BS”D The role and the status that women have in Judaism has been largely misunderstood and misrepresented in recent times, and the confusion that women have in the world at large about their role and place in society has only made things more complicated. This article is my attempt to bring a little clarity to…
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BS”D Sometimes I wonder when I’ll be old… When I was in my teens and twenties, I used to think that 40 was old. But now that I’m in my my forties, I don’t feel that much different. I’m a little more gray, a little more wrinkled, maybe a little more settled, but I can’t…
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BS”D Tehillim Chapter 3: HaShem is My Shield יְהֹוָה מָה רַבּוּ צָרָי רַבִּים קָמִים עָלָי רַבִּים אֹמְרִים לְנַפְשִׁי אֵין יְשׁוּעָתָה לּוֹ בֵאלֹהִים סֶלָה וְאַתָּה יְהֹוָה מָגֵן בַּעֲדִי כְּבוֹדִי וּמֵרִים רֹאשִׁי HaShem, how many are my tormentors! The great rise up against me. The great say of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him from…
BS”D אַשְׁרֵי הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא הָלַךְ בַּעֲצַת רְשָׁעִים, וּבְדֶרֶךְ חַטָּאִים לֹא עָמָד, וּבְמוֹשַׁב לֵצִים לֹא יָשָׁב …who didn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, and in the way of the sinners he didn’t stand, and in the seat of the scorners he didn’t sit. Tehillim Chapter 1:1 These three situations are in descending order…
BS”D In Sefer Tehillim Chapter 10, it says: יֶאֱרֹב בַּמִּסְתָּר, כְּאַרְיֵה בְסֻכֹּה יֶאֱרֹב, לַחֲטוֹף עָנִי; יַחְטֹף עָנִי, בְּמָשְׁכוֹ בְרִשְׁתּוֹ He lies in wait, like a lion in his lair (literally “his sukkah”) he lies in wait to snatch the poor one He snatches the poor one by pulling him into his net Tehillim…
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