Mussar/Soul Traits/Character

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Devarim: Just Say Yes

By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell | 09/22/2025 |

Devarim: Just Say Yes Well, it’s the beginning of the end. No, not in our culture, though you might feel that way. I mean in our weekly Torah reading. This week we read Parshat Devarim, the first selection in the 5th and final book of the Torah, Deuteronomy. The entire…

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My Life in Quotes- #101-110

By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell | 09/15/2025 |

101. Though joy is better than sorrow, Joy is not great; Peace is great, strength is great Not for joy the stars burn        Not for joy the vulture Spreads her gray sails on the air Over the mountain; Not for joy the worn mountain Stands, while the years like water…

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My Life in Quotes- #91-100

By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell | 09/02/2025 |

91. “Religion- the relatively modest dogma that God is not mad.”- Salvador de Madariaga  Though sometimes it seems that way, doesn’t it.  The incomprehensible variety of the creation, not to mention the inexplicable challenges life brings, both could lead us to question the sanity of the Creator.  Without descending into…

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Devarim: Just Say Yes

By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell | 08/17/2025 |

Devarim: Just Say Yes         Well, it’s the beginning of the end.  No, not in our culture, though you might feel that way.  I mean in our weekly Torah reading.  This week we read Parshat Devarim, the first selection in the 5th and final book of the Torah, Deuteronomy.         …