By Matis Friedman
Issue of Sept. 12, 2008
Recently I picked up some new suits from being checked for Shatnez (wool and linen interwoven) and came away with quite a story.
When dropping …
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9/11/08
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Not being ‘cross’
By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of Sept. 12, 2008
Chapter 22 has a unique list of seemingly random commandments:
You may not forego returning a lost object you come …
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9/11/08
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Loving the ‘ger’
By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of August 22, 2008
The Torah commands us to love three entities: G-d, our neighbor, and the “ger.” The term “ger” is usually …
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8/21/08
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Enjoy, enjoy!
By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of August 15, 2008
The Talmud (Taanit 30b) quotes the Mishnah when it says there were no holidays (literally "good days") on the Jewish calendar …
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8/13/08
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of August 8, 2008
This optimistic/pessimistic outlook is an embodiment of what Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik would call a “dialectic.” Tisha B’Av is the …
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8/7/08
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Tzlafchad’s daughters
In memory of Aharon Hakohen, who loved everyone and pursued peace between people, whose yahrzeit is this Shabbos, the first day of Av.
By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue …
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7/30/08
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Shabbos meals- no children allowed...?
By Rabbi Avi Billet
The best thing about Shabbos, a friend of mine says, is that it guarantees him two or three meals a week with his family. He can …
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7/23/08
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An unlikely reunion
by Rabbi Avi Billet
In light of last week's challenging "exchange" of soldiers Goldwasser and Regev for, among others, a murderer who does not deserve the treatment he …
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7/23/08
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