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| Breaking the Bricks |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| Did you ever wonder how a little 105-pound Korean Karate specialist can break a whole stack of bricks? He didn't learn this skill by watching a You-Tube clip yesterday... |
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| Elul: Finding Our Way |
| By Rabbi Shalom Arush |
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| There's a basic law in navigation - you can't know where you're going until you know where you are. Most people have no idea where they are - they're lost in this world... |
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| Frummie Rebelette |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| A young lady from a “frum” family seemingly has everything in life, yet she repeatedly rebels against Hashem. Why? She herself has no idea, but she still suffers… |
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| The Gift of Failure |
| By Dovber HaLevi |
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| When we’re happy in marriage, we never get fired. We aren’t allowed to quit. We have the opportunities to reap the rewards of the most intense love and happiness here on earth… |
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| Forgiving and Forgetting |
| By Yehudit Levy |
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| For transgressing the laws between man and G-d, such as keeping kosher, we can repent to Him directly. But for hurting our fellow man, Hashem will not forgive us... |
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| Morality and Money |
| By Rabbi Shalom Arush |
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| Elul is a gift: when we do teshuva and clean up our souls, we are also removing obstacles that prevent us from enjoying an adequate and easy income… |
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| Confession: A New Perspective |
| By Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Kletzky |
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| Confession also encompasses simply telling Hashem about all the falls that we’ve gotten used to, to the point that we can’t imagine for ourselves living differently… |
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| Livelihood and Teshuva |
| By Rabbi Shalom Arush |
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| People used to “believe” in the banking system, or “believe” in the stock market, or “believe” in the dollar. But, every week, you read about another major financial disaster… |
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| Cash Only |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| The nerd with the beard and the black hat can barely afford a round-trip bus ticket to his Yeshiva, but Ronny drives a new Audi A4 convertible with a supercharged 2300 CC engine… |
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| The Secret of the Shofar |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| After having told the story of "The King and the Woodsman", which we concluded last week, with Hashem’s loving grace, here is a brief interpretation of the underlying imagery. |
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| Final Request |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| A noose is about to be placed around Vassily’s neck, but first he is granted his final request and allowed to don his forest clothes and address the King and Parliament... |
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| High Treason |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| As minister of internal security, Puzhnikov ran a crooked reign of internal terror based on bribery and protection; he swore to dispose of Vassily at all costs... |
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| The King and the Woodsman |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| This is Rabbi Lazer's adaptation of an old Chassidic parable that he heard in Yiddish from the Melitzer Rebbe. Hidden within the parable are the secrets of Elul and Rosh Hashana. |
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| Why the Window? |
| By Rabbi Pinchas Winston |
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| Why does a Baal Teshuva need the special window in the letter “heh” ? Why doesn't he simply climb back in through the bottom hole through which he fell? |
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