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New, True, and Interesting: March 2006
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New, True, and Interesting. Monday, March 20, 2006. This is my new blog. I don't know if I'll ever really use it, but I might. I'll see. If I do, I'll post links on the other sites I frequent. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Welcome. This is my new blog. I dont know if I. On the Main Line.
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New, True, and Interesting: February 2009
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New, True, and Interesting. Thursday, February 26, 2009. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. On the Main Line.
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New, True, and Interesting: Pomegranates and Mitzvos
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New, True, and Interesting. Thursday, March 04, 2010. On Rosh Hashana, one of the simanim that we traditionally eat is a pomegranate, with the prayer that "sheyirbu zechoseinu karimon - that our merits be increased like a pomegranate." One common explanation is that since a pomegranate has 613 seeds, we are asking that we also should merit to fulfill all 613 mitzvos. Although this variant can be easily disproved empirically. Many other sources (cited by Rabbi Zivotovsky. This gave me a totally new unders...
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New, True, and Interesting: April 2009
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New, True, and Interesting. Thursday, April 23, 2009. A new name for an old blog. Well, this is the task I'd like to challenge myself with on this blog. I need to make sure I don't get intimidated by the name, and hesitate to post things because I'm not sure if they're new, true, or interesting enough, but I hope that this name change will do something to frame (in my mind, at least) what this blog is supposed to be. Links to this post. In the bracha of sh'ma koleinu, we start out with 3 requests:.
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New, True, and Interesting: November 2009
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New, True, and Interesting. Sunday, November 08, 2009. I heard a wonderful quote over shabbos (wrongfully attributed, but Google fixed that.):. A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.". The idea behind this quote extends far beyond the context of marriage. Very often in life, we tend to give up when things don't go the right way. Whether it's in our relationship with G-d, others, or (especially? The one running a marriage workshop. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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New, True, and Interesting: March 2009
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New, True, and Interesting. Friday, March 27, 2009. Jerusalem: A Lightbulb Factory? This is the article that I had published a few weeks ago, a revision of an earlier blog post from here. Enjoy. At a wedding I went to a few weeks ago, one song that they song caught my attention. The song was was Yershalayim Oro shel Olam: “Jerusalem is the light of the world, and Who is the light of Jerusalem? The Holy One Blessed be He.”. What does this song mean? A darkening of that light. Explaining to people how Isra...
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New, True, and Interesting: January 2009
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New, True, and Interesting. Monday, January 19, 2009. Beauty: The Rockies or Harei Yehuda? About a month ago, we had a discussion on Areivim about the value of appreciating nature. It started with discussion of the famous quote by Rav Hirsch. At one point, Rav Hirsch decided to go on a trip to visit the Alps. He explained that he needed to go on the trip because one day when he reaches the next world God was going to ask Him, "Did you see my Alps? But do they need to be? While I don't know how far I woul...
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New, True, and Interesting: April 2006
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New, True, and Interesting. Tuesday, April 11, 2006. Ways of Viewing the Orthodox Community. This is an essay that I wrote for my College Writing class, and since it speaks about the blogosphere, I decided to do none other than blog the essay. One blogger from this genre expressed himself as follows. (Even without understanding the specific rituals he refers to, one can get a feeling for where he’s coming from.). Oh, I look like a frum yid (Orthodox Jew). My family and friends are completely convince...
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New, True, and Interesting: A Second Marriage
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New, True, and Interesting. Sunday, November 08, 2009. I heard a wonderful quote over shabbos (wrongfully attributed, but Google fixed that.):. A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.". The idea behind this quote extends far beyond the context of marriage. Very often in life, we tend to give up when things don't go the right way. Whether it's in our relationship with G-d, others, or (especially? The one running a marriage workshop. How many of his personalities did that woman marry?
