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Housing prices, mortgage rates, and inflation have skyrocketed. Yet many young couples are still buying homes. How are they doing it? And should they be?
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“Hmm?” Tamar replied, closing her binder and looking up to see who was calling her name. Oh, Michal
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Even with all the arguing, she thought, the table felt so… friendly. They could say whatever they wanted; the warmth, the love, was still there
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Pesach Vanilla Chiffon Cake
Rav Gershon Edelstein’s devotion to the Torah’s reasoning was what kept him going straight for a whole century   T his wasn’t supposed to be a eulogy. A couple of weeks ago, it was time for me to prepare my weekly shiur on the Rokei’ach. I decided to focus on two short lines in the
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Cosmic Crowns

When Chazal say one who does a mitzvah he was commanded to do is greater than one who wasn’t commanded, they don’t mean more praiseworthy. They mean the effects of his mitzvah are far greater than one done voluntarily

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Your Will Is My Command

Interpersonal mitzvos are much more profound, and more demanding, than we think

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It Begs a Question

Asking questions isn’t just about learning new information; it’s about deepening our understanding

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Shabbos, Day of Emunah

The best time to work on emunah is on Shabbos, because Shabbos is mei’ein Olam Haba, a taste of the world to come

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What’s Your Story?

We have to dispel the widespread myth that good facts make a good story

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Do You Know Your Family?

If you want to really understand somebody, your aim has to be to simply think about him, not to reach the truth

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