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Lag BaOmer 5765 - May 27, 2005

Living in the Future

It’s my favorite oxymoron: If one indeed lives in the future, it’s not the future anymore, is it? And if one only thinks he’s living in the future, then he's not really living there, is he?
Parshah
Bechukotai in a Nutshell
Rebuke, reward, and G-d’s promise of commitment. Also the mitzvah of tithing produce and livestock.
Living
What’s A “Hassid,” Anyway?

“The hassids are the ones with the black coats . . .” “No, no. All the Orthodox have long black coats and beards. The hassids are the ones with the wide-brimmed hats.” “No, they all wear the hats . . .”
Jono's Lemonade Stand

Jono decides he wants to give tzedakah (charity), but there's one problem... he needs to earn money to do that! Hilarity ensues
Relationships
A Wild Idea: The Kabbalah of Marriage

Marriage is a pretty bizarre concept. It must have been G-d's idea. Who else could think of such a whacky plan like bringing together two opposites and putting them under one roof to share a life?
Story
The Old Harp

The king loved the old harp player's melodies, but it was annoying when the old man interrupted his songs frequently to tune his rickety instrument...
Lag BaOmer 2026
Lag BaOmer is a festive day on the Jewish calendar, celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the great sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the end of a plague that raged amongst the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva.
The message of Pesach Sheini (the "second Passover" ordained by the Torah for those who fail to bring the Passover offering on its designated time) is: It is never too late. There is always a second chance
— The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950)
Print Magazine

True peace is not a forced truce, not a homogenization of differences, not a common ground that abandons our home territories.

True peace is the oneness that sprouts from diversity, the beauty that emerges from a panorama of colors, strokes and textures, from the harmony of many instruments each playing a unique part, n...

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