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The Eye That Sees – the Avot Mishna in 2025

It so happens that this week, (especially HT to a tweet by digital artist Ilan Block on Twitter) this Mishna in Avot (Ethics of our Fathers) came to life in most vivid ways:

“Contemplate three t...

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Lessons from Flooding of July 2025

Unfortunately, flooding is a big news item this July 2025. The July 4th flooding along the Guadalupe River in the Texas claimed 130 lives (including young children at a summer camp, families in trailers, oth...

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Is there a Good Flood?

Flooding can be a big problem, it can be a terrible, devastating thing. It can ruin basements, carry away cars or entire homes, and worse, it can be life-threatening. Yes, water is life-giving, it’s a ...

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Tuvia’s Mitzvah Train… and Gimmel Tammuz

On the weekend prior to Gimmel Tammuz (3rd of Tammuz, Rebbe’s Yartzeit) this 5785/2025 we hosted a Galperin Family Reunion Get-Together. Long beautiful story of its own, but that’s why I was sitt...

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Tanya in Quarantine

Rabbi Meir Shlomo Yanofsky was the Rebbe’s maternal grandfather. He lived in Nikolayev, (known in Ukraine as Mykolayev) a southern Ukraine city then part of Russia/Soviet Union. Nikolayev is a famous b...