Tag: boundaries
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This past week was Pesach Sheni, the “second Passover,” and it offers us a powerful window into something much deeper than makeup offerings and second chances. We learn about Pesach Sheni through the story of a group of men who were tamei (ritually impure) and couldn’t bring the Korban Pesach at the proper time. They…
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There’s a powerful line we sing in Shabbos zemer “Ma Yedidut”. When singing about the beauty of Shabbat, we say “Kashoshanim suga,”, Shabbat is “like roses that are fenced in.” Think about that—a rose, fragile and beautiful, needs a fence to protect it. Shabbos is no different. It’s sacred not just because of what it…
