tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314021922024-03-14T11:56:38.245+02:00Rabbi Shishler onlineThe Baal Shem Tov taught: Whatever a Jew sees or hears is there to teach him a lesson in spiritual development.
Musings on life, spirituality and current world events.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.comBlogger322125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-59044231330688307382017-07-23T23:11:00.003+02:002017-07-23T23:11:17.425+02:00New blogI've just launched a new blog at Times of Israel.<br />
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Please take a look: <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/onion-rings/">http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/onion-rings/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-5742171278295153062017-02-02T13:46:00.000+02:002017-02-02T22:23:51.461+02:00Apparently, our daughter wasn't born<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
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<span data-offset-key="fbdmo-0-0"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I received an SMS asking us to provide supporting documents for our daughter's unabridged birth certificate application. I found that strange. We've applied for unabridged birth certificates for our kids a few times before and have never before needed to provide any supporting docs.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="32bad-0-0"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's right. They wanted me to prove that the fourteen-year-old girl, standing in front of them holding her regular birth certificate, had been born. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c56fd-0-0"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My wife and I tried reasoning with the officials that we were holding both her abridged birth certificate and the old "full" birth certificate (which is not the same, you should know, as an unabridged birth certificate, because it is handwritten, not computer-generated). To my mind,that should have proven that she was born.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4uh3s-0-0"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You should have seen our daughter's face I informed on the way home from school that she exists, but wasn't necessarily born. I'm not sure if she felt special or simply confused...</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="qp43-0-0"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week's Parsha describes the Exodus. Jews existed before leaving Egypt. Then we were twelve tribes, usually called the "Bnei (Children of) Israel".</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fvjag-0-0"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet, the prophet Ezekiel notes that, only once we left Egypt, were we "born". You may wonder how a nation can exist, yet not be born. Consider that a baby exists for nine months before being born. During that time, the fetus is well nourished and secure, but unable to function independently. An unborn baby cannot make a difference in the world- and the entire reason we were put here is to make a difference. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-73970351136711650672016-08-07T11:00:00.000+02:002016-08-07T11:00:20.137+02:00Marriage: A tribute<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We once asked my grandmother what she believed was the secret to a long, happy marriage. My grandparents were then married sixty years. They went on to enjoy a further eight years of bliss, before passing away this year, within a short three months of each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Hollywood sells love as an emotional tsunami and marriage as its natural consequence. Airbrushed on-screen couples who fall in love in a flash and then ride off into a passionate flawless forever have become the fantasy models of many modern couples. Ever hear a groom croon in his wedding speech how he “can’t wait to spend the rest of his life with his bride”? Couples gush how they each “complete each other” and imagine that their rose-tinted view of themselves will endure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sadly, when things don’t pan out in HD glossy technicolour, too many couples rush to the divorce courts, intern in therapy and mould a new “me” to market to their next prospective partner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />My grandparents lived in a different matrix. They were wholly different to each other. She was educated, dignified and prudent, and would update her Oxford dictionary for kicks. He was street-smart, a maverick, who shot from the hip- and he couldn’t spell. No, they did not always see eye to eye. Yes, she did roll her eyes at his intrepid escapades. Of course, they loved each other, deeply.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />But theirs wasn’t a gushing public romance, nor was it today’s popular quid pro quo approach of “fulfilling my needs”.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My gran’s secret to a successful marriage was simple: “When you stand under the chupah, you need to realize you’re in it for the long haul.”<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank G-d, I was blessed to grow up watching a couple who knew that for a relationship to work, you each have to work. Hard. Couples would do well to trade in Silver Screen romance for such real- life role models.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-65256471518368003852016-05-22T18:17:00.001+02:002016-05-22T18:17:25.925+02:00How to get unstuck<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0gRK3gyDfas" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-82501506013185816212016-05-12T16:52:00.001+02:002016-05-12T16:52:05.207+02:00The ultimate summary of everything<div class="text1">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">You've certainly heard the story, because <em>everyone</em> knows this story. It's the one about the prospective convert who wanted to be taught the entire Torah as he balanced on one foot. Now, that really is an unreasonable expectation. Torah is vast. We have 613 laws, each comprised of reams of details, plus all the philosophy and mysticism, not to mention the history contained in the Torah. </span><span style="color: navy;">Who could reasonably expect that any sage, regardless how talented, could precis that into a 60 second presentation?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Torah's lifestyle is designed to tune us in to experiencing what lies beyond the surface. If a piece of parchment can become a conduit for Divine blessing, kosher meat a vehicle for spiritual connection and wool a garment of G-dly protection, then a person can become a beacon of light and an expression of G-d.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As we do more mitzvos and study more Torah, we become more aware of the value of the spiritual and the depth of the soul. This helps us see the next person not as a separate being who might steal my opportunities, interfere with my dreams or make demands on my time. Instead, I see others as souls masquerading as bodies. I appreciate that all souls are connected and the way I treat that person is effectively the way I treat myself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hillel encapsulated the two vital signs of healthy Judaism into one statement: You will only treat others properly if you pursue G-d's life-plan. And you only succeed at following G-d's programme when you see that you treat others altogether better.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-85864975864121317232016-04-21T23:12:00.001+02:002016-04-21T23:12:43.857+02:00There are only two kinds of Jews...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're about to celebrate Pesach. That's when the Jews left Egypt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, actually, only 20% of the Israelites made it out. A full 80% remained behind and perished in Egypt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shh, don't tell anyone.We prefer to keep this uncomfortable info "in the tribe".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who would have imagined that Moses would have such a poor response to his "Let My People Go"? We get it that Pharaoh didn't get it, but you'd think the Israelites would have jumped at the chance to join a leader who could turn the Nile to blood and shut off the Sun for a week. Moses should have had a cult following. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's the old 80/20 rule and it offers a stark insight into our people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are only two kinds of Jews: Those who leave Egypt and those who don't. Pesach challenges us to confront which kind of Jew we are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Egypt represents every bad habit that we can't seem to shake and every unhealthy mindset we have cemented over time. Pharaoh's voice reverberates in ours head as self-doubt. We want to break out and shift gears, but we find it easier to flop back into the well-trodden path of past mistakes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are only two kinds of Jews: Those who break out and those who don't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No Moses, regardless of how compelling his presentation is, can rescue us from Egypt. Moses cannot make us let go. He can show us opportunity, he can redirect our focus, but only we can take the daunting step to change. Moses cannot take anyone out of Egypt until they are ready to leave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are only two kinds of Jews: Those who take a step to leave Egypt and those who wistfully plan to one day leaving Egypt, when the circumstances are favourable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We can only flee Egypt when we recognize that only we can take us out of Egypt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In truth, there is actually only one kind of Jew. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jacob's great-grandchildren who lived in Egypt were not yet Jewish. Jews only came about once the Torah had been given, which was only to happen after the Exodus. Those Israelites who remained in Egypt were genetically linked to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but could choose to opt out of their spiritual connection to their ancestors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most did opt out. They never became Jewish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every single Jew left Egypt. Had they not left Egypt, they would not have stood at Sinai and would not have become Jews. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every Jew leaves Egypt. Nobody gets stuck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pesach reminds us that it is our destiny to escape. Pesach challenges us to make the inevitable move sooner, rather than later. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-29145286270309579092016-01-28T22:01:00.000+02:002016-01-28T22:01:19.926+02:00Did you get my message?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are so busy, just so very busy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psychologists now even have a term for it. They say we suffer from "time poverty". In English, that means that we don't believe we have enough time to accommodate all the things that we want to do. