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A Collection of Warmth

With all the cold raging outside, we thought it appropriate to share a collection of stories and inspiration about “internal” warmth.

First a few links from past “mendels message...

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Lessons from Driving a Hybrid Car

New Years 2018 was our first opportunity to drive a hybrid car, a Ford Fusion Hybrid to be exact. As the Baal Shem Tov taught, and as we are wont to do, here are two life-lessons we learned from our …...

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Tea and Tehillim

We did a whole Torah-Tuesday class on this, all based on this saying from Zeide Moshe Rubin:

He used to say: Tea and Tehillim are always good, but they have to be hot!

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Two Chassidic Stories of Chanukah in the Forest

One day this Chanukah 2017 I shared two Chanukah stories with my 7th graders at the Maimonides School in Albany. They asked, “Hey, both these stories are about Chanukah in the forest, deep in the woods...