Does G-d Help Those Who Help Themselves?

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Elul 5, 5772 * August 23, 2012

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Are There Any Good Kosher Wines? (By Shmuel Lewis)


Wine enthusiast and scholar, Rabbi Shmuel Lewis, goes through the basics of appreciating wine and teaches spiritual life lessons at the same time.

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Does G-d Help Those Who Help Themselves? (By Mendel Kaplan)
Studying Rashi: Parshat Shoftim

The Torah says (Deut. 18:13) "Be wholehearted with your G-d" in contrast to those who seek fortune tellers and other ways of knowing the future. Rashi explains that G-d doesn't want us to probe the future, but to simply accept whatever comes. But aren't we supposed to be proactive? Doesn't G-d expect us to do our part as well? How is this to be understood?

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Spiritual Motherhood

The Talmud teaches: "Let that man be remembered for good, and Rabbi Yehoshua ben Gamla is his name. Until he came, only children with fathers had the opportunity to study Torah, whereas orphans did not. But Rabbi Yehoshua established Torah schools in every province and city for all children, even as young as six and seven."

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Judges (By Dovid Taub)
Stick Figure Vignette: Parshat Shoftim

Three little judges deliberate a case.

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How and When to Judge Another (By Chana Weisberg)
A Taste of Text—Shoftim

There is always some explanation, some justification, some perspective for another's behavior. If you cannot see it, you are not fit to be a judge.

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Is Your Body Your Property? (By Moshe New)
Parsha Shoftim

An analysis of the legal difference between ownership of property and the proprietary rights one has over one's own body. We look particularly closely at laws in Maimonides' Laws of The Sanhedrin. (Based on Likutei Sichos vol. 34, p. 106)

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Elul Acronyms (Aaron L. Raskin)
Letters and Numbers of the Festivals

The name of the Hebrew month Elul is spelled alef-lamed-vav-lamed. This corresponds to five different Scriptural acronyms that represent five areas of special emphasis in Elul: 1) Torah study, 2) prayer, 3) acts of kindness, 4) repentance, and 5) redemption.

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The One Percent and Redistribution of Wealth (By Nochum Mangel)
Election 2012: Class 1

Is wealth a mark of sin, a sign that a person has greedily taken too much and necessarily impoverished others? Is poverty a sign of laziness, an outer indication of a poor character? We explore the Jewish view on why there is inequality in wealth, and what should we do about it.

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