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ironic, isn't it? In the 30's they predicted that by now we'd only work about three hours a day, because technology would take care of the rest. As right as they were, they were wrong. Technology swallows up the spare time that technology was meant to provide. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, we're all really hectic. That hectic that we may miss breakfast. So insane that we can't even reply to each other's messages. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At least, I assume that's the reason so few people respond to each other. It surely can't be because people are outright rude, so it must be because we're all so busy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The thing is, it <em>feels </em>disrespectful to the person on the other side of the Whatsapp. If they can tell that you're online or have read their message, and they get no response, they will be obviously feel offended. Someone captured it perfectly online: "It is easy to <strong>say </strong>'busy' when someone needs you, but it is painful to <strong>hear </strong>'busy' when you need someone".</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hillel used to say, "What is hateful to you, do not do to others. The rest is commentary". </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The great irony is that it's really easy to get back to people nowadays. We no longer have to compose a handwritten letter and mail it. We don't even need to allocate time for a full phone conversation to communicate. Shooting off a text response takes just seconds. Yet, in the days of snail mail and rotary phones, people managed to stay in touch better than we techno-whizzes do today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Twenty seconds of text-response can go a long way to building relationships. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm not suggesting that we should drop everything to hit reply as each new message arrives. That is simply impractical. Anybody who expects us to be thumbs-at-the-ready to respond on the spot is out of touch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, no response? No excuse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am reminded of the Mishna in Pirkei Avot that says that you only enjoy honour when you afford honour to others. Profound idea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ah, but maybe not every message needs a response. What if the person already knows what I think or that I have confirmed our meeting? Do I need to respond then too?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here, we can take a page from Moshe's book. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In this week's Parsha, Moshe is charged with coordinating the three days of preparation before receiving the Torah. In that time, Moshe had to shuttle back and forth from the Jews at the foot of the mountain to G-d at the top. He had to guide the Jews on the steps they needed to make before G-d would reveal Himself. He had to cordon off the entire mountain. He had to shimmy up the mountain for updated details from Hashem on the nuances of the preparation. And he had to gear himself spiritually to handle the biggest Divine event since Creation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now Moshe could well have had an excuse not to respond to messages until after all the chaos. He certainly didn't have to report to G-d, because G-d knows everything. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nonetheless, the Torah reports that Moshe made the trip up the mountain (pity he didn't have Whatsapp) to let G-d know that the Jews were preparing as instructed and that everything was on course for the Great Reveal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rashi, the Ramban and other commentators ask why Moshe stressed so much to personally communicate this information to G-d. After all, he would only be telling G-d things He already knew.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They conclude that Moshe wanted to model the importance of communication. He wanted us to appreciate that it's only right to get back to someone who has communicated with you, even if they already know your answer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If Moshe felt he should return G-d's messages, we should do the same for each other. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hope you got my message...</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-1225967722700226932015-12-21T11:25:00.001+02:002015-12-21T11:25:22.029+02:00My phone's not so smart... or is it?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They tell me it’s temporary, but the last few days have felt
like an eternity. I find it difficult to communicate. I have lost contact with
hundreds of people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am isolated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No news. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can’t monitor your special moments in real-time. Even
chatting with friends has become a burden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My cell-phone is in for repairs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, they have given me a loan phone. My cynical side might call it a dumb-phone
(as in the antithesis of smartphone). But, Its eight-day battery-life has earned
it enough of my respect for me to fondly nickname it my “Chanukah phone”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had a phone like this once. In 1997. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be fair, this phone can do more than just call and SMS. It
has a calculator, a flashlight and even a selection of two-dimensional games. I’m
sticking with calls for now, because typing messages on that
push-the-button-three-times-to-type-a-letter system is agonizing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One plus is
that this phone has no auto-text. I haven’t messaged anyone “Good Shabby” or signed
off as “rabbit”. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But, I have no Whatsapp, no social media and I have to wait
until I get home to read my emails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Truthfully, it’s a good time of year to have this inconvenience.
December is summer vacation time, and being technologically incapacitated should
be quite restful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the first day one of this loan-phone adventure, I
habitually checked that device every five minutes to make sure it was still
operational. A phone as quiet as that thing was had to be comatose, if at all alive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the day advanced, I began to enjoy the absence of beeps
and jingles. I spoke to my children with no electronic interference. I made it through
a full Shul service without checking for messages and spoke to people while
making eye-contact (I think it made them uncomfortable). I felt no pressure to
avoid opening any app that might betray my having seen a message without responding
immediately. I may not have made it to Cape Town, but I was in full holiday
mode. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By day two, dim memories of life pre-technology started to surface. Now foreign experiences, like summer evening walks, Monopoly games and researching information in books floated back. Life started to feel a little slower, a little quieter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I could get used to this! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My imagination tempted me with the promise of family fun, longer study sessions and
spare time in the diary. Maybe I could simply not collect my smartphone when
the service centre called. If I kept this magically non-invasive phone, surely they
could sell my S6 Edge to defray costs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, then I realized the phone may have gone quiet, but that
didn’t mean I had fewer interactions to manage. People had sent just as many queries, I just hadn't received them. Who knows? There are probably more than a few disgruntled people who think I am ignoring them. My “kosher” phone, as the frum
world call it, is a great escape, but it isn't practical for 21<sup>st</sup>
Century rabbinics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, you can always find guidance and wisdom in the weekly Torah reading. My phone escapade coincided with the portion about Joseph and his brothers. Joseph was a smartphone person, his siblings more the "kosher phone" type. </span></div>
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into the thick of the modern world. His brothers were certain nobody could
retain their spiritual integrity while living in the hub of civilization. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Joseph
proved them wrong. Not only did he successfully enter the modern world, he rose
to prominence and raised a spiritually-sound family to boot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Years earlier, Joseph had predicted that his brothers would
eventually come around to his approach. They had balked at the prospect. Today, Judaism is modeled after Joseph's approach; a
spiritual path that engages- and shapes- the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That non-invasive simple-phone is very attractive, but my
smartphone allows me to reach and touch the world. And to hopefully make a positive impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That said, my current techno go-slow is a good reminder that
all-consuming connectivity is unhealthy. You can only influence the world if
you are in the driver’s seat. Joseph shaped the world from a position of power. You only make a difference when you control the technology, not when you are controlled by it. And to stay in control, you need to be able to completely disengage regularly and reconnect with ancient, bedrock values. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m looking forward to getting my slick, connected
phone back, so I can easily interact with the world out there. But, if I don’t get back to you immediately or if I’m
not the fastest to like or retweet your content, that’s because my time
with my “Chanukah” phone has reminded me that switching off during family,
social, study or spiritual time is more valuable than being virtually present
all day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-88966861753580582152015-05-29T12:39:00.000+02:002015-05-29T12:39:14.056+02:00Nkandla and the Nazir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Infidelity is more than breaking the trust of one's life-partner, it is an affront to G-d and our own innate hto oliness. </span></span></div>
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unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; x: 0px; y: 0px; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Nazir is the complete opposite. He or she is someone who shuns pleasure in order to strengthen a connection with G-d. A Nazir wants to be <em style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; 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mix-blend-mode: normal; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; perspective: none; pointer-events: auto; position: static; r: 0px; resize: none; right: auto; rx: 0px; ry: 0px; shape-image-threshold: 0; shape-margin: 0px; shape-outside: none; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; x: 0px; y: 0px; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;">kadosh</em>, holy and focused.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; 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mix-blend-mode: normal; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; perspective: none; pointer-events: auto; position: static; r: 0px; resize: none; right: auto; rx: 0px; ry: 0px; shape-image-threshold: 0; shape-margin: 0px; shape-outside: none; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; x: 0px; y: 0px; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You'll agree that these two characters are polar opposite, so it is surprising that the Torah desrcibes them one after the other. Why the link? The Talmud says that, if you see someone fall into temptation, like a Sotah, you should abstain from wine, like a Nazir.</span></span></div>
