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Ki Tisa 5767 - March 9, 2007

G‑d is Somewhere

G‑d may be everywhere, but I need a G‑d who is somewhere
Parshah
Ki Tisa & Parah
The Jews are counted, instructions are given for the remaining holy vessels, and two architects are chosen to direct the Tabernacle’s construction. When Moses doesn’t return on time, the people create and worship a golden calf. Moses breaks the two tablets, returns to heaven, and descends with two new tablets.
Story
Finding My Family

A veil of impregnable silence and pain had cut me off from any discussion or knowledge of my mother's family since their tragic and sudden deaths 35 years ago...
How Can I Be Happy?

When I look at myself and my life I see plenty of reasons to be miserable. Am I supposed to be able to just switch on happiness at will?
Parenting
Proactive Parenting

Is there any benefit in compelling your child to do what is right, when he’s doing so only because he cannot disobey you?
The Calf’s Mother

King Solomon was baffled; Moses turned pale. Indeed, only the most incomprehensible of divine decrees -- the law of the Red Heifer -- can act as an antidote for the incomprehensible phenomenon of death
Money is fire: it can destroy and annihilate, or illuminate and warm, depending on how it is used
— Chassidic master Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk
Print Magazine

True peace is not a forced truce, not a homogenization of differences, not a common ground that abandons our home territories.

True peace is the oneness that sprouts from diversity, the beauty that emerges from a panorama of colors, strokes and textures, from the harmony of many instruments each playing a unique part, n...

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