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If you prefer to watch a video, click on this link: Watch the video. As I have often said, I read Dear Abby every day because it provides great fodder for spiritual understanding and teaching. Recently someone wrote to her who had been abused as a child by her family,
Sometimes you just don’t have anything to say. That is a rarity in my case, but still and all I haven’t had any real inspiration for today’s message. Maybe that is a message in itself- when you have nothing to say, say nothing. Often we have to comfort those in
If you prefer to watch a video, click on this link: Watch the video. These parashot (the Hebrew plural for parashah) cover a number of different issues. We start with the making of vows by women, and how those vows are either allowed to stand or are nullified by the
If you prefer to watch a video, click on this link: Watch the video. I love golf. I have been playing since I was a teenager. For about 30 years I didn’t swing a club and now that I am retired, I am able to get back into the game.
No video today. Usually, when someone takes a single line or passage from the Bible and uses it to make a point, I become a little leery because that generally indicates something else is missing. I am going to do that very thing today, and hope to still be able to
If you prefer to watch a video, click on this link: Watch the video. We left the last parashah with Phinehas (Pinchas) killing the Israelite man and Midianite woman to stop the plague. Now God makes a covenant that the lineage of Pinchas will be the High priests forever because of
If you prefer to watch a video, click on this link: Watch the video. I am a retired IT Professional, and a life-long Nerd of the First Order, so I tend to see things in a technological way. A Modem, as most of you already know, is a device that
If you prefer to watch a video, click on this link: Watch the video. How many times do we hear on the TV or radio that the product being advertised is one that “you deserve to have?”  For instance, Lasik (the laser eye treatment) is now better than ever so
If you prefer to watch a video, click on this link: Watch the video. Even those people who are somewhat familiar with the bible have heard of the talking donkey story. They may not know of the spiritual meaning and the protection God provided for his people, which is the
No video today. I didn’t have anything in mind this morning and just as I was typing the title for today’s post it came to me:  we need to understand when to shut up. I can speak very well on this topic because (as the saying goes): “Those who can’t