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Personal and national grief in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron
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How is identity created. Do we brainwash our children?
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Pirke Avot 6.5, study Torah, inheritance, legacy
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Achashverosh, vashti, haman, Mordechai, Esther, Megillah, Purim character study
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Expertise in your own city, hiring consultants, outside speakers
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Avot 4 25-27, education, old wine in new bottles
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Hannukah, cultural appropriation, Chanukah, Christmas
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Avot 23-24, not celebrating the defeat of your enemy
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Study, money, Avot 4 11-13, work life balance, teshuva, repentance
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Trauma, listening, support, support troops, hostage, helping Israel
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Judge, opinions, beliefs, facts, cognitive dissonance
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Why people want to help when there is a tragedy and practical tips fir things we can do.
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Avot 4:4-6. Aspirational self, fake it till you make it, learning
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Belief in G-d, Judaism belief, why bad things happen
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Virtuos and vicious cycles. Respect, Avot 4, learning from everyone
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Parenting, Judaism, ritual, expectations, limits, shul, davening, teen minyan
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Wisdom, silence, desecration, Reform Judaism, atheism, public shaming, tradition, fence
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Hate, love, child raising, emotions, relationships, relationship with G-d, generations,
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Wisdom, arrogance, foolishness, personable, middot, manners,
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Memory, Avot 3.9, Avot 3.10, learning, distractions
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Bathroom, Avot 3.7, separations, appropriate timing, boundaries, praising the mundane, Godliness, owned by God
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Changing prayers, women and men, slaves, grateful for what you are not, birchot hashachar
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Avot 3.3, sharing words of Torah, learning Torah, worry, sitting with oneself
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Government, fear of punishment, negative rewards, Avot chapter 3, pirke Avot,
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Hard work, Avot 19, Avot 20, apikorsim, heretics
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Prayer, self esteem, self worth, power of prayer
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Other people’s money, ethical will, legacy, tradition, honor, trustworthiness
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Evil eye, evil inclination, hating people, Avot 2.16,
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3 weeks, shiva asar b’tamuz, baseless hatred, free love, tisha b’av
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Avot 2.15, teaching, trauma response, authoritarian vs friendly instruction, viduy, day you die
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Death in Judaism, right path, good heart, Avot 2.13,
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More money more problems?, Gluttony, too much stuff, the world to come, too much of a good thing, experience vs materialism
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The bashful does not learn, in a place where there are no men be a man
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Community, judging others, pirke Avot chapter 2 Mishnah 5,
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Making your will like G-do’s will, faith vs belief, bitachon, emunah, perspective shifting
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Order of Seder, vengeance vs gratitude, who knows 1, chad gadya, next year in Jerusalem
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Politics, honesty in politics, liars in politics
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Derech eretz as work vs behavior, community standards, working on behalf of the community
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Discussing big mitzvot vs little mitzvot, rebbe Yehuda hanasi, public vs private behavior, Jewish pagination
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Midrash on Achashverosh’s party, did vashti have a tail?
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Pirke Avot, truth, justice, peace, Kaddish, world to come vs present world, justice vs judgement
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Silence is golden, sound of silence, wisdom vs knowledge, pirke Avot, importance of action
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Fix a time for Torah, schedules, actions speak louder than words, say little do a lot, be welcoming
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Avot 14:1 if I am not for myself, who am I? Self care, selfless vs selfish, mistakes vs failure, fear of failure, fear of success, perfectionism. Enjoying life. Simchat ha Chaim
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Is fame real or fleeting?, use your learning or lose it.
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Watch your words, words can kill, words that heal, cancel culture, ethical research, experiments done in the Holocaust
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Work vs kollel, humility, productive work, volunteering
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Mishna, pirke avot 1:8, mishna vs Halacha, judging
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Evil people, bad neighbor, why do bad things happen to good people, why do good things happen to bad people
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Judge favorably, perspective, take a friend, make a teacher, listen to your Rabbi, Pirkei Avot 1.6
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Talking to women, relationships, marriage, platonic friendships
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Asking questions, making mistakes, Judaism, Pirkei avot 1.4
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Rewards, punishment, contingency management, learning, rewarding kids,
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Torah, service, work, kindness to others, growth, Pirkei avot, continuing education
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Halloween, thanksgiving, no Jewish holidays, non-Jewish holidays
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Intimacy, why 2 days and holiday order, calendar dates, when Shabbat and Yomyov collide
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Hoshanot, why sukkot?, 4 species, happy holiday?
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Imposter syndrome, leadership, standards for individual and group, complimenting and critiquing people, who wrote the end of the Torah?,
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Is Yom Kippur a happy or sad day? What is the meaning of life?
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Milah of the heart, teshuva, repentance, forgiveness, good intentions, acceptance, Torah as accessible
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Kingship, memory, shofar, forgiveness, apologies, making the holidays meaningful
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Kicking out your child, order of the parsha, inconsistency with forefathers, what if you hate your wife?, hated child, setting boundaries
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False prophets, hierarchy in leadership, king Solomon and too many wives
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Internal vs external motivation, g-d as the boss, water
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Intro, repetition, recall bias, support systems
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Souvenirs, vows, tribes, listening, compromise,
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Elazar and red heifer, traveling in the dessert, expectations of leaders
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Leadership and upstarts, tyranny, circle of life
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Leviim, complaining, second chances, bystanders,
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Primacy, responsibility vs fixing, emotional separation,
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Hard boundaries, dedicating yourself and others, lag b’omer
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Kohanim with blemishes, expectations for our leaders, the death penalty in the Torah
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Holiness and separation, love your neighbor and yourself, not following the people of Canaan
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Community standards, condolences dos and donts, reading in Israel vs states
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Breaking the public trust, discharges, special parshiyot
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Transparency, creative work, living primer/50,000 ft view
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Egel Hazahav implications, small steps, donations
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Vestments, lineage, inauguration of the priest, timeline of the mishkan
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Donations, physical reminders, Kruvim/not idolatry, instructions for building your very own mishkan
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Rights, expectations, individual vs society needs/wants
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Chronology, mixed messages, self care, 10 commandments
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Other gods, hitting rock bottom, breaking the 4th wall, 4 sons
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Revenge vs consequences, 10 plagues, and reassurance, snakes vs crocs.
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Lying, Shalom bayit, & the problem with Midrash
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Communication, middle child syndrome, and responsibility vs reward
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Managing expectations and who is the real Lavan?
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Self Care, Negotiating with G-d, Talking to G-d
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Schadenfreude is not a Jewish concept, Did Noach have PTSD, and what is the purpose of Midrash?
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What do our senses tell us and what does Judaism say about the Big Bang?
