Archive for September, 2009

Elul thoughts: "No Regrets" was almost a motto for my generation coming of age in the late 60s and early 70s.  Probably because we saw too many "lives of quiet desperation" around us, housewives who wanted to be fashion designers, and clerks who wanted to be artists.  It's a great hubris: the only way to...
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There are some prayers we say every day, and normally just zip by them without paying that much attention.  But there is often a profound message, if we but pause to consider it.  There is a passage in the Talmud that we recite every morning after saying the blessings for studying Torah: These are...
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