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Daily Thought
Anxieties, worries, feelings of inadequacy and failure—all these smother and cripple the soul from doing its job. You need to find the appropriate time to deal with them. But don’t carry them around the whole day. During the...
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the overwhelming majority of tallits have historically been white, often with stripes. There are a number of reasons for this.
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