Tag: Elul
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Pulse of the Parsha – Shoftim
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Measuring Motivations: Morality, Misdeeds, and the Month of Elul The prohibition against accepting a bribe is not one of the Torah’s laws that anyone accuses of irrelevance. This week, the WSJ reported that since rising to power in 2012, Chinese paramount leader and president Xi Jinping has disciplined more than…
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Rebbitzen’s Reflection
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Parshas Re’eh: Seeing Clearly “See—I place before you today blessing and curse.” (Devarim 11:26) Moshe opens this week’s parsha with one powerful word: “Re’eh”—”See.” Moshe doesn’t begin by saying listen or understand. He says, see. Summer has a way of shifting our focus. With August here and Elul approaching, it’s…