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If you don't like generalizations, skip this article. What follows is a
simplified and condensed version of the life story of your typical human male.We take on the world, vowing to turn it upside down. And then we relax, and learn to savor life's little pleasures. And then, one day we realize what's wrong: we're not having fun anymore!
Genesis 25:19-28:9 Week of November 26 - December 2 
Esau emerges first; Jacob is born clutching Esau's heel. Esau grows up to be "a cunning hunter, a man of the field"; Jacob is "a wholesome man", a dweller in the tents of learning. Isaac
favors Esau; Rebecca loves Jacob. Returning exhausted and hungry from the hunt
one day, Esau sells his birthright to Jacob for a pot of red lentil stew.
The stage is set for a cosmic struggle which still engulfs us today...
For folks like me battling a life-threatening disease, cracks in faith and
trust allow seepage of the darkest kind. Does this mean that we incapable
or void of bitachon?How might we apply the adage “Think good and it will be good” to our flawed lives and selves? What truth might it hold for us who, in spite of our imperfection, seek such faith to combat illness and hardship?
Father is standing, his face to the wall, praying. He is entreating G-d, he
is pleading for mercy. But I do not understand: Why is he entreating more than
all other worshippers? Why does he need G-d’s mercy more than other people?
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz on the current situation in the Holy Land Sophistication is the continuous activity of cutting down flowering, fruit-bearing trees, pulverizing them, turning them into paper and then replacing them with paper trees and flowers. People have become so sophisticated that they no longer believe in or understand anything anymore. Basic words, such as “friend,” “enemy,” “land" and "life” become totally incomprehensible. |
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