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Shlach 5763 -June 27, 2003

Sending

If we stop and think about what we’re doing at any given point in our lives, we’ll discover that, as often as not, we’re doing something for someone else, or sending someone else to do something for ourselves.
Parshah
Shelach in a Nutshell
The twelve spies return with giant fruit, frightening the Jewish people, who complain and receive a severe punishment. Laws of challah and tzitzit. A man publically desecrates Shabbat, and is put to death.
Relationships
How Can I Ever Forgive Him?

If we would know what this thing called marriage truly is, not a single one of us would ever venture it
Living
The Crumb, the Flyer, and My Son's Computer Game

I pointed to a short-cut. "Why don't you steer the car that way?" Twisting the joystick, he showed me: "See, it doesn't let me go off track"
Parenting
Upward Parenting

Some children focus on all the good they received from their parents. Others focus on what they feel they should have received
Story
After the Fast

"It seems," the horses surmised, "that we are not men after all, but angels, who do not partake of earthly food at all"
G-d transforms spirituality into physicality; the Jew makes physical things spiritual
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov