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		<title>Individuality and conformity in religious life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; One of the interesting paradoxes of human life is our tendency to copy one another and to try to “fit in” with friends and acquaintances, while simultaneously trying to be distinct from others, and to be our “own person.” The pressures of conformity are very strong in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry for blooming deserts and faith</title>
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		<title>The process of sinning</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb  NEW YORK &#8212; It is a word that one hears frequently these days, in many contexts. The word is &#8220;process.&#8221; It is a word that reflects our growing recognition that there are very few things in this world that occur in an instant, yesh me&#8217;ayin, something out of nothing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blessing for a boy to grow up like other boys</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;The custom is fairly prevalent nowadays, but it was not a common practice thirty years ago when my friend raised his sons. He would seek out especially pious rabbis, generally quite elderly ones, to request that they bless his children. In keeping with tradition, these rabbis would place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does it mean to be holy?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; He never returned phone calls. He certainly never returned e-mails. He rarely smiled. He had very sophisticated tastes in wine and fine liquor. A seven-course gourmet dinner with a wine pairing at each course was almost an everyday occurrence for him. He had the vocabulary of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of solitude</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; “No man is an island.” “It takes a village.” These are just some of the clichés that are used to convey the importance of social groups, of the realization that people cannot “go at it alone”. But just as it is vital that each of us learns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torah teaches that respect for the aged is not enough</title>
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		<title>The necessity of a sincere apology</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;  &#8221;I was wrong. I am sorry. Please forgive me.&#8221; These are rare words indeed, but I heard them pronounced clearly by a woman I once worked for, and whom I still admire. She was the superintendent of a small school district just outside of Washington, DC. Several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judaism not just &#8216;words, words, words&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; &#8220;Words, words, words!&#8221;, he shouted at me. He was a young man, raised as an observant Jew, but now in rebellion against his traditional upbringing. His parents had asked me to meet with him for several sessions to see if I could at least temper his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clothes make the man&#8230; and the woman</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; Whenever I think of people I knew who dressed impeccably, I recall three of my favorite people. One was my maternal grandfather, a businessman who was firmly dedicated to religious observance, but who chose his clothing carefully and was proud of his collection of cufflinks, tie clips, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using discretion in our charitable giving</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK&#8211;Scholars have long disagreed about what distinguishes human beings from the rest of the animal world. Some have argued that it is man&#8217;s intelligence and use of language that distinguishes him; hence the term Homo Sapiens. Others have maintained that it is the fact that he uses tools that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning responsibility early in Torah school</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; I have to thank my dear parents, may they rest in peace, for many things. I must especially thank them for having chosen to provide me with a yeshiva day school education. This was not an obvious choice back in the 1940&#8242;s, for few parents chose the day school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 types of choirmasters, 3 types of leaders</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;Did you ever sing in a choir? If you did, you will easily be able to appreciate what I am about to describe. I well remember singing in a choir, and I recall three different scenarios which occurred in my choir with my choirmaster, who was invariably also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the real essence of Judaism?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; I have been asked questions about my Jewish faith since I was a very young boy. Back then, it was the tow-headed children of the Irish family in whose large summer home we spent our summers who pestered me with questions about the yarmulke on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nations, like people, have stages of growth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; Over the course of the past several years, we have had some marvelous opportunities to visit places where I had once lived. My wife and I had moved away from some of these communities ten or twenty years ago, and in one case, forty years ago. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What qualities led to Moses&#8217; leadership?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; Can you sleep at night? There is so much trouble in the world. Violence, wars large and small, natural disasters, disease. We all personally know many who are suffering at this very moment. Some are friends and acquaintances living in plain sight. Others are individuals in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blessing each other as Jacob did his sons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;It was the last session of the course in which I was utilizing the book of Genesis as a text for the study of leadership. Since it was the final session, I decided that I would structure the discussion in a very different manner. I began by reminding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torah sparks flying in many directions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb  NEW YORK &#8212; My many years of teaching experience have taught me many lessons. One is that when students are encouraged to express their own ideas, they inevitably do so. Moreover, they do so with great creativity and originality. The class that I had been leading on the subject of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph showed early signs of true leadership</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb                                                                                                          NEW YORK &#8212; The class devoted to the study of leadership, using the book of Genesis as a text, was proceeding well. On this, the ninth session, it reached a new depth. It did so by paying careful attention to the subtleties of the Hebrew language.   Hillel, from his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Jacob abusive to Rachel?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; Up until this point, the seventh session of the class using the book of Genesis to explore the concept of leadership, my role as teacher was a very easy one. The students not only participated eagerly, but vied for opportunities to speak. Moreover, they invariably had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noah and Abraham were different kinds of leaders</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;If you are reading this column regularly, you may remember that Miriam was the shy participant in the class that I have been describing. You will surely remember that this was a class in which I used the book of Genesis as a springboard for discussions about leadership.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noach and the lessons of leadership</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;The three women in the class unanimously favored one point of view. The six men were evenly split, three agreeing with the women and three disagreeing vehemently. Last week, I introduced readers of this column to another experiment of mine in which I used the book of Genesis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Genesis as a guide to time management</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; Loyal readers of this weekly column will remember Richard, Leon, and Simon. They were the three young men who signed up for my class on the Book of Genesis, Sefer Bereshit, many years ago. I then used Genesis as the source text for an introductory course on basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are some of us programmed to believe in God?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; I have been an avid reader of books about the psychology of religion since I was an adolescent. I remember going to the local public library and systematically taking out every book on the shelves that related to the topic of the human phenomenon of religious behavior. