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Author: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg
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51. The Blame Game
June 09, 2011
Almost forty percent of the cases in the Central African Republic’s court system are witchcraft prosecutions. Most of the accused are Pygmies who are known for bewitching each other. Do you have an infected toe? You can accuse your neighbor of hexing you because he doesn’t like you. Did bad weather ...
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52. The Forbidden Slippers
May 31, 2011
The architect Adolf Loos, wrote a story in 1900 entitled, “The Story of A Poor Rich Man.” In it, a wealthy man calls on a famous architect, telling him, “Bring art into my home, regardless of the expense.”
The architect hastens to renovate the apartment of his client. The colors of each room...
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53. The City Not By The Water
May 24, 2011
“I have left to last the dynamic component of the city, without which it could not have continued to increase in size and scope and productivity: this is the first efficient means of mass transport, the waterway. That the first growth of cities should have taken place in river valleys is no accident...
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54. Exiting the Cave
May 16, 2011
“In the pictures of the old masters,” Max Picard wrote in “The World of Silence,” “People seem as though they had just come out of an opening in a wall; as if they had wriggled their way out with difficulty. They seem unsafe and hesitant because they have come out too far and still belong more to si...
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55. Wisdom: Armor or Filter
May 09, 2011
Ben Zoma said: Who is wise? He who learns from all men, as it is written (Psalm 119:99) “I have gained understanding from all my teachers.”
I am in middle of reading a very strange book by Fernando Pessoa, a Portuguese writer, “The Book of Disquiet.” He seems to have a different definition ...
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56. In Search of Perfection
May 02, 2011
Thank God our prayers do not have to be as perfect as the animals brought as offerings! “Any in which there is a blemish you shall not offer, for it will not be favorable to you.” Imagine how we would feel if our prayers could not suffer any blemish: How would we be able to pray? Would a moment of l...
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57. Innocence & Experience Part Two
April 25, 2011
William Blake wrote two series of poems, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, and one character appears in both; The Chimney-Sweeper. The poet focuses on one of the great ills of late-eighteenth-century London life; the use of young boys and girls, aged between four and seven, sent up into th...
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58. Haftarah: Second Day Pesach: A Pesach of Covenant
April 20, 2011
II Kings 23:1-9, 21-25: “Before him there had never been a king who returned to God with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his resources, according to the entire Torah of Moshe, and after him, no one arose like him.” This is a story of Pesach as a tale of the Shema; “with all his heart,...
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59. A Dream: Wine & Vision
April 11, 2011
My wife told me that I was talking in my sleep: “Red eyed from wine (Genesis 49:12),” Rashi explains that this is an allusion to the great vision we have when we stand on a high place.
Consider the following four “visions” of Moshe: “It happened in those days that Moses grew up and went out ...
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60. Hallel: Rosh Chodesh Nisan: Paragraph Two
April 06, 2011
When Israel left Egypt,” “For you shall go out with joy (Isaiah 55:12),” the Community of Israel will be filled with joy when they go out of exile. As long as She is in exile and lies in the dust there will be nor real gladness. But only when the Holy One, Blessed is He, will raise Her from the dust...
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