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The Pilot & The Passengers, the Charge & the Silence

This story may soon appear in national newspapers. We heard it from Rabbi Mendy and Devorah Leah Mathless who run the University Heights Chabad adjacent to Albany Medical Center and Bikur Cholim services...

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#RashiToday: Eikev

Eikev Day 1:

Eikev can mean “because” or “heel”. The former seems to be a simpler contextual fit, but #RashiToday (Eikev Day 1) goes with heel (as the sole int...

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#RashiToday: Vaetchanan

Vaetchanan Day 1:

1st #RashiToday commentary on Vaetchanan (Day 1) has 2 commentaries on this usual (opening) title word: (1) request for a free gift (2) a form of prayer. Based on a ...

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Reasons to Celebrate Tu B’Av

The Talmud Taanit (near the end) lists 5 historical reasons to highly celebrate TuBav (15th of Av) in contrast & soon after the dark sadness TishaBAv:

(1) it marks when generation of desert stoppe...

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#RashiToday: Devarim

Devarim Day 1

Moshe insisted his critique of their behavior be said to ALL the Jews, lest anyone non-present feel it irrelevant for them. But the critique itself was couched in allego...