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Daily Thought
Man sees a tree and the tree says, “I am here, I was here, and I am nothing more but a thing that is here.” Man ponders and answers, “No! I give you a name! You are ‘tree’! You have beauty and you have a soul. You point upwards and you say, ‘There is something higher, there is the One who gives me life and gives me my very being.’” And so Man goes on, until he has brought the whole of creation down on its...
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Fire enhances life in a great many ways, while simultaneously being one of the most dangerous substances on earth.
“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army…”
Judaism teaches that G-d chooses who our parents are, where we are born, and when.
Honoring a patron of Jewish life on his yahrzeit, 17 Menachem Av.
Every mitzvah, even a simple rule that we would have figured out on our own, is part of a covenant and connection that entirely transcends our limited reality.
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