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mix-blend-mode: normal; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; perspective: none; pointer-events: auto; position: static; r: 0px; resize: none; right: auto; rx: 0px; ry: 0px; shape-image-threshold: 0; shape-margin: 0px; shape-outside: none; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; x: 0px; y: 0px; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In other words, if you see someone else fail, take precautions to ensure you remain beyond reproach.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-mask: none 0% 0% / auto repeat border-box border-box; -webkit-perspective-origin: 0px 0px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; 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mix-blend-mode: normal; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; perspective: none; pointer-events: auto; position: static; r: 0px; resize: none; right: auto; rx: 0px; ry: 0px; shape-image-threshold: 0; shape-margin: 0px; shape-outside: none; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; x: 0px; y: 0px; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is a great lesson, but you have to wonder: Surely, someone who is inclined to take an oath of dedication to G-d is a long stretch from someone who commits adultery. Why the need for an immediate (and drastic) response to someone else's weakness?</span></span></div>
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mix-blend-mode: normal; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; perspective: none; pointer-events: auto; position: static; r: 0px; resize: none; right: auto; rx: 0px; ry: 0px; shape-image-threshold: 0; shape-margin: 0px; shape-outside: none; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; 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Thankfully, we remain unaware of most of them. But, when we a scandal catches our eye, we shouldn't just use it as Friday night table content, we should recognize that Hashem is messaging us. When He makes us aware of someone else's wrongdoing, He actually holds a mirror up for us to examine our own weaknesses.</span></span></div>
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stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; x: 0px; y: 0px; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;">has many South Africans, including many of our own community seething; possibly with good reason. How can anyone justify throwing enormous amounts of money away on elaborate entertainment facilites and then claim that these are home essentials? It's obscene.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; 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bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearRGB; color-interpolation: sRGB; color-rendering: auto; counter-increment: none; counter-reset: none; cursor: default; cx: 0px; cy: 0px; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; isolation: auto; justify-content: start; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; mix-blend-mode: normal; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; perspective: none; pointer-events: auto; position: static; r: 0px; resize: none; right: auto; rx: 0px; ry: 0px; shape-image-threshold: 0; shape-margin: 0px; shape-outside: none; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; x: 0px; y: 0px; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, it makes me think of our "keep up with the Cohens" barmis, batties and weddings. South Africa has not yet seen a barmi with a "fire pool" or a battie at a kraal. But, I think we've lost our way pumping big budget into eye-catching decor and outfits, top of the line catering and specialist entertainers. And we've convinced ourselves that all the glitz is a "simcha essential". We can armchair critique the president's spend on his home and become frustrated. We could choose, rather, to rethink our own simcha expenditure and become modest and focused.</span></span></div>
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mix-blend-mode: normal; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; perspective: none; pointer-events: auto; position: static; r: 0px; resize: none; right: auto; rx: 0px; ry: 0px; shape-image-threshold: 0; shape-margin: 0px; shape-outside: none; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; 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It would even make sense to share the saving with the newlyweds themselves to help them set up their first home. For now, I'm afraid, our whitewash teams will spin a tale on why "my child can't be the only one to have a simple celebration" and the bills will keep growing.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-57461799222908440752015-05-21T11:34:00.001+02:002015-05-21T11:34:30.325+02:00The unpopular Jewish holiday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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perspective: none; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-image-threshold: 0; shape-margin: 0px; shape-outside: none; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; touch-action: auto; transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px; transform-style: flat; transform: none; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; x: 0px; y: 0px; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I'm composing this post, I'm having a fascinating discussion on social media (and expect it will continue later on Chai) about why Shavuos is such an overlooked holiday. 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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Either way, it's mighty ironic, considering that Shavuos is when the Torah was given and when we became the Jewish nation. Without those two elements, we'd have no Pesach Seder, Kol Nidrei or breaking of the fast. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've always said that the most powerful spiritual opportunities are the ones that are most hidden from view. Someone asked me yesterday what the energy of Shavuos is. You know that the energy of Pesach is liberation and breaking boundaries, the energy of Rosh Hashanah is fresh beginnings, of Yom Kippur forgiveness and so on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And Shavuous? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your knee-jerk answer would probably be "study", seeing as it is the day when the Torah was given. But, it's really a lot more than that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shavuous is about touching G-d's essence. Shavous is when He ripped open the Heavens and revealed his "I" (I am the L-rd, your G-d) to us. And every year on this date, He opens that portal for us again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How do you connect to the energy? Simple. You come to Shul on Sunday and hear the Ten Commandments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can reach lofty spiritual levels (like on Rosh Hashanah) if you put in enough effort. But the essence is is not something we attain, but a gift that He gives us. If we are there at the right moment, we get the gift.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-44646906633337785552015-01-16T12:08:00.001+02:002015-01-16T12:08:45.539+02:00Flight for one<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Flying, especially long-hauls, where you are sardined in between two oversize or over-talkative passengers, can be tedious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I spent a good few hours in the air last year, and each time started my journey with the modern traveler's prayer: "Dear G-d, please let the seat next to me remain empty". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I struck it lucky on a few of the flights, even catching a full row on two international trips, but managed nothing like <a href="https://twitter.com/ohhleary/status/554700216700776449/photo/1">this guy</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earlier this week, Chris O' Leary <i>almost </i>flew solo to New York, after his flight was seriously delayed. Somehow, all the passengers were re-booked onto other flights, except him. When the plane was eventually prepared to depart, O' Leary tweeted that he had the whole plane to himself, but, just then, a second passenger dashed on-board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You have to wonder why Delta would fly a whole 76-seater plane from Cleveland to New York with only two commuters aboard. It turns out, they needed the plane back in New York, passengers or no passengers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Which reminded me of we Jews, living "away from home". One day, we're told, G-d will gather the Jewish people back to Israel and herald in the time of Moshiach. Some of the flights we will take to get there may actually carry only a single passenger. The prophet Isaiah promises, G-d will gather us one by one to take us back home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Only, then it won't be because He needs to get a $100 million plane back to base, but because He truly cares about getting each person where they belong. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-79784648753843777922015-01-11T14:13:00.001+02:002015-01-11T14:13:02.508+02:00Don't pussyfoot around evil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I felt absolutely sick on Friday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had just returned from pre-Shabbos grocery shopping at our local kosher supermarket, when I heard about fellow Jews taken hostage while doing just that in Paris.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't only feel sick. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was livid. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wasn't only angry at the attackers, but at a world that has allowed extremism to go unchecked. How could terrorists feel so emboldened as to shoot up grocery shoppers in the "City of Love", attack coffee-drinkers in Sydney or butcher worshipers at Shul in Jerusalem? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ok, we know that a good portion of the world chooses to remain blissfully blind to the tsunami on our doorstep. More concerning is the way world leaders have adopted a non-committal approach to a serious and rapidly-growing threat, for fear of offending people or, worse yet, being perceived as heavy-handed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's a tough one. Non-violence and democracy are where the world wants to go, so how to handle those who exploit our idealism to further the cause of violence and autocratic control? