Two Minutes of Torah: Vayetzei - Divine Karma

It would be nice to imagine that our world works according to the principles of karma; that people's good actions would be rewarded, an...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Vaetchanan - Compassionate Punishment

In the movie Con Air - about a group of prisoners being transported on an airplane – at one point John Cusack’s character quotes Theodore D...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Bechukotai - Rewards

Our daughter Gabby is now at an age where we’ve started to negotiate a little bit in order to get her to do certain things.  In this way sh...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim - Getting away with it

When we’re young, as children, we learn the difference between right and wrong and that in many ways, in life, we have choices to make.  We...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Bo - Maturing with Age

When I first watched Return of the Jedi, I don’t recall feeling much sympathy for Darth Vader when, and I’m sorry if I’m spoiling it, he di...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Haazinu - On Eagle's Wings

Sometimes when watching nature programs, I marvel at the majesty and the beauty of the creatures being displayed (often with Sir David Atte...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Haazinu - Holding his Head High

On the television show The Apprentice the important moment in each episode comes at the end as Donald Trump tells one of the contestants: “Y...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Bechukotai - Walking the Walk

One of those school classes which has always stuck in my mind is the one where we learnt about the carrot and stick approach to situations. ...

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