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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful, and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. -Aldous...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Jun 28, 2018
- 2 min
Royal Frailty (Balak)
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. -Frederick the Great The nation of Israel...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Jun 21, 2018
- 2 min
Post-Sin Traumatic Stress Disorder (Chukat)
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. -Scottish Proverb The Jewish people demonstrate yet again why God calls them a...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Jun 13, 2018
- 2 min
The Posture of Prayer (Korach)
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -John Bunyan Jewish prayer is filled with a variety of...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Jun 7, 2018
- 2 min
A Father’s Responsibilities (Shlach)
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -George Herbert The people of Israel had just been punished with a decree of forty years...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- May 29, 2018
- 2 min
Managing Righteous Anger (Behaalotcha)
Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- May 23, 2018
- 2 min
Immortal Bulls (Naso)
Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- May 16, 2018
- 2 min
Fire, Water, Desert (Bamidbar)
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a...
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Shmuel Sackett
- May 10, 2018
- 4 min
Never Leaving, No Matter What!
Yes, I agree that President Trump’s decision to end the Iran deal was a good thing, even though I knew exactly what it meant for Israel....
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- May 2, 2018
- 2 min
Parashat Behar: Positive Discrimination
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. -Carl...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Apr 24, 2018
- 2 min
Parashat Emor: Public Vindication
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. -Bishop Robert South It is not uncommon for the media to accuse a person or...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Apr 16, 2018
- 2 min
Don’t Curse the Deaf (Acharei-Kedoshim):
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Apr 11, 2018
- 2 min
Easy Murder: Parashot Tazria-Metzora
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them. -Alice Sebold The Torah spends several...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Mar 20, 2018
- 2 min
Useful, Thoughtful, Meaningful Prayers
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. -Mahatma Gandhi...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Mar 13, 2018
- 2 min
Vayikra: Vital Clear Communication
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Mar 6, 2018
- 2 min
What Goes Up Must Not Come Back Down
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. -Bhagavad Gita In the course of my career, I’ve had occasion to advise CEOs...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Feb 28, 2018
- 2 min
Safety of the Crowd
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. -Nikita Khrushchev God instructs Moses to count the...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Feb 21, 2018
- 2 min
Etymology of the Ruby
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. –Plautus...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Feb 13, 2018
- 2 min
The Price of Laziness
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate...
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Rabbi Ben Tzion Spitz
- Feb 6, 2018
- 2 min
Choosing Slavery
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. -Jean Jacques Rousseau The Jewish nation has escaped from...
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