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The Mystery of Cycles – Post 1

  • Trugman, Rabbi Avraham Arieh
  • "By understanding the Divine cycle of seven, as manifest first in the six days of creation and the culminating Shabbat, and subsequently sealed in all cycles of Jewish time and ritual, we enter into a Divine context of time....
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The Jewish Calendar, Explained

  • JLI (Jewish Learning Institute)
  • "Have you ever wondered how the Jewish calendar works and how it came about?...
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The Tenth of Tevet

  • Wein, Rabbi Berel
  • "The Tenth of Tevet marks the onset of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylonia, and the beginning of the battle that ultimately destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon, and sent the Jews into the 70-year Babylonian Exile....
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Living Emunah Vol. 5 – Post 3

  • Ashear, Rabbi David
  • "What some might look upon as a daunting challenge is, through the glasses of emunah, the greatest opportunity....
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Living Emunah Vol. 5 – Post 2

  • Ashear, Rabbi David
  • "All 613 mitzvos are ways for us to reach this ultimate understanding that everything in life comes from Hashem."...
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Living Emunah Vol. 5 – Post 1

  • Ashear, Rabbi David
  • "[Emunah] doesn't only help us physically; it is one of the greatest spiritual endeavors with which we can involve ourselves."...
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Chanukiya lit on the 8th night

“This Opposite This” HaShem Made the World

  • Schneider, Sarah Yehudit
  • "The Chanukah menorot in our windows and doorways are beacons of light, radiating our well-wishes out to the world...
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Chanukka and the Feminine

  • Schneider, Sarah Yehudit
  • "On Chanukka, says the Ari...HaKadosh Baruch Hu comes down and meets the Shekhina on her turf....
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Rabbi Sacks Chanukah quote

Ceremony & Celebration – Chanukah Candle 4

  • Kalazan, Rabbi Yinon
  • "Realising that the real battle was not against an empire but a culture, Jews set about constructing the world’s first system of universal education. The effect was astonishing....
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Chanukah: The Greatest Revenge

  • Pessin, Rabbi Aharon
  • If we want to commemorate the miricle of Chanukka that took place in the Beit HaMikdash, why do we light at home rather than in the synagogue, the "mini mikdash"?...
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Turning on God’s Light

  • Haber, Rabbi Yaakov
  • "Our function in this world is to activate G-d’s light....
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A Titanic Victory and a Small Cruse of Oil – Post 2

  • Jacobson, Rabbi YY
  • "If the Jews would have been defeated by the Greeks, there would be no Jews today; if the oil would have not burnt for eight days, so what?...
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