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Can I Use (or Reuse) a Yahrzeit Candle for Something Else?
Is it considered a candle made specifically for the departed?
Is it considered a candle made specifically for the departed?
Freeman Files
Jews Don't Repent
Thirteen essays and stories that explore the what, why and how of of the most powerful force known to man--the power of self-transformation
Thirteen essays and stories that explore the what, why and how of of the most powerful force known to man--the power of self-transformation
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Podcasts
My Son Almost Burned to Death!
There were times of great struggle and doubt, but the Benjamin family surrounded themselves with a loving community, positivity, and the stubborn faith that things would turn out OK.
There were times of great struggle and doubt, but the Benjamin family surrounded themselves with a loving community, positivity, and the stubborn faith that things would turn out OK.
Parshah
Video
We Are on a Ten-Day Journey
The prophet Isaiah declares: “Seek G‑d when He can be found, call to Him when He is near.” The Talmud explains: “This refers to the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.”
The prophet Isaiah declares: “Seek G‑d when He can be found, call to Him when He is near.” The Talmud explains: “This refers to the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.”
Lifestyle
As the sun made to set, a deep sleep fell upon Abra[ha]m; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. And [G‑d] said to Abram: “Know surely that your descendents shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved to them, and they will afflict them . . . [but] afterwards they will come out with great wealth . . .”
— From the Torah’s description of the “Covenant Between the Pieces,” Genesis 15:12–14
Print Magazine
On Yom Kippur, we are all in recovery.
Recovery of our true selves.
Look beneath the stormy waves of life, beyond the failures, the guilt, and the pride.
Beneath the surface dwells a calm, pure soul that only desires to fulfill the divine purpose for which it came to this place. To run to do a mitzvah. To absorb t...
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