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Rosh Hashanah 5765 - September 15, 2004

The G-d Business

It's not for the money -- I had plenty of that before I started. And I'm not the kind of person need to be "doing something" to feel complete. So why am I doing this?
Birthing

It is painful, exciting, scary, unbelievable. There is no turning back. We were created to create, and it is time...
If You Could Be G‑d for One Week, What Would You Do?

Who would you help? What punishments would you mete out? How would you handle this awesome responsibility?
Story
The Fireman

Once it happened that a lad from a small village came to town for the first time. Suddenly he heard the sound of a bugle. He asked people what it meant...
Parenting
Are Your Children Afraid of Terrorism?

When children understand why we were created and why we are in this world, they become less anxious about the “what ifs” and more focused on to living each day to its fullest.
High Holiday: a Rosh Hashanah Anthology

The Cry of the Shofar: Two Chassidic Parables... Sweet: A Divine Revelation... The 48-hour Brain... Cooking the Year... The Waking of Creation...
Parshah
Rosh Hashanah Torah Readings in a Nutshell
Remembrance and laughter, banishment and benevolence, seven sheep and a well, the ultimate sacrifice and the origin of Jerusalem.
Haazinu in a Nutshell
Moses’ song to the Jews before his passing. G‑d instructs Moses to climb Mount Nebo, from which he will view the Promised Land.
Each and every year there descends and shines a new and renewed light, which has never yet entered the world
— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi
Print Magazine

When the telephone was first introduced, a wise man was asked, “What can we learn from this contraption?”

He answered, “That which is spoken here is heard there.”

So they asked, “And from the telegraph?”

He replied, “Every word costs.”

“And from the locomotive?”

“Hesitate for a moment and you could lose the...