Why do I Feel Like This Happened Before?
Deja Vu: Guest Post by Rabbi Danny
5 Short Lines, Then Longer Version
Why, in the middle of the Haggadah text, do we (more…)
Cartoon: Anti-Social Media
My First Attempt At Cartooning
New technology can be used for constructive or destructive (more…)Posted in
Vayikra: Why Animal Sacrifice is Relevant to Us Even Today
Maimonides and Jung: First 5 Short lines
Then the Longer Version
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Printable version-e.g. for Sabbath Why does G-d command us to sacrifice animals? Isn’t that (more…)Posted in
You’ve Been Called Out: VAY-PEK
You’ve Been Called Out
Vayakhel-Pikuday: Taking Talents to Action
PDF Printable Several times, the Torah says that (more…)Posted in
Don’t We Have All of the Middot/Qualities?
A New Question: What Happens When we Remove Part of Your Brain?
One of the questions that is asked to me most frequently is: do we really only have only 3 or the 7 possible qualities that make up our personality? Don’t we have all of the traits?
In a now-famous case, a man had the part of his brain removed that controlled (more…)
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Life is Easier When you Replace Dad with Mom
Life is Easier When you Replace Dad with Mom
5 lines, Then Longer Version Below
PDF PrintMe Replacing Dad with Mom When Moshe appears to not descend Mt. Sinai at the appointed time, Israel decides to forsake (more…)
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A (Humorous) Way to Cure Insomnia: You Will Laugh at the Story in the First Paragraph
The Purim Intervention
PDF printable Purim InterventionA man once came to a therapist and complained that he suffered from insomnia. The therapist (more…)
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Did You Really Get it?
What’s Really Perplexing Moshe
A midrash portrays Moshe as (more…)
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How Well Was the Torah Edited?
Moshe’s Hierarchy of Needs
PDF Printout MishaptimWhen you look at the torah portion this week, Mishpatim, it is difficult, (more…)
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When Father-In-Law and Son-In-Law Dispute
When Great Leaders Dispute, Who is Correct?
Moshe provides the service of (more…)
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So You Think You Can Change Him?
How Giving Up Can Lead to Success
PDF Print for Shabbat Table! BeshalachWhen G-d leads Israel out of Egypt, he circumvents the land of the mighty Philistines (more…)
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Five Lines on Bo: What’s Your Kryptonite?
Sensitivity vs. Sensitivity
PDF Bo enduring vulnerabilitiesRabbi Joseph B. Soloveichik explains[1] that one of the (more…)