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Facing the Realities

The Arab riots of the past five weeks, on the part of Israeli Arabs as well as the Palestinians, and including consistent attacks on Israelis and their positions with guns, Molotov cocktails and boulders, has been a shock and created new facts on the ground, no less than settlements.

What Will We Eat?
By HaRav Nosson Zeev Grossman

Part II

This article discusses shmitta and the deep lessons that it has for us about Hashem's conduct of the world and our consequent attitudes. In the first part of this article, Rabbi Grossman explained that the modern world is intensely concerned with material affairs and food in particular. However, he explained that one who is a true ben Torah and adopts the Torah attitude towards material life and its sources, will not be unduly disturbed by this question.

The Torah Universe: The Training of the Shrew
by Rabbi Nosson Slifkin

The water shrew is a tiny mammal, roughly resembling a mouse except that it possesses a shorter tail and a much longer snout. It spends much of its time in water, where it hunts for worms and other aquatic insects. So far, unremarkable. The unusual thing about the water shrew is the way in which it navigates.

In Proximity to Avrohom Ovinu
by L. Jungerman

"For she [Hagar] said: Have I also here looked after him that sees me?" Rashi notes that this is in the interrogative, as if to say: `And did I think that even here, in the deserts, I would also see the messenger of Hashem after having seen him in the home of Avrohom? For there, I was accustomed to seeing angels.'

Re: "Let your brother live with you"

To The Editor:

I, as the parent of a girl with Down Syndrome, currently studying in a regular gan, would like to make a few points.

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