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Leonard Grunstein

Oct 10, 2017, 12:07 AM

What the World Needs Now Is Balance — Work, Study and Love

The Ten Days of Awe, beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur, have concluded. After a period characterized by extremely intense prayer and introspection, we usher in the Holiday of Sukkot with joy. G-d willing, our prayers...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Oct 2, 2017, 3:21 PM

Vezot Habrachah: Dark Fire

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. -William J. Broad Cosmologists have a problem. According to their observations and calculations, our universe should have significantly more matter and energy than...

Ariel Ben Avraham

Oct 2, 2017, 12:04 AM

Parshat V’Zot HaBeracha: The blessing of all blessings

Moses' last words to the children Israel come as the spirit of the blessing that encompasses the blessings that he gave them, all inspired by the ones Jacob gave to his children before his death. This spirit is the...

Jan 11, 2017, 7:57 PM

Parshat Vayechi – ויחי

airbrushed acrylics on canvas 30" x 40" (76 x 102 cm) Jacob's Blessing for Benjamin Benjamin is a vicious wolf בִּנְיָמִין זְאֵב יִטְרָף (blessing this tribe to be ferocious in battle) (Genesis 49: 27) One can make a sardonic comparison to Isaiah's (11:6) famous messianic prophecy: "A...

Nov 11, 2016, 5:28 PM

Finding the Light in the US Elections

I’m looking out over Lake Kenilworth in Asheville, North Carolina, and see thousands of glimmering darts of sunlight on what can sometimes be a very dark and murky body of water. And that is a metaphor that speaks to...

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