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Ki Tavo 5762 - August 23, 2002

Timed Out

A child's feelings of failure, the crumbling of a little girl's self-image, are not worth the gain of the skill. Every mother knows this. And that's when I wonder about You, G-d...
Parshah
Ki Tavo in a Nutshell
Gratitude and tithes and rebuke. Moses lists the blessings the Jewish nation will receive if they follow G-d’s ways, and the bad things that will befall them if they stray.
Ki Tavo in a Nutshell
Gratitude and tithes and rebuke. Moses lists the blessings the Jewish nation will receive if they follow G-d’s ways, and the bad things that will befall them if they stray.
What Is A Soul?

A mystified spiritual seeker breaks though to the celestial Internet and chats with an angel. Turns out that the spiritual being is just as mystified about what is a body
Story
"Only Mine..."

"Take these and run to Umschlagplatz. Run! Tell the kapos that your daughter is among the captured. This is an unwritten law among us -- no snatching of policemen's children"
Parenting
The Difference Between Anger and Hate

"You don't love me. If you loved me you would allow me to..." Children are experts in making us feel guilty. The trick is to understand what they're really saying
There are two ways to get warm on a cold winter day: a) build a fire, which warms everyone else in the room as well; or b) wrap yourself in furs, which conserves your own warmth but does not generate any heat or warm anyone else. Thus chassidim would say: “Don’t be a tzaddik in a fur coat!”
Print Magazine

It’s G-d’s world. Everything He gives is good, the sweetest good.

But it is often a good far too great for us to understand. We imagine it is not good, because that’s the only way to make sense of it with our small minds.

Yet the truth is, He gives us all the good we can handle. If we could take more, He would g...