The Shul Files

When I was in third grade, I received a book in Religious School called Israel and Me. Many a year and quite a few books later, I can’t help but laugh at this book and how rediculous it was. Take all of the complexities and boil it down to pictures of beautiful women on beaches, [...]

K-K-Kibbutz, here I come.

“Elohai n’tzur l’shoni m’ra” ~ O Lord, Guide my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking guile.
Three times a day we recite this phrase at the end of the Amidah.
The Talmud teaches that worse than murder, is slander, because it kills three: “the teller, the listener and the victim.
I’m at a restaurant with [...]