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“Dad,” Ben asked. He was a serious boy and something had struck him during the brief encounter. “Why did you cut it so short with your boss? Don’t you have plenty of things to discuss with him?”
And Moses assembled all the congregation of the Children of Israel and said unto them: "These are the words which G-d has commanded that you should do them. Six days shall work be done but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of ...
Letters and Numbers of Torah - Vayakhel
In the beginning of this week's portion, Moses gathers the Jews together and tells them (Exodus 35:1): "These are the things that G-d commands to do." In this verse, the word "to do" (la'asot) is missing the letter vav. How does our labor during the work ...
A Taste of Text—Vayakhel
Do you define yourself by who you are, or by what you do?
Practical Parshah - Vayakhel
“Six days shall you work…” How does one actually rest on Shabbat?
Although the halachic authorities concur that electricity per se is not considered fire, it is nevertheless universally agreed upon that one may not operate electrical appliances on Shabbat. There are various reasons offered for this...
What is “work”? If life is synonymous with creativity, is Shabbat a time outside life? What is the deeper significance of the curious Talmudic phrase, “forty labors minus one”?
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