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repressing our memory of God</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;It was advertised as one symposium at a major psychology conference. It was to be a discussion about memory and forgetfulness. But it turned out to be one of the most intense and instructive days that I have ever witnessed. The first speaker began by insisting that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rabbi who dwelled on what may be forgotten</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; He was one of the greatest Talmud scholars of the last century, but outside of a small circle of disciples, he was never well-known. He was a tragic figure in many ways, and although few have heard of him today, he has not been totally forgotten. Interestingly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To really see, we must desire to see</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; It is a question which I learned never to ask. I first learned this lesson in my training as a psychotherapist, long ago. I was seeing a gentleman for a number of problems, including his marital difficulties. Despite the passage of the years, I still vividly remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guarding against lashon hara in the internet age</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; We have been hearing a lot lately about the dangers of the Internet. Not long ago, thousands of Orthodox Jews gathered in a large sports stadium to publicize the negative consequences that exposure to the Internet has in store for adults and children alike. Most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A parsha for judges and kings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; It is at this point in time that we all begin to realize that the summer is ending. There is something about mid-August that says, &#8220;The summer is waning.&#8221; School children begin to experience the anxieties that come with the anticipation of the return to school; vacationers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty is the subject of two Jewish interpretations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK&#8211; It was another one of those park bench discussions. I hadn&#8217;t seen my old friend Eli for quite some time. We would run into each other every couple of years, not because we planned it, but because we lived in the same city. We both loved to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discipline means setting goals as well as limits</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing. In that capacity, I have frequently been asked to review or give an opinion about any of the plethora of books on the subject of raising one&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obsessions are a form of idolatry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211; I am a worrier. My friends and family tease me about it. I sometimes worry about personal matters, and sometimes about professional concerns. More often, I worry about things that are going on in the community or in the world. I worry about the economy, and I worry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Devarim:&#8217; A sublime autobiography</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK (Press Release)&#8211;There is a biography. And then there is an autobiography. Our biography is the way others see us. Our autobiography is the way we see ourselves. Typically, there are sharp differences between the two. Others see us from their own perspectives. Some biographers can be boldly objective, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When should someone go back on his promise?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;It was a typical park bench conversation. I hadn&#8217;t seen my friend for quite some time, and we both were delighted when we ran into each other by chance that afternoon. We shook hands, and withdrew to a bench in the shade to spend a few minutes together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose example do you follow?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK&#8211;Except for the saints among us, we all boast. Sometimes we boast about our own natural endowments, our good looks, or our athletic prowess. Often we boast about our achievements, social or professional. There is one type of boasting that seems to be unique to the traditional Jewish community. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the voice of the people of Israel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK&#8211; Everyone has his or her own voice. Some express it loudly and clearly; some just mumble or whisper. There are those who let their voices be heard only in their professional lives and are silent and withdrawn at home. Others use their voices only within their families and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we all created equal?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211; I was blessed with the good fortune of having been born as a Jew in the United States of America. I have often reflected upon the meaning of that good fortune. I was born just months after the outbreak of World War II and have often been haunted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing choices made at the crossroads</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb  NEW YORK &#8212; Imagine standing at a crossroads. We have all been there. We have all experienced moments in our life’s journey when we had to make a crucial choice and decide whether to proceed along one road or along another. (Except for Yogi Berra, of course, who famously said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motivating others to give rather than to receive</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;It was a lesson I learned long ago, when I was a high school classroom teacher. I was new at this line of work, and found that my greatest challenge was to find ways to motivate the students. I tried various approaches, which all were basically attempts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On giving&#8211;and receiving&#8211;the priestly blessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 22:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Rabbi Hersh Tzvi Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; I am sure that you have a most favorite activity. I know that I do. I am also sure that you have a least favorite activity, as I do. My most favorite activity is visiting Israel. One of the experiences I especially cherish during my visits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curbing the bully within ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb   NEW YORK &#8211;It is an old word, and it describes a behavior that has been around since the very beginning of history. Yet the word seems to me to be used more and more frequently these days, and the behavior it describes has gotten out of control. The word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How we can distinguish among levels of holiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 07:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK&#8211; It was a year when the holidays fell on the same days of the week as they do this year. The first day of Passover was on a Saturday, a Shabbat, so that Shavuot fell on a Sunday. Saturday night was the beginning of Shavuot. That calendar quirk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons that peddlers have taught to rabbis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; He was a character straight out of the novels of Charles Dickens. Scholars have long found Dickens&#8217; attitude toward Jews problematic. The character Fagin in the novel Oliver Twist is certainly a negative stereotype. But many are unaware of the character named Riah in Dickens&#8217; last completed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aaron remained silent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8211;He was an old man, and in many ways came from a very different world than I. And yet he taught me more than anyone else ever did. One of the things he taught me was that no one suffers as much as a parent who loses a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual conversations with the man sitting next to me</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; For several years now, I have been taking a train to work every day. Not a subway train, mind you, but an old-fashioned inter-city railroad train, complete with a conductor who collects the passengers&#8217; tickets and even shouts, &#8220;All aboard!&#8221; I enjoy my daily train ride [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Courtesy and confidentiality taught in the Torah</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK&#8211; &#8221;There is no such thing as privacy anymore.&#8221; &#8220;There are no secrets anymore.&#8221; These are two complaints that are heard frequently nowadays. We live in a world of cell phones and e-mails, blogs, Facebook and Twitter. We have no privacy, for almost anyone can reach us wherever we are, whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Israelites turned to a Golden Calf</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK &#8212; She was a Hindu princess. She was one of the brightest students in my graduate school class. We studied psychology, and she went on to return to her country and become a psychotherapist of world renown. For our purposes, I shall refer to her as Streena. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those who fail to give charity display callousness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK&#8211; It is something I have noticed just about every election year, and I am always taken aback by it. This year was no different. Inevitably, the major candidates make their income tax reports public. Included in these reports are the contributions to charity that they have made during the [...]]]></description>
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