Tag: God
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Jewish Life
Permission to Deny: Part 1
I've re-read Lawrence Kelemen's Permission to Believe this past week and found it just as unsatisfactory as I did when I read it the…
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Jewish Life
Atheists seem to have it so easy
Atheists really seem to have it easy. They probably don’t, but when I look at them from afar it seems to be an easy…
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Jewish Life
Why do Jews make such a big deal over missionaries?
I get messages on facebook all of the time that tell me one of my mutual friends with that person is a missionary and…
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Jewish Life
The Lord shall smite you
You know how cursing according to the torah was a big deal, but it was always kind of backhanded? Well I always wondered how…
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Jewish Life
4 months in California and loving it
Everyone I have been speaking to on the phone lately has been asking me when I plan to move back to New York and…
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Jewish Life
Orthodox Judaism is not for everyone
The whole concept of being off the derech bothers me because in my opinion there is no right derech, if we call those who…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Presenting Rabbi Yehuda Levin
Rabbi Yehuda Levin made this video to get attention and it's working, it is also a huge Chillul Hashem. Rabbi Yehuda Levin is not…
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Dating & Marriage
Make 3 shidduchim and go directly to heaven – seems like BS to me
I have heard countless people say that if you make 3 shidduchim you get a direct VIP pass to heaven, but it seems like…
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Shul Life
Two Scenarios in Which I Meet God (After 120 Years)
Children, children! Yom Kippur is coming and we all owe the Oibeshter a little something. Maybe you spoke loshon hara, chas v'sholom, maybe you…
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Dating & Marriage
Does God ever really hook you up?
This past Sunday I drove straight from Toronto to New York, Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t do something like this, its not that it’s…
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Shul Life
I davened with a reform minyan and loved it!
The title is misleading, because technically there wasn't a minyan, since there were only about 7 men and twice that in women. I spent…
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Jewish Life
My newfound fear of flying
The oxygen masks are flinging about my head as I try to grab one, I can see children around me choking as the cabin…