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  nechama esther miriam -11 years ago

  Great article

  Loved the article, I really needed to be reminded and to keep reminding myself yidasha soul I don't think that there was any intention to differientate between sephardic and ashkenzi just like the sephardic use some arabic expressions at times so ashkenazim use yiddish. but it is in reference to all jews i am sure there was no intention to differentiate. i am wondering why this person took this expression so personally?

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  gittel -11 years ago

  Question

  
  Who is Eliezer ben Nissan Hacohen?

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    Anonymous -11 years ago

    Re: question
    Lenored Cohen

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  Rachel -11 years ago

  Yiddisha soul
  I thoroughly enjoyed reading this wonderful article.  My heart sank when you used the expression "yiddesha soul".  When will Ashkenazi Jews, rabbis included, deeply understand that there exist Sephardic Jews that predated the recent new kid on the block, the Ashkenazi Jew?
  
  
   
  
  
  Joseph was Sephardic not Ashkenzi - you evidently like to make a distinction.  I never find it necessary to make that distinction, as we are all Jews, but so many Ashkenazi, in a sad display of snobbery or something else, only recognize themselves as being the Jews!  Even in times when they did not exist, which is most of history!  Since most of your readership is "Ashkenazi" I would be surprised if any would speak up about this - or even be aware.
  
  
  This includes my own rabbi who was quick to point out to me he was an Ashkenazi Jew, not a Sephardic.  Why was it necessary to make that clear?   Aren't we all Jews?  What divisive purpose does it serve? Obviously Hitler didn't care which one you were.  Most of the non-Jewish world doesn't know or care.  This attitude migrated with the Ashkenazim to Israel, where it is also strongly prevalent.   And now to see that distinction made here, makes me sad at the blind sidedness that does not become this article.  Neshamas are neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardic, they are JEWISH!  
  
  
  So our blindness is not only in a marriage situation, but on a bigger scale of how we view our fellow Jew!
  
  
  
  
  
  Rachel Braly

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  marissa -11 years ago

  tasters choice
  My morning cup of spiritual coffe before I start my day. Thank you for always making it full to the brim!

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  Marty Taub -14 years ago

  Marriage requires proper knowledge
  The right message for me at he right time. Thank you.

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  ruth housman -14 years ago

  and the sea parted
  It's a very interesting metaphor you made here, because we say, when a couple comes apart, that there is a split, and to leave is to split up.
  
  The word sea itself is also aurally, of course see, and memory contains MEM, the Hebrew letter that is deeply about the sea itself, if you examine the roots of the Hebrew letters in terms of meaning.
  
  There are deepening metaphoric connects here, as with all stories, and what is so remarkable is that we keep on this path, of discovery, the uncovering that does seem also part of the story, and why we are here.

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  Kayo, Tokyo -14 years ago

  ?!
  Baruch HaShem
  
  Having used to watching Rabbi Menachem Mendel and Rebbetzin Chana Sudakevich of Beis Chabad Japan, I did not realized a marriage life is such a difficult thing?!

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  Nicole -14 years ago

  i loved
  the opening joke. and the rest is also very good.

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  Tzfat -14 years ago

  Essential Powerful Messages for Now!
  
  
  Todah Rabbi YY Jacobson; for these still essential, illuminating messages that point to the path of clarity, refinement and realization of the REBBE's work to bring Moshiach Now!

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  Kayo, Tokyo -14 years ago

  Everything they have
  Baruch HaShem
  
  My agony...
  Chabad Lubavitch always has given me all that they have, but I can take so little.

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  Kayo, Tokyo -14 years ago

  This is Education
  Baruch HaShem
  
  Chabad Lubavtich believed, expected, saw in me what I would be capable of more than I, myself, had expected.

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  Esther Sarah Evans -14 years ago

  ב"ה b"H inyan: yum, yum, dat really hit de spot
  b"H
  
  Toda raba, Rabbi.
  
  Be well, and take care.
  Esther Sarah and Halakha.

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  Friend of Chabad -14 years ago

  Artful
  What a meaningful, warm, freilich honoring of such tzadikim. Quite profound/moving - a gift, thank you!

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  Jeff -14 years ago

  Niggunim
  Please sell or make available the amazing music - inspirational!

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  Dovid Feld -15 years ago

  thanks
  great, thanks

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