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According to the Jewish mystics, everything in the world is singing.
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Six events occurred on Tu B'Av, the 15th of Av, making it a festive day in the Jewish calendar.
How were the Nazis able to carry out the Holocaust - something extremely complex - without a computer?
Where one burns books one will in the end burn people.
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A mystical look at the meaning of this Jewish month.
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The moon is central in Jewish tradition.
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Like the moon, the Jewish people will rise up again and light up the night.
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The spiritual growth we’ve harnessed this past month is available throughout the year.
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Now is the time to put into action all the hopes, prayers and resolutions we made at the start of the Jewish New Year.
Guidelines for the joyous Jewish outdoor festival of Sukkot.
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One day commemorates a variety of Jewish tragedies.
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Using the 12 months of the Hebrew calendar as a map for personal growth.
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The last month of the Jewish calendar is actually the most important – serving as preparation for the High Holidays.
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The spiritual significance of the month of Shvat.
Looking at the world from its inner spiritual core outward.
What can happen when we see everything as being fully within our grasp and under our control.
At Sinai we moved above and beyond, where the whole truth dwells.
The power of turning the bitter into sweet, sickness into healing.
The same covenant that promises suffering, promises redemption.
Tevet is a time of return and redefinition.
Each of us has to fight off darkness in his or her own way.
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Why we rest on Shabbat.
The month that moves us out of being enslaved to our egos.
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