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emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 9 Jul 24

Rabbi Ernev Brunstein, was seated outside, one Saturday afternoon, talking to his student, about Satan. He told him that the Jewish idea of who Satan was is different to the idea held by most Christians. The Devil is not...

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Short Story: The pipe-smoking Rabbi

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 15 Sep 23

Rabbi Anton Bresneth, loved to smoke a pipe. He had indulged in this habit for many years, when it finally caught up with him, this unhealthy habit. He got a mouth cancer, and he died. On his deathbed, he said....

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Short story: The value of repetition, and its role in our life

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 10 Aug 23

Rabbi Astek Ludovich, was talking to his students about repetition. He said that repetition plays a big part in every life. Here is how he put it: "We eat, we sleep, we breathe, we commute, we work, we cut the...

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Short Story: A Rabbi changes his outlook from one of lawful rightness, to one of open lovingness

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 22 Jul 23

Rabbi Ernest Shimroz, was a bit of a stickler for following the laws, of his people. He said that at no time should these laws not be followed. And in the Jewish religion, there was a lot of these laws to follow. Then...

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Short Story: Divine silence

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 3 Jun 23

Rabbi Artrevo Goldstein, was talking about the need for silence, and not just silence in ourselves, but about the idea of divine silence. "God is mostly silent from us," he said. Then, he went on to say: [b]"God is...

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Short story: The connection of the mind, and the heart.

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 16 Mar 23

The old Jewish Rabbi, Rabbi Cretor Reuskin, had the reputation of being a bit of a character. He was obstinate, stubborn, and stiff-necked, in the way that he stuck to his principles. And yet, on the other hand, he was by...

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Short story: The robbing Rabbi, was painted as still being a robber, by other Rabbi's

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 20 Nov 22

Rabbi Adona Schumell, had once been a robber. Upon becoming a Rabbi, he, of course, returned all of his previously stolen goods, back to their owners, which took him a long time to do. He had fallen in love with a...

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Short Story: The Rabbi talks to his students on Personality Types

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 3 Mar 22

Rabbi Usherle Jacobsman, had prepared a talk for his students on personality types. Here is what he said to them: "Our personality resists all of our efforts to change it." [b]"We are born with a certain tendency...

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A short story about the bike riding Rabbi

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 12 Sep 21

Rabbi Anton Grexsnev, used to love to ride his old pushbike around his village, stopping to chat with anybody, who seemed troubled by something. One such day, he was riding along, and he saw an old man, seated under a...

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Short story: A Rabbi's talk on love is upstaged by a young boy

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 20 Jul 21

Rabbi Arlet Resklacke was talking to his group of students about love. He was talking rather heavily, and he had lost some of his students along the way of his talk. [b]"Love lives alone in you until you live alone in...

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Short Story: The Rabbi met an angel, but thought she was a nutter.

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 18 Jul 21

Rabbi Schluemann, was a perceptive man, and wherever he went, he could perceive a fellow-man, or woman, of God. He could feel the holiness in them, the pureness, of their hearts, and the love, pouring from it, to all...

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Short Story: A Jewish tale. A scholar meets a non-scholar, and is bested

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 7 Apr 21

Rabbi Anton Breshnev was a great scholar, and interpreter, of the Jewish Talmud. He studied long and hard, and he got great pleasure telling others of what he thought were his own original ideas. Another illiterate Jewish...

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Short story: The Jewish Rabbi, Ernest Rufdergh, does some speculation, about life, God, and love.

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 14 Mar 21

“Love is the gravity that pulls the universe together. Hatred is the anti-matter that rips it apart.” That's a quote from the American Rabbi, Shmuley Boteach. Rabbi Ernest Rufdergh stated it more simply like...

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Research Materials /Antique Books

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 23 Aug 19

I’ve found some great research materials for Broken Beginnings while sifting through the many, many, many books donated lol! I am hoping to get a start on them after all the Yard Sale Stuff is done! In the meantime I am...

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Have you ever eaten latkes?

The Horse @TheHorse (238325) • Walnut Creek, California 6 Dec 18

I had latkes for breakfast the other morning. They were very good. I didn't have the time to make them from scratch, so I bought frozen ones from Trader Joe's, and heated them up in the oven. Latkes are a traditional Jewish dish....

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How can I refuse this Good Christian Woman? And an Easter-related follow-up question.

The Horse @TheHorse (238325) • Walnut Creek, California 31 Mar 18

I just received an email from a good Christian woman who is dying of cancer and wants me to put her late husband's $4,500,000 to good use. Of course, I can't refuse her, so I will send her my bank information immediately, to...

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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tale The Prioresses Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 24 Jan 18

The Prioress offers a loud, excessively pious prayer for the skill and ability to tell her story well and then launches immediately into the most controversial story in the Canterbury Tales, given its anti-Semitic tone and child...

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A New Beginning

Miroslav Burtnik @Miro1994 (20) 19 Dec 16

Hello everyone. I'll tell you a little about the creation of the world and humanity how it all started. Jewish side (of course I would love to hear from any other party). Our world was created by faith before 5777. So how was the...

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The power of prayer. Or something like that.

The Horse @TheHorse (238325) • Walnut Creek, California 8 Oct 16

I had a funny and enjoyable experience yesterday at the preschool in Berkeley. One of my young friends had been told, No, you can't play with us! by two of her peers. She did what any sensible 3-year-old would do: She climbed the...

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Why the Jews

Four Walls @FourWalls (86755) • United States 29 Oct 15

Why the Jews is the title of a book from a few years ago, written by Dennis Prager, exploring the various reasons for antisemitism in the world. It's one of the most puzzling things on earth, to me: people who make up less...

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