Parashah Toldot – A Story of Two Inner Paths Connection with the previous parashah (Chayei Sarah) Chayei Sarah closed with Avraham’s house ordered: Sarah buried in Machpelah, the land anchored through a conscious kinyan, Rivkah entering her…
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A Story of Two Inner Paths
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The Spiritual Forces behind Giving Advice
Giving advice to friends feels simple. Someone shares a problem, we want to help. But the moment we step into the role of guide or advisor, we are pulled into a quiet struggle between giving, restraint, and discernment. Most of the damage we…
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Abraham Stands. Joseph Keeps Standing
I love the story of Joseph because it teaches great truth that applies to daily life. If Abraham is the moment someone stands, Joseph is what it looks like to keep standing when the ground keeps shifting. Before Pharaoh ever dreams anything,…
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Jacob’s Wells, And The “Philistines” Who Try To Plug Them
One of Isaac’s primary occupations, we learn in parshas Toldos, was excavation. He dug wells. The parsha tells us of several of the wells – Esek, Sitnah, Rechovos – that Isaac and his servants dug and then redug. On the simple level, Isaac was…
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Istanbul’s Near-Deal Boosts Hamas for Round Five
The rush to “rebuild Gaza” while Hamas stays armed, funded, and diplomatically courted is not peacemaking — it is state-sponsored insanity and geopolitical malpractice wrapped in moral cowardice. And Tuesday’s near-meeting in Istanbul…
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Where Missiles Fall, Science Sprouts: The Story of a Promising Discovery
At a time when the “12-day war” between Iran and Israel last June dominated the headlines, something remarkable happened in Rehovot: amidst the wreckage of a laboratory destroyed by an Iranian ballistic missile, a group of scientists…
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Decency instead of Descent
Since October of 2023, executives, principals, coaches – the adults in the room – have often been incapable of confronting wrongs. Instead of punishing the vandal’s swastika, they’ve commonly opted to wish-it-away or to just move-on….
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Wasting Courage… Providence remains
There are moments when one senses that something essential has thinned in the air, as though a subtle moral fabric has worn down and grown almost transparent. It is not an obvious collapse, not the spectacular breaking of institutions or the…
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On the Pan-Arab Origins of the Palestinian Flag
HISTORY MATTERS BECAUSE FACTS MATTER On the Pan-Arab Origins of the Palestinian Flag: Evolution and extent if its use The flag identified today as the Palestinian flag is immediately recognizable. It has three horizontal stripes, black, white,…
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Wait What? 46% of All IDF Exemptions Go to “Secular” Israelis?
You may have heard the line in one form or another. “Almost half of all IDF exemptions go to the “secular” Israelis. So why are people so obsessed with the haredim? Plenty of Jews don’t serve.” The statistic is true…but Now let’s finish…
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