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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Be true to yourself. That is, unless your self is mean-spirited, obnoxious, and insufferable. Then be someone else. Being authentic is generally viewed as a valuable trait. Knowing your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and values, and then acting and interacting with the world based on them, is a core principle behind several psychotherapeutic frameworks. Recent research has demonstrated that higher levels of authenticity are associated with increased general well-being and can improve personal relationships and overall job satisfaction. Advertisement While on the surface, Parshat Terumah outlines the measurements of the different components of the Mishkan, the commentators see in them hidden symbolism relating to personal growth. The ark was to be covered with pure gold: âFrom within and from without you shall cover itâ ( ....
Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik attends an event in Jerusalem on August 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) JTA Three times on Sunday, January 31, Orthodox men carried the body of a beloved Torah scholar wrapped in a black and white prayer shawl through the streets of Jerusalem to a freshly dug grave. First there was Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, the 99-year-old heir to a vaunted tradition of Talmud study. A few hours later it was Rabbi Yitzchok Sheiner, the 98-year-old leader of a prominent yeshiva. And in the evening they took Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, a psychiatrist and scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, to his final resting place near Beit Shemesh. ....
By Rabbi Elie Mischel | February 04, 2021 A few months ago, just before the winter set in, I shared a socially distanced cup of coffee with one of my congregants. We’ve been close friends for years, so he got straight to the point. “I work hard to support my family and to live the Modern Orthodox life. Yeshiva tuition is very expensive, but I pay it; I know it’s important. But now my oldest is going to college, and I don’t know what I’m going to do. The University of Michigan costs over $75,000 a year!” It’s a conversation I’ve had more than a few times over the years, as the obscenely high cost of college in America climbs ever higher. But with so many members of our community out of work because of the pandemic, it’s time to talk more openly about alternatives for our children. More specifically, it’s time to think about going home for college to Israel! ....
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Credit: Iowa Standard Recently Rabbi Yosef Adler, morah d’asra of Congregation Rinat Israel, unintentionally created a controversy when he answered a shaila from a congregant about removing the word “nasi” (President) from the Prayer for the Welfare of the Government after the riots at the Capitol. Given the political reality, as Rabbi Adler viewed it, he recommended taking out the word from the prayer the Shabbos before President Biden was inaugurated and reverting back to including the word a week later, after the inauguration. ....
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