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Chopping Wood: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Audio Shiur: Parshat Netzavim-Vayelech: The Connection Between Hakhel and Shemittah. Parshat Netzavim-Vayelech: The Connection Between Hakhel and Shemittah. We here in Israel will spend a great deal of energy on one tiny aspect of Shemittah: What can and should we eat during the coming years? But, in doing so, we'll also be ignoring many essential aspects of Shemittah, that we can discover by examining the connection in the Torah between Shemittah and the mitzvah of Hakhel.
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Chopping Wood: What's Your Special Holiday Food?
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Thursday, April 2, 2015. What's Your Special Holiday Food? Two summers ago, we spent a few weeks in New York, and visited the Museum of Natural History, which features a special exhibit on food. Among the fascinating elements of the exhibit was a display on special holiday foods. Describing the different foods that people of different cultures use during their celebrations. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Get the Parshah Podcast. Search the Spolter Web Presence. Enter your email address:. Welcome to ...
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Chopping Wood: Parshah Puzzler for Vayakhel-Pekudei
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Saturday, March 14, 2015. Parshah Puzzler for Vayakhel-Pekudei. What word appears in Vayakhel-Pekudei, that also appears in Tanach as a person, place and thing (all three)? Please don't post the answer in the comments. If you think you know, email me at rspolter at gmail. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Get the Parshah Podcast. Subscribe to the Personal Parshah Podcast Automatically via iTunes by clicking on the link below. Search the Spolter Web Presence. WeeklyParshah - My Latest Parshah Tweets.
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Chopping Wood: The Tefillin of the Holocaust: Thoughts for Yizkor
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015. The Tefillin of the Holocaust: Thoughts for Yizkor. Rav Tamir Granot begins his series of shiurim on Faith and the Holocaust at Yeshivat Har Etzion's Virtual Beit Midrash with an incredibly powerful story. My Heart's Desires." I will now share the latter with you:. Tzvi Greenstein, Kiryat Motzkin, 23 Harav Kook St. My help comes from the Lord,. A Do not, under any circumstances, perform an autopsy upon my body. Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One. God reigns...
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This American (after) Life | The One and Only Trisha Lynn
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The One and Only Trisha Lynn. Just another WordPress.com weblog. Laquo; So what is this “Awesome Thing”? Pascal’s Wager for agnostics. This American (after) Life. After thinking that I wasn’t going to be able to do so, I re-arranged my schedule a bit on Saturday morning to catch the local airing of the first story I got produced by “This American Life”. However, the part that’s the most gratifying is that Kelly’s best friend listened to the show and told me some particulars about her case whi...I wept &#...
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Chopping Wood: May 2015
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Friday, May 29, 2015. Parshat Naso: Birkat Kohanim. Parshat Naso: Birkat Kohanim. What does Birkat Kohanim have to do with dreams? To navigate to the shiur on YUTorah.org. Click on the player below to play the Shiur or right click here. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element. Links to this post. Monday, May 11, 2015. Technology and Education: A Site Visit at Amit Amichai Rechovot. On a visit to Amit Amichai Rechovot. Is tech the answer in education? If you h...
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Chopping Wood: President Obama's Un-Presidential Bucket List
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Monday, April 27, 2015. President Obama's Un-Presidential Bucket List. At the recent White House correspondents' dinner, President Obama joked about the fact that because he's in the "fourth quarter" of his presidency, people are asking whether he has a "bucket list". According to " The Hill. Obama mocked critics of his recent unilateral moves, saying he maintains "something that rhymes with 'bucket list.". Executive action on immigration? Bucket," Obama said to laughs. "New climate regulations? Many Ame...
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Chopping Wood: November 2014
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Friday, November 28, 2014. Audio Shiur: Parshat Vayeitzei - Rachel's Hidden Agenda. Audio Shiur: Parshat Vayeitzei - Rachel's Hidden Agenda. Why did Rachel steal her father's "trafim"? What in the world are trafim? We discuss biblical motivations, voodoo dolls, and the unintended consequences of our actions. To navigate to the shiur on YUTorah.org. Click to play the Shiur (or right-click to download). Links to this post. Friday, November 21, 2014. To navigate to the shiur on YUTorah.org. We give you seve...
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Chopping Wood: Audio Shiur: Parshat Tazria-Metzora - Tzaraat in the Home: The Danger of Permanence
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Friday, April 17, 2015. Audio Shiur: Parshat Tazria-Metzora - Tzaraat in the Home: The Danger of Permanence. Parshat Tazria-Metzora - Tzaraat in the Home: The Danger of Permanence. The text of the Torah seems to treat Tzaraat in the home as a "gift", especially when we compare the text to other similar texts in the Torah. Some gift. What lessons can we learn from this unusual spiritual phenomenon? To navigate to the shiur on YUTorah.org. Click on the player below to play the Shiur or right click here.
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Chopping Wood: December 2014
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Monday, December 15, 2014. What Do The Coming Elections in Israel Mean in the Real World? Many think that other than the unending chatter about who will run with whom and which place he or she gets in the party rankings, the elections have no real bearing on the lives of regular Israelis. Nothing can be farther from the truth. I'll give two small examples, both connected to the Ministry of Education. Reform #1: Bagrut Exams. Reform #2: Getting into College. No one really knows. And truthfully, no one wil...