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OPINION & COMMENT Let's Have Change for the Better Government change is in the air. Avigdor Lieberman is making it a central issue as he joins the government, and even Prime Minister Olmert has accepted the principle that there should be some change, although he has not accepted the changes that Lieberman wants to make. Extremely Powerful Tools — For a Decadent
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The Foundations of the Torah Home: How to Establish a
Stable and Successful Jewish Marriage In the second perek of Ovos, we learn about how Rabbon Yochonon ben Zakkai asked his talmidim to go out and find the best, most direct path that a person should adopt in life. His five talmidim gave five different answers: a good eye, a good friend, a good neighbor, concern for the consequences of our actions and a good heart.
Understanding the Aleph Beis Although the Aleph Beis is the first thing that we are taught in cheder and it forms the foundation of our Torah learning, it is likely that we have never spent much time to review the Aleph Beis as adults, nor increased our understanding of it. In fact it is the basis of the complete Torah, which can only be understood, both in its written and articulated form, through the use of the alphabet. Politica: Looking for Quality of Political Life Rabbi Plaut's article (4 Oct.) on the life of Jews in the smaller Jewish communities in Germany before the war was a welcome reminder of the world of simple, if not particularly learned, piety of which most readers were probably completely unaware. As he writes their "loyalty to Jewish tradition was very deep-rooted." To The Editor:The North Korean nuclear test ("Atomic Technology is Threatening the World," 28 Tishrei) reminded one of the warning of Rav Saadia Nachmani zt"l. He predicted the Six Day War to the day, three days before it happened while living in Morocco, and the Yom Kippur War to the month. All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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