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday, Jewish communities read in the Torah about Moses and how he had grown up in Pharaoh's home, sheltered from the suffering of his compatriots. Wanting to witness life under slavery firsthand, Moses steps out of the royal palace and straight into the traumatic scene of an Egyptian taskmaster mercilessly beating an Israelite slave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moses darts a look "this way and that", to "see that there was no man", swiftly kills the bully and buries him in the sand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's the "perfect crime"- no witnesses, no body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or, so it would appear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On the following day, Moses heads out again. This time he encounters two bickering Israelites. Moses walks in on them, just as the one raises his hand, ready to strike his adversary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moses loudly rebukes him, "Wicked one, why do you strike your friend?". Hand still raised, the perpetrator turns to Moses and says, "So, do you now plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Exposed! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moses apparently hadn't pulled off the perfect crime after all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, here's the problem: Moses had killed a man just one day earlier. Surely he is a hypocrite for calling this guy- who hand't yet landed a blow- "wicked".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But Moses didn't become G-d's chosen leader and custodian of the Torah because he was an ordinary fellow. And the Torah doesn't just tell us stories for dramatic effect. Moses was a deeply spiritual and insightful man, and the stories about him are meant to teach us lessons for life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Moses looks "this way and that and sees there is no man", he isn't looking to ensure that nobody is watching what he. At that moment, he looks deep into the Egyptian to see if "in the man" there might remain something of value, a spark of potential goodness that might warrant sparing his life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moses finds none. This man is pure evil, a rare specimen with no chance of redemption. Such a person will only harm society, so such a person needs to be removed from society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moses reminds us that evil cannot be tolerated, or analyzed, or understood, or contextualized. It needs to be eradicated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Against evil you act decisively and efficiently. You don't worry who may be watching or what they may say about you, because eliminating evil is noble and moral and something others should emulate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The tough question is how to identify evil. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nobody wants to lash out indiscriminately nor sink to the depravity of our enemies. To remove evil, you need to remain objective and clinical. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moses teaches us that lesson in his second Egypt encounter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It sounds like Moses was hotheaded to accuse a man of "wickedness" before he had so much as hit his opponent. It's dangerous to judge people based on our perception of their intentions, without facts to support them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the other hand, waiting for the criminal to commit a crime before confronting him is more dangerous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moses reminds us that we live for a purpose. Our purpose is to serve G-d by making the world a better, kinder, more generous and more holy place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Everything that G-d gives us- our health, talents, finances and so on- is to be used to achieve higher purpose for ourselves and our world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">G-d gives you a hand so that you can help an old lady across the road, share a coin with a beggar or wave at someone to make them feel worthwhile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Should you imagine that your hand is meant to be a tool for violence, you've missed the point. Imagining that you live to harm others is rebellion against G-d. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No matter the rationalization, an ideology that encourages violence is evil. Standing up firmly and unapologetically against such evil is noble. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those who dedicate their lives to destruction should be destroyed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those who dedicate their lives to fighting evil should never hesitate to act.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Perhaps world leaders and law-enforcement officials would do well to study yesterday's Torah portion.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-56392213389863822422014-08-14T18:36:00.001+02:002014-08-14T18:36:10.878+02:00Get off Facebook!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"OMG!", as they say these days. This whole King David vice headboy story has gotten completely out of control and it's all our fault! I mean he was completely out of line, and his behaviour raises serious questions about the education that our children are getting. But, we, the ordinary members of the Jewish community, are the ones who splashed that kaffiyeh photo- accompanied by rantings and accusations- all over the internet. We alerted the media and we baited our detractors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We need to pause- as we stand in the virtual ruins- to reflect. Everything a Jew sees or hears is meant to be a lesson, according to the Baal Shem Tov. What a whole group of Jews does, especially just before the most introspective time of the year, certainly must teach us something important.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For a start, we don't all appreciate the power of social media. Someone once asked the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe what spiritual lesson one could learn from a telephone. He responded: "What is said in one place will be heard in another". Chassidim always said that the spoken word is impactful, but the printed word is eternal. Social media is irretractable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In plain English, once you've posted something, it's everywhere, forever in your name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of Judaism's greatest spiritual principles is that the mind must guide and control the heart. Most online postings are emotion-based, which leaves them wide open to being misguided, misplaced or misinterpreted. We've all blurted things out and regretted them afterwards. Unintended insults or faux pas can be corrected face to face, but written (or actually typed) words will often read differently to the reader than they did to the writer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Think before you post. Is your motivation to make a difference or to release frustration? If it's the latter, rather put it in an email to your like-minded friends. Rabbi Akivah taught that the buffer of wisdom is silence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you post, think about who you are posting to or about. We were all seventeen once. We all did hotheaded things that we thought were smart at the time, but now hope nobody will ever uncover.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luckily for us, we didn't have social media to expose and eternally shame us in those days. Real haters out there, like public figures who have called for death to the Jews, deserve to be exposed, discredited and dragged through the appropriate legal procedures. But, young (and naive) idealists should be allowed the dignity of discretion, and disciplined by the appropriate bodies. Mass-attacking a teen whose ideologies don't match yours is more likely to alienate than to rehabilitate him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even if a public figure says stupid (not inciting) things, we gain nothing by attacking them. Public personalities receive criticising mails all day long. Best case scenario, yours will be lost in the crowd and will achieve nothing. Worst case, your target will villify you publicly. Unless you have rapport with someone, don't attempt to attack them. Certainly don't be disappointed if they don't change their views because of your pestering. The Torah says only rebuke someone who you believe may listen to you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our biggest failing as a community is broader than these technicalities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are reactionary. Someone provokes us, we take the bait. We respond and they blow our response out of proportion. Then we either fuel more anti- senitiment or simply look stupid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week's parsha tells us that the first setp towards decline is not standing proud of who we are. We need to be proactive and get our story out there. We need to remind the world of G-d's promise of Israel to the Jews. We underestimate how many people believe that the Bible is true. We need to remind them of that truth, because they do consider it more compelling than CNN. We need to be proud of our heritage, the morality and compassion that is part of our DNA. We need not be ashamed to call evil by its name. And we need to be proud of our people, our country and its army, who are not perfect, but are way ahead of the curve.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jewish history is a repetitive refrain of Jews empowering their enemies by reacting rashly, rather than by following the guidance of our timeless Torah. We have an opportunity to act differently at this time. Please G-d, our appropriate behaviour will draw down His blessings for the world to wake up to reality.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-36099733662027991622014-07-11T16:10:00.001+02:002014-07-11T16:10:36.709+02:00Why does G-d make it difficult?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ok, here's one of the oldest questions ever: Why does it have to be so tough? Yes, I know that they say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but why do we have things that almost kill us, just to "make us stronger". Surely, G-d, in His infinite kindness could find softer, sweeter ways to send us blessings or means of personal growth?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All those tests and challenges we face in life are called "nisyonos" in Judaism. Some are the obstacles that interfere with us living a happy, comfortable life. Others are the challenges that stymie our efforts to become better people; things like temptation or character flaws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before living on earth, our souls didn't have to face off with the nonsense that we deal with daily down here. Our souls basked in Divine radiance and generally led a happy, spiritually aware life. Jewish mysticism teaches us, though, that the Divine access our souls enjoy is limited. It belongs to the hieararchy of spiritual flow, where each level of existence gets a calibrated dose of spiritual light- and nothing more. True, in heaven there's more light than in Joburg, but it's a fixed rate of energy that can't be changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Living as humans (with all our foibles), however, presents both challenge and opportunity. The challenges result from the <em>lack</em> of Divine awareness in our world. But, G-d undertakes to help us with our spiritual progress. In heaven, where spiritual growth comes easy, He doesn't invest too much to help us, because we don't need much help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the daily uphill of trying to be a decent person in a less than decent world, G-d has to "pull out" extra spiritual boosters to help us along. While in Heaven, the spiritual backup available is predermined and static, on Earth, it is relative to our efforts and can range way up, beyond what's available in heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Simply put, G-d throws challenges at us, because they force us to dig deep and uncover resources that we wouldn't have known we have. When we dig within, He then boosts us with some hidden resources of His own, allowing us to access Divine energy that's way over our pray-grade. G-d doesn't send us challenges to stump us, but to spur us on.