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In the beginning of the Seder night of Passover we eat bitter herbs. But why do we start off this joyous meal with something bitter? Wouldn’t it make more sense to start with something sweet? Rabbi Pessin shares a meaningful message from our Sages.
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We find an interesting phenomenon regarding the Purim Holiday. The salvation came through a woman. It came through Queen Esther. All previous salvations and later salvations were usually through men. What was so different about this salvation that it came about through a woman? Rabbi Pessin shares an insight into the story of Purim.
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On the Jewish Holiday of Purim we must get drunk to the point where we can no longer distinguish between the righteous Mordechai and the evil Haman. Why should we lose sight of that difference? Watch Rabbi Pessin to find out now…
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Tu Bishvat or Tu Bshevat is referred to as the Festival of Trees. Why are we celebrating Trees? What is this all about?Rabbi Aharon Pessin shares a beautiful lesson that we can hopefully take with us in to this joyous holiday…
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In life things don’t always work out the way we want them to. Sometimes we get angry, we get frustrated. Although in reality, you can get rid of that anger and frustration with a rather simple technique. It’s called reframing. By looking at the exact same situation through a different lens. In this video Rabbi David Genish shares a somewhat humorus example of how each person sees the exact same scenario differently.
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The Midrash tells us that the Ancient Greek exile is referred to as Darkness. Imagine a beautifully furnished castle – now imagine as you are walking through enjoying the fine details and someone turns off the lights! All that furniture which was once beautiful now becomes an obstacle! But weren’t they so intelligent? Weren’t the Ancient-Greeks the harbingers of science, philosophy and math? The problem was that they loved wisdom so much, they saw it as an end in itself. They focused on the ‘what’ and not the ‘why’.
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For the Jewish Holilday of Sukkot, we build ourselves temporary huts, in Hebrew this hut is called a “Sukkah” – And during the Holiday period we basically do all our primary home activities in there, mainly eating and sleeping – but also other activities. But why these temporary, flimsy huts? Why not something more stable and luxurious? Jacob Rupp explains
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The secret to happiness is actually found in the Jewish Holiday of Sukkot. We build temporary huts outdoors and we dwell in them for 7 days, but how does this teach us happiness? Jacob Rupp shares an insight in under 80 seconds
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Yom Kippur the holiest day of the Jewish Year. What is this special day. It’s kind of like the ‘laundromat day’ you go in no so clean, and come out purified – how does this Holy day work? Rabbi Aaron Pessin explains in this short 1 minute video
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It’s customary on the Jewish New Year (aka Rosh Hashanah) to dip the apple in the honey – but why do we do this? Rabbi Aaron Pessin shares ones of the beautiful explanations that could give us more appreciation as this special Holiday arrives.
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