Dear Rabbi and Susan, I’ve heard you say that money is one of God’s ways of rewarding us for serving other human beings. But what about people who become wealthy doing things that seem useless, frivolous, or even harmful? Doesn’t the success of people like that, disprove the idea that making money is evidence of
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Think of a spectrum line anchored at one end by the word Cynical and at the other by the word Gullible. Tend too much to one extreme and you won’t be able to form healthy relationships, be they personal, business, or communal. Tilt too much to the other end and you risk losing your time,
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I am Catholic and a good friend of mine is Jewish, living in NYC. He thinks the current antisemitism needs to be solved by protest. I believe it is more spiritual and caused by America moving away from G-d. The antisemitism is part of the demonic gaining a foothold as G-d not in the picture
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One of the most popular discussion threads among successful, single men everywhere is, “How can I know she loves me for me and not just for my money”? If you happen to belong to that demographic, today, I intend setting your minds to rest, though not in the way you might have hoped. No, I
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I cried when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I did not watch the video clip showing his murder. The pogroms of October 7, 2023, personally affected me. I self-monitor the times when I listen to or read accounts of that agonizing day. I avoid sensational news stories that used to be the headlines on magazines and
Dear Rabbi Daniel and Susan, I am in my early thirties, married with a three-year-old and a one-year-old. I have a good job as an actuary, and my wife has cut back her hours as a physical therapist and works part-time since our second baby arrived. I am an involved father and love spending time
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Wednesday, August 12. I set aside time to write my Musing today, but instead I will explain why I am not writing the one I thought I would. The story begins when my husband and I visited a discount store in Vancouver, British Columbia, last week. As is common in such stores, the line where
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, Can you please give me more insight by what is meant by leave and cleave? Darren T. Dear Darren, We appreciate your faith in us that we will recognize and place the phrase “leave and cleave” to Genesis 2:24: “…a man should leave his father and his mother and cleave to
While Susan is taking a few weeks break from writing new Susan’s Musings posts, we are pleased to bring you one of her past favorites (originally published in 2018). Enjoy! A few years ago, my husband and I answered an ‘Ask the Rabbi’ question about whether deciding not to have children was acceptable. I was
For about 250 years, the British ruled over the greatest empire the world has ever known. How did a tiny little island with half the population of Germany and one hundredth the land area of the old Soviet Union get to rule much of Africa, much of North America, Australia, New Zealand, all of India
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