Category Archives: Jewish

49 and counting

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Baruch

                                       This could well be my blog for last week, this week and the month to come, but it probably won’t.   Something else always can be expected.  But starting on the second night of Passover we began doing something … Continue reading →

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AN IDEA TO CELEBRATE

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Baruch

   At our Seder, a teenage guest named Natalie asked a question that is not in the Haggadah.   “We have Pesach to celebrate the end of Egyptian slavery,” she said, “so why don’t we have a holiday to celebrate the … Continue reading →

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SLAVERY AND DEBT CEILINGS

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Baruch

  Do you like variety in your learning? You get plenty of it in the Sedrah called “R’eyh” — in Deuteronomy chapters 11 thru 16. Here we find subjects like sacrificial worship, idolatry in the family or in a whole … Continue reading →

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HEEL AND TOE

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Baruch

EYKEV   The third Torah reading in the book of Deuteronomy is called EYKEV — meaning a result. As a result of listening to the commandments and following them, we can expect to accomplish good things in our lives. If … Continue reading →

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WHO IS A GREAT NATION?

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Baruch

Once on an airplane I was sitting next to a man from Belgium, and we did our best to converse despite some linguistic problems. Looking at my yarmulke, he determined that I was Jewish, and then he declared: “The Jews … Continue reading →

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