Miscellaneous
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Meditation
How exactly do I meditate? What do I meditate about and why?There are different kinds of meditation and each one has a different purpose, so your latter questions are impossible to answer “in a nutshell”. I would start with the…
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Death By Sneezing
Where in the Torah does it discuss sneezing & dying? Where did it originate? I was going to send you the simple references but found this answer on the web written by Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky: “Behold, your father is sick.”…
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To Attain Fear of G-d
What is an action a person a can do every day in order top attain Fear of G-d? Thanks for this question. Every day a Jew should be working on himself. He should be praying, eating kosher, doing mitzvos (commandments),…
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Old Age
In Judaism is there any meaning behind the age 65 or for being a great-grandmother? I am constructing some words to say to my mother, and I’d like them to relate to Judaism. There is only significance in the fact…
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“Kina Hora” and the Evil Eye
Could you please explain the etymology of the words “Kina Hora” and/or “Ein Kina Hora”? Are they Yiddish or Hebrew or a combination of both? How is this expression applied? The phrase to which you refer can be pronounced either…
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Dreams II
What is a dream? What is the meaning of dreams according to Jewish beliefs? Dreams certainly are significant in Jewish belief. According to our Sages a dream is 1/60 of prophecy. In Tractate Brachos of the Babylonian Talmud there is…
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Miscellaneous, Rosh HaShanah, The Calendar and Holidays (incl. Sabbath), The Chumash (Five Books of Moses)
Holiday for the Binding of Isaac
There is a Muslim holiday, called “The Feast of Sacrifice”. To my understanding it’s a celebration of Abraham’s devotion to G_d, about him being so devoted he’d sacrifice his own son. My question is, why don’t Jewish people celebrate this…