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Like a Rose Among Thorns

A Midrashic description of the biblical Rivka/Rebecca in the house of Lavan/Laban before marrying Isaac is “Like a Rose Among Thorns.”

I thought of this phrase a number of times during my stint at Grand Jury duty on 8 Fridays … Read the rest

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Moses’ Criteria for his Successor

What was Moshe looking for in his successor?

The verse in Parsha Pinchas tells us when Moshe asked about a successor, he addressed G-d as “G-d of the Spirits!”

Now, that’s an unusual expression! Why did Moshe address G-d this … Read the rest

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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 things, and you will not … Read the rest

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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, others vacationing etc) with many people … Read the rest

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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 key ingredient of life and … Read the rest

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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 sitting on the couch reading books to my … Read the rest

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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 beloved city in Chabad lore thanks to the many … Read the rest

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Seeing Highway Exits as (Torah) Interchanges

We noticed on our road-trip to Toronto that highway exits are not usually called Exits, instead they are more often called “Interchanges”. We assume this is because this is a spot where cars are both exiting and entering the highways. … Read the rest

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Collection of Shavuot Messages, Insights & Tidbits

Shavuot is the holiday that celebrates the Giving of the Torah at Sinai. It’s celebrated 7 Weeks (of Omer Counting) after the start of Passover. Most years it falls after Graduation Weekend and it’s the holiday we like to go … Read the rest

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Ending on a Good Note

It so happens that thanks to calendar scheduling and when Passover fell, our annual Dessert Bake-Off for 2005 ending up being the last Shabbat of the Spring 2025 semester before Finals Week. I thought about the significance of this, and … Read the rest

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