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Nitzavim-Vayelech
By the Numbers
6 Ways This Year (5787) Is Special
It's the longest year possible; it begins and ends with Shabbat, and more!
It's the longest year possible; it begins and ends with Shabbat, and more!
Your Questions
Why All the Symbolic Rosh Hashanah Foods?
Why are we rational Jews doing something that seems superstitious?
Why are we rational Jews doing something that seems superstitious?
What Does Judaism Tell Us About Absalom?
Discover the son of King David who revolted against his father and met an ignoble death.
Discover the son of King David who revolted against his father and met an ignoble death.
Freeman Files
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Parshah
Ten miracles were performed for our forefathers in the Holy Temple: No woman ever miscarried because of the smell of the holy meat. The holy meat never spoiled. Never was a fly seen in the slaughterhouse. Never did the High Priest have an accidental seminal discharge on Yom Kippur. The rains did not extinguish the wood-fire burning upon the altar. The wind did not prevail over the column of smoke [rising from the altar]. No disqualifying problem was ever discovered in the Omer offering, the Two Loaves or the Showbread. They stood crowded but had ample space in which to prostrate themselves. Never did a snake or scorpion cause injury in Jerusalem. And no man ever said to his fellow "My lodging in Jerusalem is too cramped for me''
— Ethics of the Fathers, 5:5
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The Baal Shem Tov taught:
To live a G‑dly life, to keep all the mitzvahs with awe, with love, and with joy—this is not something distant from you. It is who you truly are.
Because within you is a soul, a G‑d point, a divine living being that cannot allow itself to be torn away from G‑d, that only desires to be alwa...
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