avot begins

The tzadik Reb Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, zy’a, was one of the most impactful leaders of the Chasidic movement. He led his talmidim along an

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