Dear Rabbi Lapin and Susan, I have been a long time follower of Rabbi Lapin. I am a mechanical engineer in Ontario Canada and have been one for close to 20 years in the oil & gas industry. I am finding it hard to maintain belief in an abundance mentality, and not to fall into
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Have you ever wondered why several languages, including English, use bread as an idiom for money—phrases like “got some dough?” or “can you lend me some bread?” Or why we invite others to a meal by saying, “let’s break bread together,” rather than “let’s snap crackers” or “let’s split a cucumber”? Or why fine restaurants
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Amelia Bedelia, the clever and witty children’s book series, was a favorite in our home. I read it to my five-year-olds and when they could, they read it to themselves. Amelia, a maid in a wealthy home, takes everything literally. She “dresses” the chicken by cutting out paper clothes for them; she “draws” the curtains
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Hi Rabbi Lapin and Susan, I find myself in an increasingly uncomfortable position of living with the father of my two kids but not being married. Before kids, I cancelled the wedding as I wasn’t sure but didn’t have the heart or courage to break it off. He stayed with me and after a couple
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For years, one phrase from ancient Jewish wisdom has troubled me. Here’s a literal translation: “If you are kind in place of being cruel, you will be cruel in place of being kind.” I’m not the only one that this millennia-old statement disturbs. I have seen many English translations that inaccurately soften these words, such
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Dear Le Ann, We wanted to make sure that we were speaking the same language, so we looked up a definition of transhumanism. Two definitions popped up and most interestingly there was an important difference between them. Here they are: What is the major difference between the two? To our ear, the first sounds focused
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We recently enjoyed a delightful few days in South Florida where I was guest speaker for a large and well-established synagogue in the Fort Lauderdale area. The occasion was the Biblical holyday commemorating God giving Israel the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. It was the Bible festival of Shavuot that we celebrated at the start
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I recently read a touching first-person account. The writer, after volunteering at a food bank, described serving a grateful woman who shared that she never imagined she would be in that situation. A tsunami of troubles, including divorce and losing her job, cascaded one upon the other quickly leaving her needing the handout. The many
I have been married for 6 years. I did not marry my husband out of romance or passion, but more for companionship. I was about to turn 30 and to be honest, the man I thought I was going to marry and I were both influenced by our families to not be together. It has
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Has anyone ever tried to gaslight you into believing that you were the only one who thought a certain way? Sometimes this is blatant as when a school tells a parent that they are the only one to complain about an inappropriate assignment or when a teenager insists that everyone else’s mother allows them to
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