Showing posts with label Jewish Ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish Ethics. Show all posts
Monday, March 2, 2026

Drowning Out Evil: What the Purim Practice of Noisemaking Teaches About Moral Clarity

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The news cycle as of late has been filled with reports of Operation Epic Fury, which is the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign targeting the remna...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Parsha Chukat: What A Military Encounter Can Teach About Personal Development

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The Israelites had been wandering in the desert for forty years. They were trying to get to the land of Israel, but they kept running into v...
Monday, April 3, 2023

"No Man Is an Island": A Passover Lesson on Being There for Others

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While the holiday of Passover, also known as Pesach (פסח), is a particularly Jewish holiday, it also has such universal themes as freedom an...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Applying the Tension of Scarcity and Abundance Within the Passover Seder to Our Daily Lives

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Last week, I was studying some Pirkei Avot, a Jewish ethical text, with a synagogue down in Buenos Aires. I had it on in the background whil...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

The Jewish Prayer Modeh Ani Is Much More Than Saying Thanks

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How we wake up in the morning can set the tone for the rest of the day. Research shows that morning routines can increase productivity, low...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Parsha Toldot: The Timeless Lesson of How Envy Causes Harm and How to Minimize It

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I have studied multiple languages over the years, and I have been amazed at how much we rely on idioms in the English language. Idioms make ...
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Monday, September 17, 2018

Teshuvah Is an Ongoing Process, and It Is Not Just for Yom Kippur

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'Tis the Jewish season...for repentance, that is. We are currently in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which is known as Yamim Nora...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Parsha Re'eh: A Spiritual Life Lesson on Judaism's Prohibition of Mixing Meat and Dairy

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Food plays such a major role in our lives. We eat three meals a day, not to mention food is a great way to bring people together. What we do...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Chanukah Gelt: The Significance of Giving Money on Chanukah

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To quote Adam Sandler, "Chanukah is the Festival of Lights. Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights." In Americ...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Why the Extra Ne'ilah Service on Yom Kippur?

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Yom Kippur is not only a day of fasting, atonement, and introspection. It is a day for a whole lot of religious services. On normal days, th...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Parsha Bechukotai: Our Homes as a Sanctuary for Holiness

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Some think that to find holiness, you have to venture halfway across the world to a monastery to seek solitude or some other holy site to fe...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Parsha Ki Tisa: The Half-Shekel, Purim, and a Lesson on Giving

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Purim is a Jewish festival of joy. Jews dress up in costumes, read from the Megillah, and enjoy the festivities. There is a somewhat peculia...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Parsha Tetzaveh: Holy Golden Headband, Batman!

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"Clothing makes the man." We certainly see that in this week's Torah portion, Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10). For over 40 verse...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Parsha Mishpatim: A Jewish Obligation to Help the Stranger, the Refugee, and the Immigrant

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It is a rare occasion when I mix Torah and politics, but this is one of those times. Donald Trump has only been President of the United Stat...
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