Passaic Dating

Passaic Dating: "100 Orthodox Jews, with an intermarriage rate of 3% and an average 6.4 children per family increased their numbers to 2,588 Jews after 4 generations. 100 Modern Orthodox Jews, with an intermarriage rate of 3% and an average of 3.23 children per family also increased their numbers to 346 Jews."

Courtesy of: Will Your Grandchildren be Jewsih

Passaic Dating

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Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman

Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman: "Rebbe spoke about this so often that everything cannot be recorded. But what we have quoted here is excellent advice. Follow this path and you will complete many volumes. You will have a better comprehension than one who tries to understand everything the first time. A person who is overly precise can become very confused. Often he will abandon his studies completely and end up with nothing.

Accustom yourself to learn quickly, without too much attention to detail. You will then be worthy of learning in quantity. You will be able to complete the Talmud, the Codes, the Bible, the Midrash, the mystical books of the Zohar, the Kabbalah and all the other sacred works.

We have already mentioned that it is good for a person to complete all books concerning the Torah in his lifetime. The Rebbe once reckoned all that one must study each day if he has the time"

Truth Seeking: Emunah How Much Should We Depend on Hashem?

Truth Seeking: Emunah How Much Should We Depend on Hashem?: "those who merely perceive the consequences of our actions without ever looking for any of the underlying causes of the results which become the details of our lives. There are many different ways which one may come to believe that Hashem is the creator and King/Ruler of the Universe. However in order to really become any kind of master of one's destiny, it is a fundamental cornerstone"

Getting Ready...

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In The Beginning

In The Beginning: "insight into the nature of crowds and their tendencies to complain as well as the importance of leaders and their role in handling issues as they arise.

Be Careful What You Ask For:

The lesson of Hashem’s providing meat for the masses to eat is so obvious as it almost requires no commentary.

However Moshe, our teacher seemed to have had gotten caught up in the mathematics of the matter and was questioning Hashem how it was possible to provide meat for the 600,000 with available supplies of sheep and cattle. Indeed Moshe had even considered a parve alternative, how about fish?"

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In The Beginning

In The Beginning: "Hashem then instructed Moshe to appoint seventy men from the elders of Israel. Hashem was going to increase Moshe’s spirit to place it on the seventy elders.

The Parasha had begun with Hashem telling Moshe to speak to Aharon regarding lighting the seven arm Menorah. Now Hashem was explaining to Moshe that he was going to use Moshe’s spirit and increase it and place it on seventy new leaders."

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In The Beginning

In The Beginning: "not satisfied with our current status or lot in life, but are often clueless as to which way to turn to remedy the situation. By refusing too look at the big picture, we are simply cutting ourselves off from many of the potential remedies that are available to help us overcome the current obstacle. By having access to the wisdom of our holy Torah, we can attempt to grasp the situations that our ancestors were faced with and try to learn from the mistakes, or errors which they committed."

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Aharon Moshe's Notebook

Aharon Moshe's Notebook
Gimmel Tammuz Fabrengen
to honor the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 8:30 pm!
@ Beis Menachem104 Howard, Passaic NJ 07055 (Corner Park and Howard )
For more info call 973-249-9770

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Aharon Moshe's Notebook

Aharon Moshe's Notebook

Come join us at Beis Menachem for a
Gimmel Tammuz Fabrengen
to honor the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 8:30 pm!
@ Beis Menachem104 Howard, Passaic NJ 07055 (Corner Park and Howard )
For more info call 973-249-9770

Rabbi Wein - Chukas, 5761 - Torah.org

Rabbi Wein - Chukas, 5761 - Torah.org: "And Heaven always has its own inscrutable calculations and It also has the last word on the matter. This is certainly obvious from the narrative that appears in the Torah reading of Chukat.
Moshe is denied entry into the Land of Israel by God. His striking the rock at Meriva instead of speaking to it as God had instructed him is the proximate cause for his punishment of being excluded from leading the People into the Land of Israel. How this apparently severe punishment fits the transgression of Moshe, is the subject of much discussion among the commentators to the Torah. But, however we will resolve this matter of crime and punishment, transgressions and retribution, the basic fact of the Torah remains - Moshe was prevented by Heaven from realizing his goal of entering the Land of Israel. And Moshe's tragic disappointment led to dramatic consequences for all of Jewish and world history"

An excerpt from Rabbi Wein's explanation of Parsha Chukas 5761 linked via the title line above.

For a glimpse of my "in progress introductory explanation of Parha Chukas July 1, 2008 follow the link below to thewriterscafe.org Aharon Moshe Sanders, 7/1/08

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Ratzon- Primal Desire "Nothing Stands in the Way of Desire"

Rav Kalonymous Tapping the Void Principle
Rav Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, the Piazentzer Rebbe, also known as the Warsaw ghetto Rebbe, teaches the powerful lesson based on the following hypothetical illustration:Imagine yourself standing by a burning house.

The house is yours and inside of it are your most precious possessions and closest family members, G-d Forbid. How would you react?! Certainly, you would react with superhuman adrenalin-filled clarity and power in saving whatever you could.

There's no choice!! Most likely, every single aspect of your psyche would be enlisted in an effort that would bring superhuman results. Have you ever heard a story of a normal, everyday mother seeing a child of hers run out in front of an oncoming truck and the mother almost literally flying in the nick of time with one hand swooping up the child and with the other hand stopping the two ton truck?...

...Rav Kalonymous is trying to teach us is that we don't have to wait to be confronted with emergencies like these to illicit a very potent power we have inside of ourselves. We can simulate, or tap, this sense of urgency to achieve virtually anything we want.

This is the power of "ratzon," or primal desire, the third of three realms of the highest sefira, Keter. About this aspect of the psyche, our Sages say, "Nothing stands in the way of desire," and this will be the subject of the essay...