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Devarim – Torah on Rewind
Thank you for voting for your Midrash Manicures! To see the winners, click here. When we first met him back in Parashat Shemot Moshe said to God: “Lo Ish Devarim Anochi, I am not a man of words”...
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VaEtchanan – Bound by Love
“Bind them as a sign upon your hand and let them serve as a symbol between your eyes” (Devarim 6:8). The V’Ahavta paragraph, which is found in Parashat VaEtchanan, describes how we are to internalize...
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Start 5773 In Style & Re’eh: A New Menu
Start 5773 In Style: Have you ordered your High Holidays Nail Decals? Add a pomegranate, shofar, and whale to your fingertips this Rosh HaShanah! Re’eh: A New Menu - Among the many benefits to living...
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Shoftim: An Ax to Grind
The Midrash in Bereshit Rabbah 5:10 teaches that on the third day of creation Gibborim, “strong ones,” were created. According to the Midrash, iron was one of the “strong ones” that was created, along...
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Ki Tetze: Fashion Faux Pas
When I was fifteen, I bought a purple sweater from a local department store. When I went to put the sweater on to wear it, something didn’t feel right. I looked at the tag to discover that it was 60%...
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Ki Tavo: Woven Gifts
Now that Labor Day has arrived, Rosh HaShanah is around the corner! Start off the New Year with High Holidays Nail Decals. These make great gifts for friends and family and even fit into your Shanah...
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Last Chance for Decals & Nitzavim: Open Arms
Are your fingers geared up for 5773? Last call for High Holidays decals! Put the meaning of the Yamim Noraim at your fingertips. Now through Thursday, Buy 2, get 1 half off! For more information,...
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Shanah Tovah & Vayelech: Wonders
Shanah Tovah from Midrash Manicures! May you have a happy and healthy year ahead, full of opportunities for Torah learning and inspiration. Thank you to everyone who ordered High Holidays Nail Decals!...
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Haazinu: Spiritual or Materialistic?
Gmar Chatimah Tovah from Midrash Manicures! What apps have you downloaded for this year’s High Holidays? Check out our iYom Kippur Midrash Manicure and discover how your Midrash Manicures can help you...
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iSukkot & V’Zot HaBrachah
iSukkot Moadim L’Simchah from Midrash Manicures! Let Sukkot be a time for us to begin to recuperate from the intense reflection and repentance that we undertook during the Yamim Noraim. May shaking the...
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Parashat Devarim
Standing on the brink of death, Moshe rebukes the generation before him, but promises that the future generation, those who do not yet know good from bad, will possess the land. The children who...
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Parashat VaEtchanan
“You shall not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it” (Deuteronomy 4:2) At first glance, Moses’ instruction to Bnai Yisrael seems a bit extreme, given that the written Torah...
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Parashat Re’eh
Parashat Re’eh contains a list of “clean” and “unclean” animals which became the basis for practices of keeping kosher today. According to Sue Fishkoff, author of Kosher Nation, only 14% of individuals...
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Parashat Shoftim
The prophet Samuel is notorious for chastising the Jewish people when they asked for a king. In Parashat Shoftim, however, we see that God permits Bnai Yisrael to appoint a king for themselves when...
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Parashat Ki Tetzeh
“Do not take the mother together with her young” (Deuteronomy 22:6) Parashat Ki Tetzeh contains what some might view as an odd commandment, namely, “Shiluach HaKen,” the mitzvah for us to remove the...
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Parashat Ki Tavo
“Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the country.” (Deuteronomy 28:3) The Torah, unlike the character of Carrie Bradshaw from Sex & The City, does not make a judgment call...
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Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech
The Midrash in Devarim Rabbah 8:6 asks “What is the meaning of ‘it is not in the heavens?’”(Deut. 30:12) The Midrash explains that this Pasuk, found in Parashat Nitzavim, is meant to teach that the...
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Rosh HaShanah & Parashat Haazinu
Did you hear that God has gone digital? Moses must have forgotten to mention this in his final speech to the people of Israel mentioned in this week’s Torah portion, Parashat Ha’azinu. This year God...
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V’Zot HaBrachah & Shemini Atzeret
In our whirlwind of holidays in the month of Tishrei, Shemini Atzeret tends to escape the spotlight. Why are we are commanded to celebrate Shemini Atzeret? The Babylonian Talmud in Sukkah 55b tells the...
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Parashat Ekev
“In order to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but that man may live on anything that God decrees.” (Deuteronomy 8:3) While Bnai Yisrael were journeying through the desert God provided...
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