Category: teshuva
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Rambam and Teshuva
In preparation for Yom Kippur and doing Teshuva I have translated chapter 2 of Rambam’s Hilchot Teshuva and compiled a source book of commentaries and sources on and about it. If I say so myself there is some excellent stuff in there (it changed my understanding of teshuva). You can download it for free from… Read more
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Funding the Enemy – another reason for teshuva!
Yet another reason to mourn. We destroyed the Beis Hamikdosh, and since we still await its rebuilding, according to the Yerushalmi it is as if we are responsible for its destruction. However today’s news tell us that our tax money, apart from funding the histadrut strike (how can a country function when there is a… Read more
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Guns ‘n’ Portfolios
There are several pieces of Talmud that talk about people turning their lives around, earning olam haba in an instant, or other inspiring teshuva messages. This story caught my eye because it is kind of the same message, but instead of ‘an instant’ it was ‘a exploded pancreas’ and instead of ‘olam haba’ is is… Read more
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The Emporor has no Clothes
Sorry to continue with Winograd, but this is priceless. Amir Peretz, the defence minister, who was harshly criticised by Winograd, thinks they were complimenting him. He sent out an e-mail showing how good he is. * “It must be granted in the defense minister’s favor that if he had had enough time, he would have… Read more