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Allies, Not Enemies

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 17, 2020February 18, 2020

What is the first thing you do after waking up in the morning? For present…

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  • Literature

Weak Creatures of Clay

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020

Have you ever admired a person and then learned about something they said or did,…

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  • Literature

The Element of the Sacred

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on February 3, 2020February 4, 2020

A few days ago, I was putting away my second set of tefillin, when I…

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  • Literature

For Every Crooked Politician

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Beginning in the ninth grade, I took Latin each year in school until I graduated…

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  • Literature

Books, Covers, and Masks

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 20, 2020January 20, 2020

I own an edition of The Harvard Classics. One of the frustrating things about it is…

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With Eyes That Could Not See

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

Walking home after Morning Prayers, I pass a spot where a kind-hearted woman feeds homeless…

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  • Philosophy

Far More Pain Than Contentment

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 6, 2020September 22, 2020

In the 3rd century BCE, a Greek named Pyrrhus ruled an area in the western…

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  • Bible

How to Count Family

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 30, 2019September 15, 2020

One summer, while vacationing in New Brunswick, Canada, I took a ferry from the mainland…

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  • Pride

Except for Pride

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 23, 2019

One day when I was in elementary school—the fifth grade, I believe—I was walking down…

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  • Bible

Of Dreams and Dreamers

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 17, 2019December 18, 2019

In November 1915, in a prison in the state of Utah, a firing squad executed…

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