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Rav Hershel Schachter: How to Find Meaning as a Ben Torah in the Workforce (Career, Torah, Money) (video) - ------------------------------------------------------ *Reach thousands of readers with your ad by advertising on Life in Israel* -------------------...
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Altalena Wreckage Located Off Israeli Coast 78 Years After Deadly 1948 Clash - The wreckage of the Altalena, the arms-carrying Irgun vessel whose destruction during Israel’s War of Independence became one of the most bitter episodes i...21 hours ago
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Rav Yoel of Satmar ZT"L "The Heiliger Days are Coming" - A rare recoding of the Satmar Rebbe Rav Yoel Teitelbaum.
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The Gemara About Rosh HaShanah (and Changing Fate & Mazal) part 4, Rosh HaShanah 16b - Uganda Shiur - Meeting Purpose To explore Rosh Hashanah's Day of Judgment and how to influence one's fate. Key Takeaways - *Four Actions to Revoke a Bad Judgmen...
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Daily Reyd - Article summaries generated by AI: • The Birth of the American Jewish Book – American Jewish publishing evolved from imported European books to locally pri...1 day ago
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The Sheaf You Left Behind - The Man on the Ash Heap He lost his money. Then he lost his children. Then he lost his health, and by the end he was sitting on a public ash heap outside o...5 days ago
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The Vanishing Note: Devorah, Women Dayanim, and a Missing הערה in Hilchos Dayyanus - The Vanishing Note: Devorah, Women Dayanim, and a Missing הערה in Hilchos Dayyanus by: Naftali Goldberg Whilst learning siman ז of Choshen Mishpat with my...1 week ago
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The Day Has Arrived - I wasn’t expecting this. The day that charedim in Israel would say, “Enough is enough. We work for a living, and refuse to be treated any longer as secon...3 weeks ago
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Hug Your Neighbor Like Yourself - I went out to lunch with a friend a few weeks ago. We often talk about a range of topics. Toward the end, we drifted into one we both knew we should avoi...4 weeks ago
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I finally wrote something worth sharing - https://open.substack.com/pub/shimonsteinmetz/p/ve-heishiv-leiv-avos-al-banim-ve1 month ago
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Sign Up to Our Newsletter! - Redux: adjective – resurgence; refers to being brought back, restored, or revived; something familiar presented in a new way. Not to see what no one else h...5 years ago
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Lag Baomer and Chinuch -ל”ג בעומר ומצות חינוך - We recently read פרשת אמור אל הכהנים, where we are taught the important lesson, להזהיר גדולים על הקטנים, that not only gedolim/adults are obligated in the ...7 years ago
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Dvar Torah - Titzave - Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin - This week we are privileged to read the portion of Titzave. The portion begins with the mitzvah of preparing proper olive oil in order to kindle the Menor...7 years ago
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R' Gil Student's Overview of the Esoteric Vs. Harmonistic Debate and Dr. Slifkin (Corrected Link) - Just before Pesach, I came across Rabbi Gil Student's Overview of the two vastly disparate approaches to the Rambam. Here is his basic outline of the two...
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Tikun Olam vs. Tikun Hameuvas - Many bloggers ostensibly go into blogging to participate in Tikun Olam. They see suffering and write to diminish it, they observe injustice and post t...11 years ago
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Why Do Orthodox Women Need Female Yoatzot? - Let's take a quick survey of the reasons given by Orthodox feminists for the need to train female Yoatzot to answer questions specifically in the realm of ...11 years ago
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TTT :: Sois Osis • Dovid Gabay - So vanilla as to not even be terrible. It's just not...anything. Lyrics are indiscernible, harmonies are haphazard, and yet, this tune almost escaped being...12 years ago
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Signing Off - When I first started blogging, it was before the Asifa. Post-asifa, there arose the question whether I could (and should) continue. Consulting my mentor, w...14 years ago
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A description of, and conversation with the great R' Yisroel Moshe Chazan - Following is a passage from "Nach Jerusalem" by Ludwig Frankl (pg. 4 of translation): I reached, after walking a considerable distance, the stately house o...15 years ago
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This Blog Has Moved - After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a new format that has more functionality and is more esthetically pleasing. Please ...
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