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Leonard Grunstein

Jun 15, 2018, 8:35 AM

A Tale of Two Households

It was a time of wisdom; it was a time of folly. It was a study in contrasts, as two individuals emerged and had a profound influence, one positive and the other negative, on the fate of others. One awesome...

Jun 9, 2018, 1:11 AM

Parshat Shelach: Taking time to see the World

This week, we read Parshat Shelach. Moshe sends twelve spies to the land of Canaan. Forty days later they return, carrying a cluster of grapes, a pomegranate and a fig, to report on a lush and bountiful land. But,...

William Hamilton

Jun 8, 2018, 6:16 PM

Remembering the plot

“Distractions can be our biggest problem and our lifesaver” a friend said to me this week. “When considering the news of the day, distractions lead us astray. Their allure causes us to veer from the essential toward the...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jun 8, 2018, 6:07 PM

The anniversary of the scouts’ journey begins on Tuesday

In Parshat Shlach, Bamidbar 13:25 we read: “They (the scouts) returned from searching the land, at the end of 40 days.” Rashi asks: But is not the land 400x400 parsaot (a parsa is about 2.2 miles) and the average person’s traveling...

Jun 7, 2018, 2:20 PM

Seeing what isn't there

Illustrative: Tzitzit tassels with threads dyed in tekhelet blue produced from Murex trunculus snails (courtesy of Ptil Tekhelet/Eugene Weisberg)

7 dangerous distorted ways of thinking that cognitive behavioral therapy can help prevent (Shelach)

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Jun 7, 2018, 11:25 AM

Parashat Shelach: Speaking Lashon Hara about the World

They spread an report about the land which they had scouted, telling the children of Israel, "The land we passed through to explore is a land that consumes its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Jun 5, 2018, 10:07 PM

Shlach: A Father’s Responsibilities

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -George Herbert The people of Israel had just been punished with a decree of forty years of wandering in the desert. After the people’s lack of faith following the spies evil report...

Jun 5, 2018, 7:30 AM

What Didn’t They See?

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend - Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost It is true you cannot tell a book by its cover. Appearances sometimes deceive. And sometimes it is our ability to comprehend that which limits...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 4, 2018, 10:45 PM

Judaism and Science

Rashi tells us that Reuel is Jethro (Numbers 10:29). He wants to go home and Moses pleads with him to stay with the Jews. One of his arguments to Jethro is: You have been our eyes (Numbers 10:31). A...

Jun 3, 2018, 8:33 AM

The Tetris Effect

My Tetris Effect Moment I was at an airport in Texas waiting for a shuttle to take me to my hotel. When a white bus pulled up with the words “Homestead Hilton” painted on the side, I entered the van....

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