CHILDREN
The Fire Fighter
The orderly returned and told my father, the general, that the Baal Shem Tov said he was too busy to see him. This infuriated my father. He sent the orderly back again to the Baal Shem Tov to tell him that if he refused to see him, he (my father) would billet his soldiers in the Jewish houses, and there would not be a single Jewish home which would not have to provide food and lodging for one or more soldiers.
This threat was very serious
PARSHA SUMMARY
Beha’alotecha
This week's portion begins with G-d's commandment to Moses to tell Aaron to light the menorah in a way that would illuminate the menorah itself...
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RENEWAL
Old Czarist Capital Fast Becoming An Ebullient Jewish Center
Sixteen-year-old Freda Soshkolskaya struggles to pinpoint exactly what it is that draws her to the Small Synagogue here every Shabbat. "It's just a feeling that brings me here," she says, coming out of services with a few friends one Shabbat morning.
But Soshkolskaya is far from the only person, young or old, who is finding new religious inspiration in this former Russian capital.
INSPIRATION
Kindling The Lights Of Our Souls
It was not sufficient for Aharon merely to apply the flame to the wicks; it was an integral part of the mitzvah for him to continue holding the kindling flame to the new wick until it "caught" properly and the newly-kindled flame was flickering upwards on its own...
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