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  C harity begins at home, goes the maxim. Pshat is that one should be kind to his or her own family first, and then extend kindness to others. The more subtle meaning is that charity — all the different brands of chesed and generosity one extends to the public — is likely connected to the fiber

The Rebbetzin is gone, but the message is alive and well

Phew! Only one quote was something I simply hadn’t said

I read it twice, and both times it kindled my rage

Hunger for materialism. Fueled from without or within?

Parshas Korach is the tale of the archetypical machlokes