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Bassie’s Bas-Mitzvah Speech

Bassie’s Bas-Mitzvah Speech was an introduction to her “Book of Books” click f...

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Bassie’s Book of Books

Bassie is an avid reader, our bookworm. In preparation for her Bas-Mitzvah, and as her Bas-Mitzvah learning project, we discussed and studied and then prepared with Bassie this “Book of Books” ex...

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Two Chassidic Book Stories from Russia

by Rabbi Shlomo Galperin

In honor of my granddaughter Bassie’s Bas-Mitzvah theme focusing on books and her “Book of Books” project, I’d like to share two stories about...

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Two Roles of Witnesses

First a little Talmud on the role of witnesses:

In a commentary on the Talmud, the Rebbe speaks of two types of witnesses: Adei Kiyum (establishment witnesses) and Adei Birur (verification wi...

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Four Shoftim Messages for Start of College

The start of the new year at college always falls around one of these Devarim (Deuteronomy) Torah portions, this year in Parshat Shoftim. We ought to always look to Torah for guidance in our daily lives, esp...