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Shelach 5766 - June 23, 2006

Dough

Before baking her toil, talent and thaler into bread for herself and her family, she pinches off a choice bit . . .
Parshah
Shelach in a Nutshell
The twelve spies return with giant fruit, frightening the Jewish people, who complain and receive a severe punishment. Laws of challah and tzitzit. A man publically desecrates Shabbat, and is put to death.
We’ve Got a Grape Show!

When Moses sent spies to scout the land of Israel, they saw giant grapes, got scared, and ran away. In this edition of the Week in Rejew, Jono interviews one of them (one of the giant grapes, that is).
Story
The Mystery of the Troubled Wool Merchant

In the days that followed, the chassidim hotly debated the significance of their rebbe’s final words. Various theories were offered on the Kabbalistic meanings of “wool,” “summer” and “handsome profit.”
Can a Pet be "Family"?

I am giving up on humans. Why can't I find a man as loyal as my dog?
My Mother, My Child

I am a mother. I'm just a different kind of mother. I did not give birth to my child. She was not young in age, but was nevertheless someone who needed to be mothered...
Two people who sit and exchange words of Torah, the Divine Presence rests amongst them
— Ethics of the Fathers 3:2: