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Dare to be ALONE | a short on Loneliness, Isolation & Quarantine

Dare to be ALONE | a short on Loneliness, Isolation & Quarantine

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Essay: Rabbi Yanky Raskin, LMSW | Video: Shaya Sussman, LCSW On Being Alone “He [the Metsorah/leper] shall dwell alone — his dwelling shall be outside the camp.” —Vayikra 13:46 Even as we are forced into quarantine, we (at times) continue to act and enact behaviors, so that we do not experience the experience of being alone. We binge watch, smoke, drink. Worry, fear, obsess over the news, etc. Whatever it takes to escape being with Self. Where are we running?…

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But How is He Going to Make a Living?

But How is He Going to Make a Living?

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Pinchas: A Sicha Part 2 Read Part 1 here. But How is He Going to Make a living? It’s a fair question. Your shvigger asked the question about you and your wife will ask it about your future son-in-law. The simple answer is: G-d wants us to have a relationship with materialism and yet remain above it all. Now we can understand why the issue with Pe’or happened before entering the land of Israel after the first generation of Jews in the…

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A Geshmake Tayve

A Geshmake Tayve

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Pinchas: A Sicha Part One :וְהָיְתָה לּוֹ וּלְזַרְעוֹ אַחֲרָיו בְּרִית כְּהֻנַּת עוֹלָם תַּחַת אֲשֶׁר קִנֵּא לֵאלֹקיו וַיְכַפֵּר עַל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל “It shall be for him and for his descendants after him [as] an eternal covenant of kehunah, because he was zealous for his G-d and atoned for the children of Israel.” (Pinchas 25:13) The situation with Pinchas happened after the Jewish people began sinning with the Moabite women and doing serving idols (avoda zara) of Ba’al Pe’or with them. Rashi tells us that…

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