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A Strongly-Marked Picture

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on August 19, 2019August 20, 2019

In his essay, “Circles,” Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th-century American lecturer, poet, and philosopher, wrote:…

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A Token for His Protection

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on August 13, 2019August 14, 2019

In Chapter 3 of The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin describes his work identifying…

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  • Literature

The Readiness Is All

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

I was eleven years old when my mother enrolled me in the Boy Scouts of…

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  • Philosophy

Where Are You Standing?

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on July 22, 2019July 24, 2019

Once, after accompanying my wife to the train station, I got lost walking home. Fortunately,…

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  • Philosophy

Are You Turning Play into Work?

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on July 18, 2019

In chapter 2 of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom gets a group…

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  • Philosophy

Football and Free Will

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on July 14, 2019July 15, 2019

In “Seven Pillars of Faith,” Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, a devoted follower of Rebbe Nachman of…

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  • Literature

What Evidence Would You Have?

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on July 9, 2019July 10, 2019

Do you believe in ghosts, shades, spirits? Do you think you have a soul that…

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  • Music

Life’s Crooked Road

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on June 26, 2019July 25, 2019

Some of my fondest memories as a child are of my mother’s singing to me.…

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A Real Possession

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on June 16, 2019June 16, 2019

In the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ta’anis, we find a story about a man named Abba…

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  • Philosophy

Don’t Blame Me

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on June 11, 2019June 13, 2019

In the third chapter of the biblical book of Genesis, we read an intriguing story…

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