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Ki Teitzei 5766 - September 1, 2006

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Take Heart Pluto, Less is More

As a member of the Jewish people I say, "Pluto, we feel your pain..."
Parshah
Ki Teitzei in a Nutshell
The law of the beautiful captive and the rebellious son, the hybrid garment and the falsely accused spouse, the hungry employee and a dead brother’s wife, how to get married and when to get divorced—and sixty-six other mitzvot.
Relationships
An Intimate View on Intimacy

To be intimate means to go into a place that is private, that is sacred, that is set aside. It means one person entering into the private, sacred part of another human being's existence...
Where Is the Woman of My Dreams?

I know what you are going to say: I am too fussy. But I can’t just settle on something half good. Where is the woman of my dreams?
The Sign

When Roy takes a summer vacation, Itche and Jono are left without a set. A mysterious sign is their only company...
Jewish Guilt

Story
The Wonder Horse

Finally, Reb Yehoshua set a price of 25 Napoleons—a sum that would support a family for two years. Surely, no one would be so foolhardy as to pay that kind of money for a horse . . . !
The Baal Shem Tov was very fond of light, and said, "Or (light) is the numerical equivalent of raz ('secret'). Whoever knows the 'secret' in every thing can bring illumination."
— Hayom Yom, Elul 6
Print Magazine

The world is a place of constant change and unrest.

Each point in time is distinct from the point before and the point after.

Each point in space is its own world, with its own conditions and state of being.

It is a world of fragments, a perpetual rush of traffic and noise.

Look at your own life: You do so ...

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