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Safe Space: When Love Starts To Look Like Enabling

4+ hour, 43+ min ago  (611+ words) By: Jessica Steinmetz, LMHC, CASAC-G My family keeps telling me I'm enabling my spouse's drinking, but I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just trying to keep my household running. I make sure everything gets done when he's not functional. I…...

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Musings Of A Shliach From Montana

4+ hour, 37+ min ago  (212+ words) Biur Chometz in Bozeman, Montana The Bozeman Community Seder A picture of the gathered at the Whitehall Community Library The Rebbe went on to explain that our message to the'rasha'is incredibly positive. We let him know that while in Egypt,…...

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5tjt. com > lingering-tastes-of-passover

Lingering Tastes Of Passover

22+ hour, 41+ min ago  (768+ words) Most of us are familiar with the passage in the'Haggadah'that one is obligated to view himself as if he had gone out of Egypt. The view of the Rambam is that a person should demonstrate this in such a way…...

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5tjt. com > after-the-matzah-settles-when-post-pesach-pounds-meet-plastic-surgery

After The Matzah Settles: When Post-Pesach Pounds Meet Plastic Surgery

22+ hour, 35+ min ago  (284+ words) By B. Aviva Preminger, MD, MPH, FACS We feel heavier. We feel bloated. We look in the mirror wondering what happened. In my office, the weeks after Pesach are always busy. Patients come in saying the same thing, "I don't know…...

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5tjt. com > the-space-we-cant-fill

The Space We Can't Fill

22+ hour, 21+ min ago  (843+ words) As for me, there was another layer that I didn't fully articulate yet felt constantly: the pull to make it work for everybody. To find the version that satisfied everyone. To create something that felt whole even when I knew…...

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5tjt. com > finding-the-good-in-whatever-hashem-brings

Finding The Good In Whatever Hashem Brings

22+ hour, 42+ min ago  (865+ words) By R" Mordechai Young Yosef went to the doctor and heard there was good news. Then he asked to hear the bad news. But the doctor told him there was not bad news, only good. Yosef was stumped, but the…...

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5tjt. com > an-empty-seat-at-the-seder

An Empty Seat At The Seder

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (687+ words) I've written a lot about my brother Binyomin and the fact that he passed away almost a half year ago. It was just a few days after Sukkos, after we had celebrated a beautiful and long'yom tov'in Jerusalem with a…...

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They Torch. We Build.

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (530+ words) As war rages in the Middle East and missiles rain down on Israel, the Jewish State is fighting not only for survival on the battlefield but also for its standing in the court of public opinion. But Jews around the…...

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5tjt. com > festival-of-redemption

Festival Of Redemption

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (792+ words) In the month of'Nisan'we were redeemed, and in the month of'Nisan'we will be redeemed. Tractate Rosh Hashanah In the past, I have used this space to discuss aspects of the'Seder'night. Oftentimes I'll just write a story, knowing how much Torah…...

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5tjt. com > jews-and-muslims-headline-congressional-passover-seder-spotlighting-sarajevo-haggadah

Jews And Muslims Headline Congressional Passover Seder Spotlighting Sarajevo Haggadah

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (352+ words) By Pinchus ben Tzvi Replica of the original Sarahevo Haggadah A Congressional Passover'Seder'held on March 24 placed the spotlight on the'Sarajevo'Haggadah, a centuries-old Passover text widely viewed as a symbol of interfaith cooperation and moral courage, as lawmakers and international guests…...