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Pinchas 5752 - June 28, 2002

Israel and the Battered Woman

"It takes two to make a fight. So I must deserve this -- after all, I'm not perfect either. I left dishes in the sink and didn't have dinner ready when he came home. Sometimes, I was a little confused after he beat me up and didn't function so well.."
Parshah
Pinchas in a Nutshell
Pinchas is rewarded for his zealotry. Another census, the laws of inheritance, and the division of the Land of Israel. Moses appoints Joshua as his successor.
Pinchas in a Nutshell
Pinchas is rewarded for his zealotry. Another census, the laws of inheritance, and the division of the Land of Israel. Moses appoints Joshua as his successor.
Story
The Beautiful Bride

"Why did your husband leave you?" asked Rabbi Israel.
"He says that I'm ugly," said the deserted wife.
"And what do you say to that?" asked the Chassidic master.
Rhythms

The oldest text of Kabbalah is Sefer HaYetzirah ("Book of Creation"), attributed to Abraham. In it is a cryptic phrase which Chassidism proceeds to explain: If your heart should run, return to the One
Parenting
My Favorite Kind of Night

In the Litvin family, “quality time” doesn’t always happen the way it happens in parenting books. In fact, we’ve discovered that it often has more to do with quantity than with quality.
One who causes his fellow to sin is worse than one who kills him
— Midrash Rabbah, Bamidbar 21:5
Print Magazine

The world is a place of constant change and unrest.

Each point in time is distinct from the point before and the point after.

Each point in space is its own world, with its own conditions and state of being.

It is a world of fragments, a perpetual rush of traffic and noise.

Look at your own life: You do so ...

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