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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Dear Readers
I'm already imagining the letters we'll get in response to this week's cover story
Bassi Gruen
Break the Chain: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5783
Oh, no, I thought, Will I allow Goldie to use the silent treatment as a weapon?
Sarah Nimarov
Break the Chain: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5783
Growing up, I knew that it was bad to spend money and sinful to buy things at full price
Rachel Jaffe
Uncomplicated
S ee no evil hear no evil speak no evil. This admonition of the three wise monkeys is part of the daily vocabulary — even if not the behavior — of all civilized people. But there is one people concerning whom these three monkeys are stood on their heads. About that people there is just the reverse:
Faigy Grossmann
Great Reads: Second Guessing
Carpool kinks are starting to be ironed out for next year. What to do?
Family First Readers
Great Reads: Second Guessing
It's just a carpool. Do we need to be married to it?
Ariella Schiller
Akeida Moments
Sometimes I’d believe I could slip into it, if I could just find the portal to enter. A place that would accept me, quirks and all.
Esther Kurtz
Akeida Moments
“I accept Your Will Hashem,” I whispered, “I accept this nisayon, please just give me the koach.”
Avigayil Wein
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To deliver sermons to others is relatively straightforward. To look inward and work on enhancing one’s own connectedness with the Creator is infinitely more complex.

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How am I supposed to switch moods from yesterday’s gloom and doom to a new, bright day of joy and simcha

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How does one become a thinker or a theologian? Is there an examination before one can practice thinking? Does one get a certificate or a license? And if someone without a license is caught thinking, does he get fined for thinking without a license?

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Our last column (Issue 444) listed ten challenging questions. Today we suggest some answers. To refresh memories the original questions are summarized and printed at the beginning of each answer below.   1) What root word is found repeatedly at the beginning of Bereishis?  Other than tov (good) which is of course common throughout the

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman