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NYJW Sabbath Week

Seeing is believing, we all know — except when it isn’t. Take the well-known optical illusion that displays two parallel lines of equal length with arrows at their ends. The line with the arrows pointing outward inevitably looks shorter than the identical line with arrows pointing inward. More serious are the chasms of belief that […]

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‘When the Ark traveled forward, Moses said, ‘Rise up, O God, and scatter Your enemies, and let them that hate You flee before You.’ And when it rested [Moses] said, ‘Return, O God, unto the myriads of the families of Israel’” [Numbers 10:35–36]. I would like to invite you to join me in a fascinating […]

“When a man or woman shall commit any sin … they shall confess their sin which they have committed.” [Numbers 5:6-7] According to Maimonides, this verse, which obligates confession, is the basic source for the commandment of repentance; repentance is incomplete without verbal confession. Writing in his Mishneh Torah [Hilkhot Teshuva 1:1] he rules that […]

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