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We Are a People That Really Like Counting!
by Arliene Botnick, April 1, 2021
From the very beginning of our Torah, counting has played a significant role in our Jewish story, and usually the counting is counting up. We began on day one when…
Read More »Survival Means???
by Arliene Botnick, February 25, 2021
We have just celebrated Purim, the most raucous, irreverent of our chagim. We are commanded to feast, to drink to excess – “One should drink until one no longer knows…
Read More »Complain or Appreciate, Bemoan or Thank
by Arliene Botnick, January 28, 2021
Our biblical narrative has numerous examples of our propensity to complain rather than appreciate. It appears that for some 430 years, our ancestors spent a significant time ‘kvetching’ = complaining….
Read More »The Changing Landscape
by Arliene Botnick, December 31, 2020
The landscape of our lives keeps changing, and no where is it more apparent than in our Torah. From the very beginning, Beresheet, we see humanity grow, learn, suffer, and…
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