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-73110410124139338632014-06-25T12:07:00.000+02:002014-06-25T12:07:50.776+02:00Get (a) life!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you ever thought that chicken-swinging at <em style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 0px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 0px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-transform-origin: 0px 0px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 128); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; cursor: default; direction: ltr; display: inline; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;">kapporas </em>was bizarre, the Talmud says that the <em style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 0px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 0px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-transform-origin: 0px 0px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; 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kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;">Parah Adumah</em>- or Red Heifer- is the most bizarre of all Jewish rituals. It involves finding a perfectly red cow; more than two black hairs on it would disqualify it. No sooner do you find this cow, you burn it (and, trust me, its ashes don't come out red, so what difference did the colour make anyway?). Then you would have mixed some of those ashes into water and you would have had the only concoction that could have been used in Temple times to purify a person from the impurity contracted through contact with a dead body.</span></span></div>
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overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Funny thing, though, the kohen who sprinkled the ash-water would then become impure and would have to undergo a purification process of his own. Even King Solomon, known as the smartest person to ever have lived, said that he was stymied by the Parah Adumah. The only person to whom G-d ever offered a glimpse into the meaning behind this process was Moses. And he never shared what he was told.</span></span></div>
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He had to prepare the first one ever used. Tradition has it that some of the original ashes that Moshe had processed had to be preserved and recycled into the ashes of every subsequent Parah Adumah. The Torah even says that the Parah Adumah will always be named after Moshe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-mask: none 0% 0% / auto repeat border-box border-box; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 0px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 0px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-transform-origin: 0px 0px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 128); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; color: navy; cursor: default; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, what's Moshe's special connection with this weird mitzvah?</span></span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-mask: none 0% 0% / auto repeat border-box border-box; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 235.5px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 63px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-transform-origin: 235.5px 63px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(72, 72, 72); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; cursor: default; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(72, 72, 72) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;">
<span style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-mask: none 0% 0% / auto repeat border-box border-box; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 0px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 0px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-transform-origin: 0px 0px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 128); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; color: navy; cursor: default; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moshe was perplexed by death. He couldn't fathom how Hashem would allow such an irreversible negative energy into His world. But, when Hashem introduced Moshe to the Red Heifer, he came to realise that even death can be "cured". Sure, in those days, it was only the person contaminated by contact with death who was cured, but the process carries the promise that one day death will be permanently undone. And that was very important to Moshe, because he represented life, endurance and eternity.</span></span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-mask: none 0% 0% / auto repeat border-box border-box; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 235.5px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 63px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-transform-origin: 235.5px 63px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(72, 72, 72); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; cursor: default; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(72, 72, 72) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;">
<span style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-mask: none 0% 0% / auto repeat border-box border-box; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 0px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 0px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-transform-origin: 0px 0px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 128); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; color: navy; cursor: default; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Mishkan that Moshe built was never destroyed, only hidden away before the Temple was built. The ashes that Moshe prepared for the original Parah Adumah were kept for all future generations, in keeping with his attitude of enduring contribution. Moshe's teachings have been studied globally by religious people, not only Jews, forever. The Talmud even suggests that Moshe did not die, but relocated to serve G-d on another plane. So, Moshe would naturally resonate with a process that defies death, because his aim was to do just that- hence, his special affinity for the Red Heifer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-mask: none 0% 0% / auto repeat border-box border-box; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 0px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 0px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-transform-origin: 0px 0px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 128); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; color: navy; cursor: default; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-mask: none 0% 0% / auto repeat border-box border-box; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 235.5px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 63px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); -webkit-transform-origin: 235.5px 63px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(72, 72, 72); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; cursor: default; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; float: none; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(72, 72, 72) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;">
<span style="-webkit-animation-play-state: running; -webkit-animation: none 0s ease 0s 1 normal none running; -webkit-app-region: no-drag; -webkit-appearance: none; -webkit-backface-visibility: visible; -webkit-background-clip: border-box; -webkit-background-composite: source-over; -webkit-background-origin: padding-box; -webkit-background-size: auto; -webkit-border-fit: border; -webkit-border-image: none; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-decoration-break: slice; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex-group: 1; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-lines: single; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: 1; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-reflect: none; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-clip-path: none; -webkit-column-break-after: auto; -webkit-column-break-before: auto; -webkit-column-break-inside: auto; -webkit-column-count: auto; -webkit-column-gap: normal; -webkit-column-rule-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-column-rule-style: none; -webkit-column-rule-width: 0px; -webkit-column-span: none; -webkit-column-width: auto; -webkit-filter: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; -webkit-highlight: none; -webkit-hyphenate-character: auto; -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced; -webkit-line-break: auto; -webkit-locale: auto; -webkit-margin-after-collapse: collapse; -webkit-margin-before-collapse: collapse; -webkit-mask-box-image-outset: 0px; -webkit-mask-box-image-repeat: stretch; -webkit-mask-box-image-slice: 0 fill; -webkit-mask-box-image-source: none; -webkit-mask-box-image-width: auto; -webkit-mask-composite: source-over; -webkit-mask-size: auto; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: 0px; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: 0px; -webkit-perspective: none; -webkit-print-color-adjust: economy; -webkit-rtl-ordering: logical; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.180392); -webkit-text-combine: none; -webkit-text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-text-emphasis-position: over; -webkit-text-emphasis-style: none; -webkit-text-orientation: vertical-right; -webkit-text-security: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-transform-origin: 0px 0px; -webkit-transform-style: flat; -webkit-transform: none; -webkit-transition: all 0s ease 0s; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-tb; align-content: stretch; align-items: stretch; align-self: stretch; alignment-baseline: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-blend-mode: normal; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; baseline-shift: baseline; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-image-outset: 0px; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 128); bottom: auto; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: content-box; buffered-rendering: auto; caption-side: top; clear: none; clip-path: none; clip-rule: nonzero; clip: auto; color-interpolation-filters: linearrgb; color-interpolation: srgb; color-rendering: auto; color: navy; cursor: default; direction: ltr; dominant-baseline: auto; empty-cells: show; fill-opacity: 1; fill-rule: nonzero; fill: rgb(0, 0, 0); filter: none; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex: 