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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Got Kosher Files For Bankruptcy
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy sent out an email to parents today saying that Got Kosher (which serves Hillel’s lunch program) is filing chapter seven bankruptcy. Hillel’s rival business partners asked Hillel to choose between them and Hillel blew them both … Continue reading
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Welcome To The Dating World… One Yeshiva Bochur’s Purim Perspective
Eli M. writes for The Jewish Press: When you are “frozen,” you are being chained to a state of “bochurhood” in which you are suspended between the life you had and the new life that awaits you. Tu B’Shevat is … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Yeshiva
Tagged aftermath, avail, bmg, daters, emancipation, free nights and weekends, freezer, jewish press, Lakewood, limbo, lingo, new year, Purim, rsquo, shevat, shidduch, shidduchim, thaw, Yeshiva, yeshivish
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Philosophy of Spiritual Education
By Aryeh Ben David "For education to be truly effective it has to penetrate into the depths of the soul of the student." The Disconnectedness of Standard Jewish Education In my opinion there is a serious problem in Jewish Education … Continue reading
Posted in Aryeh Ben David, Education, Spirituality
Tagged abraham, aish kodesh, approach work, aryeh, cynicism, hassidic masters, jewish education, judging others, knowledgeable educators, pedagogy, personal relevance, quot, rav kook, safe space, spiritual education, supportive environment, talmud, vilna gaon, wisdom of the kabbalah, yeshivot
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Spiritual Education According to the Kabbalah: The Inner Voice of Rav Kook
By Aryeh Ben David "The perpetual prayer of the soul continually tries to emerge from its latent state to become revealed and actualized, to permeate every fiber of life of the entire universe . . . Sudden spiritual clarity comes … Continue reading
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Tagged aryeh, bouts, depression, emptiness, inner voice, intuition, Kabbalah, latent state, lightning bolt, lightning bolts, mystical secrets, perpetual prayer, prayer book, prayer of the soul, rav kook, spiritual clarity, spiritual education, sudden clarity, uniqueness, voice of the soul
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