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Ki Teitzei 5766 - September 1, 2006
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Take Heart Pluto, Less is More
As a member of the Jewish people I say, "Pluto, we feel your pain..."
As a member of the Jewish people I say, "Pluto, we feel your pain..."
Parshah
Ki Teitzei in a Nutshell
The law of the beautiful captive and the rebellious son, the hybrid garment and the falsely accused spouse, the hungry employee and a dead brother’s wife, how to get married and when to get divorced—and sixty-six other mitzvot.
The law of the beautiful captive and the rebellious son, the hybrid garment and the falsely accused spouse, the hungry employee and a dead brother’s wife, how to get married and when to get divorced—and sixty-six other mitzvot.
Relationships
An Intimate View on Intimacy
To be intimate means to go into a place that is private, that is sacred, that is set aside. It means one person entering into the private, sacred part of another human being's existence...
To be intimate means to go into a place that is private, that is sacred, that is set aside. It means one person entering into the private, sacred part of another human being's existence...
Where Is the Woman of My Dreams?
I know what you are going to say: I am too fussy. But I can’t just settle on something half good. Where is the woman of my dreams?
I know what you are going to say: I am too fussy. But I can’t just settle on something half good. Where is the woman of my dreams?
The Sign
When Roy takes a summer vacation, Itche and Jono are left without a set. A mysterious sign is their only company...
When Roy takes a summer vacation, Itche and Jono are left without a set. A mysterious sign is their only company...
Story
The Wonder Horse
Finally, Reb Yehoshua set a price of 25 Napoleons—a sum that would support a family for two years. Surely, no one would be so foolhardy as to pay that kind of money for a horse . . . !
Finally, Reb Yehoshua set a price of 25 Napoleons—a sum that would support a family for two years. Surely, no one would be so foolhardy as to pay that kind of money for a horse . . . !
When the king is in the city, inside his royal palace, none can enter into his presence except by appointment, and only special people and select individuals... But when he goes out into the field, everyone who so desires is permitted to meet him; he receives them all with a cheerful countenance and shows a smiling face to them all... So, too, by analogy, the month of Elul is when we meet G-d in the field
— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi
Print Magazine
Looking at your world from Above, all is good.
Looking at your world from within, things don’t always look so nice.
Until you connect your world below to the world above. Then the goodness flows downward without distortion.
How do you make that connection? By clinging tightly above.
By putting all your trust in G‑d.
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