0 1 auto; flood-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); flood-opacity: 1; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; glyph-orientation-horizontal: 0deg; glyph-orientation-vertical: auto; image-rendering: auto; justify-content: flex-start; kerning: 0px; left: auto; lighting-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style: disc outside none; margin: 0px; marker-end: none; marker-mid: none; marker-start: none; mask-type: luminance; mask: none; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; object-fit: fill; object-position: 50% 50%; opacity: 1; order: 0; outline-offset: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 128) none 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; page-break-inside: auto; paint-order: fill stroke markers; pointer-events: auto; position: static; resize: none; right: auto; shape-rendering: auto; speak: normal; stop-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); stop-opacity: 1; stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-dashoffset: 0px; stroke-linecap: butt; stroke-linejoin: miter; stroke-miterlimit: 4; stroke-opacity: 1; stroke-width: 1px; stroke: none; tab-size: 8; table-layout: auto; text-anchor: start; text-overflow: clip; text-rendering: auto; text-shadow: none; top: auto; transition: all 0s ease 0s; unicode-bidi: normal; vector-effect: none; visibility: visible; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; writing-mode: lr-tb; z-index: auto; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next week is Gimmel Tammuz, the day when we commemorate the Rebbe's yarzteit. Back in 1994 the bets were on that Chabad would wither and become insignificant without a Rebbe who could give rousing public addresses and mail responses to letters seeking guidance and blessing. Chabad's meteoric growth in the last twenty years has defied the death that the experts foretold for it. But, that is also no surprise, considering that the Rebbe was fixated with Moshiach, who will bring death to its knees. Like Moshe's, the Rebbe's teachings and deeds live on and will endure all the way until they achieve their purpose of "swallowing death into eternal life" with the imminent arrival of Moshiach.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-16085840634973196072014-04-03T22:21:00.002+02:002014-04-03T22:21:45.860+02:00Consistency v. Creativity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You may find it ironic that the Lunar calendar was introduced by G-d to the Jewish people in the month of Nissan. Nissan is the month that has to suit the seasons, which means that, in the one Jewish month that has to match the solar cycle, G-d presented us with a calendar that follows the Moon. Christians and Muslims seem to have it easier, as their calendars follow the Sun and Moon respectively. Only the Jews would insist on having the best (or the trickiest) of both worlds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Jew cannot live without a calendar. We need to know when Shabbos is, when to invite the <em>gantze mishpocha </em>for the Seder and when to book seats for Kol Nidrei. It's no surprise that the first mitzvah our nation was given was to establish a calendar, because without one Jews can't be Jewish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seeing as the calendar is so central, the specific design of the calendar must carry a fundamental message for us. The Sun and Moon operate very differently. The Sun is predictable; constant. The Moon looks different every night. Some nights it is large and bright, others it is merely a sliver and there are times when we don't see it at all. The Hebrew word for month, <em>chodesh</em>, is derived from the root "chadash", meaning "<em>new</em>", because we start each month as the Moon starts its cycle afresh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Life is a Sun/Moon mixture. Some things in life are like the Sun, constant and predictable, others are volatile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Jew is a Sun/Moon person. We are expected to have certain reliable Jewish commitments like davening and studying each day, eating kosher or wearing Tefillin. Such consistency keeps us Jewish. But, we also need inspiration and freshness from time to time- an awakening like the New Moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yom Tov offers a chance for that kind of freshness. Yom Tov allows us to become excited again about our Judaism, to inject life into the cycle of observance that can simply become habit. Yom Tov is when we should be at Shul more than usual. It is time to study something we've never explored before. Yom Tov allows us the chance to get a fresh start on elements of our Judaism that may have become staid.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-59808495975091032862014-03-08T21:47:00.001+02:002014-03-09T16:45:50.857+02:00Should yeshivah students join the IDF ?<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fsADqkXyALk" width="420"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-19427909569457530252014-02-20T22:30:00.000+02:002014-02-20T22:30:05.802+02:00Got talent?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do you have a talent? Can you juggle? Play a musical instrument? Were you perhaps one of those double-jointed kids who could bend your elbow and twist your tongue? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe your talent is in setting up cracker business deals or sharing empathy with people who have been traumatised. Each of us has talent, be it flashy or subtle, entertaining or uplifting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Society only celebrates talent once it hits the silver screen or the Top Ten. Idols Runner Up or Wimbledon Quarter Final Champion won't earn you a beeline to stardom. In a society where only the flashiest, fastest and funniest hit the Big Time, most people barely recognise the talents that they have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your athletic ability could win you a gold medal, your voice a Grammy or your brain a Nobel prize. But there is no major finger-prize for knitting. Besides, if there were one, what would we call it if? The Golden needles? The Yarnies?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ah, but the Jews, only we would celebrate knitting. The Torah celebrates the skills of its crochet team. It's for good reason, though, what these women did has probably never been replicated. While the rest of the original Jews fashioned spectacular golden utensils and hammered together towering cedar boards, a group of needle-able women got to weaving the goat hair hangings that would cover the Mishkan. Nu, so they knitted goat's hair. Big deal. The catch is that they wove these tapestries before removing the hair from the goats. Weaving a tapesty on a moving target takes exceptional skill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You must be wondering why these women chose the most inconvenient way imaginable to produce a tapestry. Their artwork would surely have looked just as good if it had been produced the conventional way. But, these ladies recognised that they had a unique talent, and they figured that if you have a talent, you should use it. Where better to use it, but in the service of G-d? After all, He's the one who had gifted them with this skill in the first place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like those proficient women of the Bible, each of us a unique talent. G-d gave it to us so that we would use it. And, once we're using it, it would only be right to use it also to serve His purpose, His temple and His people.<span _fcktemp="1"></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-18444726715632473032014-02-07T15:44:00.002+02:002014-02-07T15:44:29.331+02:00Living on the edge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, everything in the Torah is meant to be a lesson for us. If it had no take-home message, the Torah would not have mentioned it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You have to wonder, then, what could you learn from the uniforms that the kohanim used to wear in the Temple. The whole Torah portion this week focuses on the four garments that a simple kohen wore and the eight that the high priest wore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Big deal. I mean, you may find the blue tunic or sparkling breastplate interesting, but the real question remains: "Will knowing how long the kohen's belt was really make me a better person?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's look at one item from the chief kohen's wardrobe and the real-life lesson that it shares. <span style="color: navy;">When the kohen gadol wore his special garments, he represented the entire Jewish people, not only as their spokesperson, but even by wearing clothes that represented different types of Jews.</span> One garment that the kohen gadol had to wear was called the "me'il", a long blue cloak that had bells and pomegranates on its hem. The designs at the bottom of that cloak, millimetres off the ground, represent the Jews on the fringe- the disaffected, disenchanted and the disiniterested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We may sometimes feel tempted to write off or criticise the Jews who are "empty" of Judaism. Yet, the Talmud insists that even the most "empty" Jew is full of good deeds as a pomegranate is full of seeds. The pomegranates dangling from the <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222;">edge</span> of the high priest's clothes remind us that there are no "empty" Jews- and that every Jew comes into the Holy of Holies somehow.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-906421750401077852014-01-24T16:37:00.001+02:002014-01-24T16:37:13.921+02:00Don't stay out of trouble!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Hey, at least I didn'<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222;">t</span> do what <strong>HE</strong> did" or "Well, I haven'<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222;">t</span> hurt anyone" or "It's not like I've joined another religion". Our minds procure a colourful range of explanations for why it's good enough to just do nothing wrong. When you live in a country with daily headlines about high-level corruption and violent crime, it becomes tempting to believe that you are good person simply because you haven'<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222;">t</span> done much wrong.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've often heard people use the argument- usually while trying to convince someone to become more religious- that a non-religious person is really quite religious, just without knowing it. "Have you served an idol today? Murdered anyone? Practiced witchcraft?" they'll say, following quickly with, "Nu, see how many mitzvos you <strong>already</strong> do!