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Vayishlach: Why Keep Kosher?
Keywords: animals, archaeological, death, eat, entitlement, every day, fish, food, fork, gratitude, health, hybrids, hypocrite, imperfect, Jacob, kashrut, King Henry II, knife, kosher, limp, meal, meat, Philistine, pig bones, principle, restaurant, shrimp, slaughter, spirit, sausage, talk, Thomas Becket, waffles
Vayetzei : Achieving Multiple Personalities
Keywords: back, Borges, definitions, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, dream, highest self, instincts, Jacob, Leah, Lorenz, many, many selves, me, multiple selves, myself, Naruda, poems, Quartet, Rachael, Somerset Maugham, twin, Whitman
Toldot : How to Deserve a Blessing
Keywords: Abraham, blessing, Carl Reiner, egg, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, idols, Isaac, Jacob, Mel Brooks, nose, parent, potential, shower, Terach, time, Whitehead
Chayei Sara: What Makes a Life?
Keywords: Abraham, angels, bromide, change, contradictory, convert, Dr. Phil, grandchildren, Hagar, Haran, Isaac, journey, Life Of Sarah, mistakes, Oprah, proverb, Sarah, Tzadik, values, wisdom, Yshmael
Chayei Sara: What Makes a Life?
Keywords: Abraham, angels, bromide, change, contradictory, convert, Dr. Phil, grandchildren, Hagar, Haran, Isaac, journey, Life Of Sarah, mistakes, Oprah, proverb, Sarah, Tzadik, values, wisdom, Yshmael
Vayera: Mitzvot Thai Style
Keywords: Abraham, AJWS, American Jewish World Service, Angela Maddahi, Bangkok, beauty, Buddha, Buddhism, Burma, Cambodia, challah, charity, child slavery, city, dreams, Facebook, Ghana, graciousness, Hong Kong, human rights, Joseph, land rights, literacy, Liberia, Muslim, NGO, Nigeria, poor, poverty, Ruth Messinger, Sodom, statues, Sudan, Thailand, travel, Twitter, village, war widows, wealth
Lech Lecha: Masked and Unmasked
Keywords: Abraham, broken, Canaan, Egypt, famine, Hagar, mask, masks, October, Pharaoh, plague, Purim, Rabbi Jack Riemer, Sarah, sister, weak, wife, Yom Kippur
Noach: Majesty and Humility
Keywords: abjection, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Adam, ashes, Avrum Burg, brain, darkness, death, Dr. Neil Martin, dust, ego, Eliezer Slomovic, fire, frame, German, hubris, humiliation, humility, image, limits, majesty, Mark Twain, memory, Moses, neurosurgery, Noah, once again, polarity, Rabbinical school, Tower Of Babel, UCLA
Bereshit: From the Garden of Eden to the Land of Israel
Keywords: Anton Chekhov, beast, beginning, Beverly, birth, Bloomingdale’s, city, Coldwater, death, dream, Eden, editors, end, ending, flowers, GPS, gun, ideas, Israel, kings, mall, map, Nordstrom, nothing, orange, outline, perfect, person, prejudice, prohibition, steady-state, stories, story, study, tapeworms, tree, unformed, vanity
Sukkot III : Much is Taken, Much Abides
Keywords: autum, business, Damon Runyon, dying, enjoy, eternity, faith, fall, family, futile, kohelet, mutability, sukkah, sukkot, time of our joy, useless, wisdom