Dear Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya. My name is Michael Ngige Karanja. I am 34 years old, a Christian, a husband, and a father to a wonderful two-year-old son. For many years, I have worked as a teacher, and I am now prayerfully transitioning into business and entrepreneurship, particularly within the field of
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My most frequent reaction when I read my own Musings from long-past years, is, “Wow. This has been an issue for a long time.” Eleven years ago I suggested that parents be on high alert as to what their children were being taught in school. That alert should now be code-red. Back then I wrote,
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With speaking events scheduled in Nashville, Atlanta, and Orlando recently, I enjoyed the hospitality of five different hotels. Without naming the hotels because it is not entirely their fault, rude and inconsiderate conduct is apparently becoming common. One morning, preparing to depart, I sought in vain for one of the complimentary luggage trolleys one usually
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Shalom Rabbi Lapin and Susan, I am a 52-year-old woman, married for 27 years. My husband and I invested in our two daughters, homeschooling them while living on my husband’s income. Now both our girls still live with us. The oldest has her own job and does pay for her share of the bills including
Around three weeks from now, I will observe my mother’s 23rd yahrzeit, the annual acknowledgment of the (Hebrew) date of her death. It is, of course, impossible to know for sure how my mother would relate to today’s events, but I think that I have a pretty good idea. My mother had a sunny disposition.
Choose One It is never comfortable when your own arguments are used against you. When that happens, it might reveal that your arguments were empty or it might lead you to sharpen your thoughts. If the topic changes and you are no longer comfortable with your logic, it is time to rethink. Let me give
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I am not a religious person nor a Jewish person. I need someone like you someone who can guide me. I worked faithfully until about 3 years ago and then due to economical down turn situation I was let go of my work. I haven’t finished my education; I haven’t even finished high school. I
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Question of the week: I have been a stay-at-home mom off and on for over 24 years and decided to go to university to study psychology in hopes to become a counselor in some capacity when all four children became independent and on their own. I have been married for over thirty years to a
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Did you carry an egg around in junior high? The late 1980s saw schools providing ‘egg babies’ to their students in an attempt to expose them to the work involved in caring for a baby. You were meant to provide a place for the egg to rest and keep it with you at all times.
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“Come to Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants so that I can put my signs in his midst, and so that you may tell in the ears of your son and your grandsons how I made a mockery of Egypt and my signs that I placed among them—and