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Life isn'<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">t</span> really about how much depravation you dodge. We're meant to be proactive, to add light to the world, not only to avoid darkness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Living a life of trouble-avoidance is a safe bet, but doesn'<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">t</span> earn us much. G-d says that if we <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">don</span>'<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">t</span> serve idols, He will bless us with goodness. You know how it is, sometimes blessings <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">don</span>'<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">t</span> work, sometimes we <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">don</span>'<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222;">t</span>even see them when they hit us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dynamic doing good requires more focus and effort, but it reaps greater rewards. When talking about the active performance of mitzvos, G-d<strong>promises</strong> us protection, health and succees. That's no longer just a blessing, that's an assurance from the one Being who you can rely upon to keep a promise.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-87536791338626323062014-01-07T23:03:00.003+02:002014-01-07T23:03:47.561+02:00Stop publishing matric results<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 2013 matric results were released today and were available in various newspapers and online. Perhaps in the 60's people need to scour the papers to discover their matric results. But, we're living in the 21st century, people, and there are now at least half a dozen tech-savvy, private ways to find your marks. I don't get why the tradition remains for the national papers to splash the names of every matriculant who made it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finished Grade 12 before the age of SMS and websites, yet I remember feeling uncomfortable at having everyone's results published for all the <i>yentas </i>to see. It's not that I was afraid of people seeing my maths or history results, because I was headed to the rabbinate regardless. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But, I winced at some of my peers having their "just passed" news broadcast for all to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In those days, I felt for the guys who weren't the academics, but would be judged against a yardstick that they weren't wired to achieve. Some of them graduated school <i>mentsch</i> <i>cum laude</i>, but there was no column in the papers for that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week, I raised this issue on <a href="http://www.chaifm.com/index.php/line-up/weekday-shows-6am-6pm/12pm-6pm/fresh-thinking-thur-2pm">my radio show</a>, in person and on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rabbishishler/posts/10153688467385383?comment_id=412083095&notif_t=comment_mention">social media</a>. I fielded a wide spectrum of opinions- from those who feel that publishing marks motivates students (in that case, we should surely publish the results of medical and law school as well, no?) to those who felt it placed undue pressure on kids who aren't top academics. I'm with the second group. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have some serious reservations about the matric-mark-madness that steals front page news and radio headlines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong, I'm all for celebrating achievement. Students who sweat blood for two years and crack top grades deserve their piece of limelight as much as their parents deserve the <i>nachas</i>. But, what about the kids who don't make it? And are marks the only measure of school achievement that we should celebrate?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Firstly, getting good marks doesn't guarantee that you've gained knowledge and much less so that you've learned </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">invaluable</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">skills like critical thinking. I know people who burned their textbooks after each exam, which made a clear statement that no school rote-learning would accompany them into adulthood. My matric class produced some great religious leaders, businessmen and even a rocket scientist. Most of us didn't use the matric syllabus to get us there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week, one fellow shared how he had failed an exam because his answers, although correct, didn't match the way they had been set out in the lecturer's notes. Now, there's a sound educational tactic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was schooled on the Talmudic model, which is open-season for questions and debates and nothing is so just because it says so. We were encouraged to challenge our teachers and spent most of the day studying in pairs, which means we argued over just about every line of the information we studied. We weren't taught <i>information</i>; we were taught <i>thinking</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm afraid that making the goal at school the marks you get might undermine the point of education. If a student knows how to present the "required answers" (thanks to having worked on "past papers" and having been coached in answering styles that address "what the examiner is looking for"), we don't yet know whether or not the student knows how to use her brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And, even if we assume that the system does get the students to think, is that the end-goal of education?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Education that motivate youngsters to achieve good marks teaches them nothing at all. I have no doubt that there have been abusive husbands, dishonest stockbrokers and infamous criminals who achieved excellent marks at school. Schools are surely meant to cultivate minds, actually, cultivate <b>people</b>, not to push results. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Education isn't intended for just for brains, but for humans. At the end of an educational process, the <b>whole</b> person should emerge improved, not only their intellect. Parents and teachers should partner to instill in children values, respect, tolerance and kindness at the same time that they share information with them. Schools that churn out academic stars who don't look up from their smartphones to greet their parents, have no clear definition of integrity and have not been trained to share with or tolerate others (like the less "smart" members of their own class) have failed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope that next year sees the matric results limited to student-number-protected access on the <a href="http://www.education.gov.za/MatricResults/ExamResults/tabid/175/Default.aspx">Education Ministry's website</a>. Let the papers find something else to sell in early January. And how refreshing it would be to have schools boast about graduates who have been personally enriched, who are socially responsible and balanced people, rather than just showcasing sharp-minds. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-81194698405957646032013-12-20T16:33:00.003+02:002013-12-20T16:33:39.971+02:00Card fraud<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The text-notification from our bank immediately caught my eye. "No, I had not withdrawn cash from an ATM 30km from my house at midnight," I told the agent on the fraud hotline. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Apparently the checkout-lady at a store my wife frequents decided to ring up her own end-of-year bonus by skimming some of the cards she had run. Most were probably credit cards, but ours is a debit card with a strict daily limit, thank G-d.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After a string of attempts at the ATM, the card thieves only managed to squeeze out petty cash from our account. I'm guessing they were frustrated at their meager-pickings, but stealing from a rabbi doesn't often net a large haul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had to immediately cancel our cards, and endure the process of getting new ones and changing PINs and passwords. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posting the incident on social media, I was horrified to discover just how many of my friends </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">around the world </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">have fallen prey to this kind of fraud. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have felt the sting of violent crime before, so I am relieved to have been passively relieved of my cash in this instance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What probably happened is: My wife was at the till, one staff helping her offload her groceries and re-pack them, the teller ringing up her purchases. In a blink, while my wife was duly distracted, the seasoned criminals must have zipped her card through a skimming device. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Boom! Your card is cloned without you noticing anything untoward. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank G-d, my bank texts transaction notifications. Thank G-d, I actually read the text that exposed the fraud, as soon as I received it. Overlooking that notification could have been an expensive error.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Minor life events often reveal insight into the bigger picture of life. And we always need to be alert to read the messages when they arrive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each of us comes to Life with a purpose to fulfill. As we go along, we're meant to stock up on goodness, kindness, study and personal growth and fill our soul's "bank account". Should we lose focus, for even a moment, we could lose much of what we've spent time achieving. There is no "stagnant" in life- if you pause from growing, you can expect to lose something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Victims of card fraud (like the victims of any theft) often feel incensed at the injustice of how someone so easily nabbed your hard-earned cash. It's unfair that you should invest time and energy, only to have your earnings picked effortlessly by a miscreant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's not only money we have to work hard to achieve. We need to work at least as hard to develop our character and healthy traits, and to get in touch with our souls. It may be tempting to find someone we admire and just try to clone their attitudes, philosophies and ideals. We could regurgitate their sayings, mimic their gestures and lecture about their worldview. But, there is no value in copycat personal growth. The only meaningful way to develop into a better, more sensitive, more spiritual person is to slog through your own personal journey, with its victories and failures until you become the only person you are expected to be: You, at your best.</span><br />
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Whenever they'd ask me that on my teenage travels abroad, I'd solemnly nod and describe the daily peril of picking our way through the jungle to get to school. Recently, my kids sent photos to their cousins from a safari our family had taken. They captioned the pic of a herd of elephants standing on a dirt road "Reason we were late for school today".<br />
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Our family's playful teasing about wild encounters have been peppered with real first-person adventures in SA's various game parks. Our family has <a href="http://rabbishishler.blogspot.com/2007/04/whos-afraid-of-rhinoceros.html">been charged by a rhino</a>, driven in an open Land Rover through a massive herd of African Buffaloes, and has screeched off in reverse to avoid a head-on with a temperamental bull elephant. Those escapades had all occurred miles from home on safari. Joburg's streets hadn't threatened our kids with much more than panhandlers and annoying windscreen-washers.<br />
