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We Can All be Leviim

Chosen as a group because of their dedication to Hashem, the Leviim were purified through special procedures detailed in parshas Beha'alosecho. The result of this was a special status whose essence is summarized in the succinct statement by Hashem: Vehoyu li haLeviim -- The Leviim are Mine (Bamidbar 8,14).

THE PARACHUTING PHENOMENON
by Rabbi Doniel Hool

Derek slid open the door of the Cessna 206. It was a tiny airplane and you couldn't even stand fully upright in it. He looked just as nervous as I did, even though he had parachuted more than four thousand times before and this was my first jump. I had already done teshuva on the short flight upwards till our jumping height of three-and-a-half thousand feet.

"And If You Go To War in Your Land Against the Enemy that Oppresses You . . . "
by Yisroel Spiegel

Difficult times are upon us, and it seems that the greatest hardship lies in the element of "the latter troubles erase the memories of the first ones" (Brochos 13a). What is particularly difficult here is the fact that one has no time to ponder and contemplate what has already happened, since before one turns around, another trouble is washing ashore, and the worst of it is that one cannot take a breather to stop and internalize the lessons of the first experience.

The Cursed Economy
by Nosson Zeev Grossman

Reality as we know it is decreed solely on the basis of im bechukosai teileichu or ve'im bechukosai tim'osu, chas vesholom. This applies not only to the state of national security (venosati sholom bo'Oretz), but to day-to-day economics as well.


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