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Until Friday.<br />
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It wasn't a lion or lumbering elephant on Linden road, but we did have a very real and very scary visit from the wild.<br />
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Friday was the <a href="http://www.jewishsandton.com/library/article_cdo/aid/102698/jewish/10-Tevet.htm">fast of Tevet</a>, when Jews recall the first time enemy armies- the Babylonians- surrounded the walls of Jerusalem. As our community members began to arrive for the special afternoon fast-day service, an uninvited visitor pranced onto the wall of our temple.<br />
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I missed the action, which I'm quite miffed about, but an adult baboon arrived at our Chabad House, just in time for Mincha. (In future, I intend to be much more cautious about broadcasting that we need "one more for the minyan").<br />
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My seven- and eleven-year-old daughters were downstairs in the function hall, preparing for Shabbos. I was upstairs in Shul, preparing for the afternoon service. I didn't know my daughters were downstairs, they didn't know I was upstairs- and none of us knew there was a primate scaling the wall.<br />
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My daughters enjoy animals- from a very safe distance. A whimpering chihuahua would send them scampering for safety. You can only imagine their terror when a fully grown baboon leaped into the parking lot.<br />
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The girls panicked.<br />
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The baboon panicked more.<br />
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In seconds, the ape had run across our property, clambered over a wall and disappeared.<br />
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I was quietly studying the Torah portion upstairs in Shul, oblivious. By the time I became aware of the commotion, it was over. Our family spent the rest of the afternoon between Shabbos preparation, ad hoc trauma debriefing and informing all those cousins overseas that we really do have wild animals in the 'burbs.<br />
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Two days later, my kids are still wary of stepping outside alone (the baboon has yet to be caught and returned to the wild) and I've been mulling over the lessons to be gleaned from such an unusual experience.<br />
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Firstly, I was struck by the situation my children had found themselves in: Their ordinary day had rapidly shifted into a terrifying confrontation. They had panicked and had felt vulnerable and unequipped to tackle the problem. Yet, all along, their father had been upstairs. A good lesson in life: Whenever you experience a anxiety or an overwhelming challenge, remember you've got a father upstairs. You only need to do be aware that he is there and let him know that you're in trouble.<br />
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Next, I wondered what had brought the baboon to Shul. My community over Shabbos unanimously replied that it could only have been the food; he certainly would not have come for the sermon. They weren't far off, because it seems that the bewildered baboon had been scavenging through the trash for food. (Nobody had informed him it was a fast day).<br />
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Chabad philosophy teaches that we each have a "Divine" soul and an "Animal" Soul. While the "Animal" only relates to and chases things it believes will bring it benefit, the "Divine" within us inspires us to be transcendent and altruistic.<br />
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Impure or negative energy, when compared to holy or positive energy, is described as an ape compared to a human. Apes look quite human (it's amusing to watch primate families interact, because they look so familiar) and share a whole lot of our DNA. But, they don't have the capacity to shift their nature, use abstract imagination or to experience altruism. Old baboon couldn't stay at Shul, even if he had wanted to, because to be part of the community, you need to be a giver, not a scavenger.<br />
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Lastly- and my daughters do not believe me on this one- the ape was more afraid of the girls than they were of him. A group of my friends and I were once hiking in the Drakensberg mountains when a troop of territorial baboons cut us off and began threatening us. Initially, we thought they'd move aside and let us pass, but when they kept inching forward and started baring their menacing incisors, we backed down and returned home. An adult human is no match for an adult baboon.<br />
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But, this guy wasn't in his natural habitat; he was lost in our neighbourhood. He was disoriented and afraid and he darted at the hint of a wide-eyed girl's scream. Which is a good lesson too. Humans need to live in civilized areas if they are to be protected from the forces of the wild. And that means spiritually too. If you make sure to live in a spiritually healthy environment, the feral forces can't harm you. But, if you wander into a spiritually unruly area, you can't be guaranteed your safety.<br />
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Simply put: Come to Shul regularly, the <i>vilde chayos </i>won't bother you here.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Sunday, I took my kids to join the local Chabad Menorah car-parade. With Chanukah so early this year, and nobody having migrated yet to the coast, we expected a healthy turnout. Sure enough, dozens of vehicles lined up, got decked with roof-top Menorahs and headed out onto Joburg's main streets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Music blaring, with police escort, our Carnukkah procession revved up in a very Jewish neighbourhood. Passing drivers waved and cheered their support for Chanukah on the streets. Jews stuck at the intersections that we blocked smiled and <i>kvelled </i>at the procession.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Soon, we were out of the Jewish area, headed towards our destination at the iconic Sandton City mall. This should have been the doldrum stretch of the ride,with the only <i>landsleit</i> in sight being the drivers in our cavalcade. Our position in the entourage was right in front of the music truck, so, between that and the sirens of the escorting patrol cars, I wouldn't say that our drive was quiet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As we passed pedestrians, they also waved and cheered us on. I'm talking about non-Jews; locals, most of whom had surely never heard of Chanukah before and had no idea of how to pronounce it. We were greeted with cheery happy-all-sorts-of-things greetings not vaguely associated with our holiday, but appreciated nonetheless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's really no surprise that bored bystanders waved, smiled and yodeled for us. This is Africa, where the locals are mostly friendly folks who love some rhythm and delight in unexpected street celebrations. This was free entertainment and they loved it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, when we snaked past the vibrant Melrose Arch and obstructed three car-fulls of new-money youngsters, I expected the mood to sour. Joburg drivers are notoriously impatient. The fancier the car, the more impatient the driver. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I waited for the glares, the revving engines, the grumbling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Instead, all three cars whooped "Happy Chanukah" (they could even pronounce it)! They air-punched and thumbs-upped and clapped to the music, wide grins on their faces. Our inspiring parade was instantly more uplifting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Right there, on Corlett Drive, the Chanukah story came alive again. Jews, the minority, standing proud for Judaism and the world around them feeling brighter for it.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00720675278528775062noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402192.post-2144091354546177142013-11-28T10:00:00.000+02:002013-11-28T22:16:43.269+02:00Do the bad guys win?<div class="text1">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Movie cliches dictate that the bad guys are always stronger and better organised than the heroes. For most of the plot, the villains look poised to conquer the world until- just in the nick of time- a social outcast with just the right combinations of mazal and skill pulls off a perfect sequence of tricks that tips the scales, sends the villains packing and saves the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With the right agent, the Maccabees could have raked in royalties (or plagiarism suits) for generations now. Hero/ villain movies are all just variations of the Chanukah tale. That whole one-guy-takes-down-auto-weapons-packing-global-crime-syndicate-with-his-bare-hands genre is Maccabee through and through. Read the Chanukah prayer, it's all there: "The mighty into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few, the wicked into the hands of the righteous". Basically, the good guys defy the odds and win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ah, but there is one part that Hollywood hasn't picked up on. Chanukah is also the time that the "impure were delivered into the hands of the pure". Goodbye martial arts, this is now spiritual conflict we're talking about. You know, the kind that plays out inside our heads and is much more difficult to win than a bar brawl or street scuffle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spiritual conflicts work like a see-saw, when one force rises, the other must fall. You'll know this from your own experiences- on the days that you feel inspired, no distraction pulls you away from your focus. But, when you're feeling dry, scintillating spirituality doesn't raise your eyebrow. Get stuck in that rut for long enough and the "pure" side of life slips far out of sight. You start to feel like you'll never be inspired again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What a frustrating vicious cycle to get caught up in. You don't feel inspired, so you have no motivation to get up and do the things that may inspire you. So you feel less inspired. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By rights, once you're getting sucked down in that blah spiral, there should be no way to come up for air. After all, how can you inspire yourself to inspire yourself?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The real miracle of Chanukah is not so much the "good guys come out tops" story (you can catch that on DSTV). The big deal of Chanukah is that the "pure" found a way to displace the "impure"; the soul managed to drag itself out of the mire of lethargy. The light was able to shine again through the darkness. That's Chanukah. It celebrates the promise that the most uninspired of us can flip our "on switch" whenever we choose to, even if we're convinced that the inspiration we want can never be found, and if it is found, it can never last. Chanukah says beating bad guys is impressive, but the real goal is to reignite our personal Menorah.</span></div>
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