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6 on a scale of 1 to 10?

Posted on 2011/10/06 by davka

judge every­one, how? In Pirke Avot 1:6, R. Joshua ben Per­achi­ah says: והוי דן את כל האדם לכף זכות The phrase is var­i­ous­ly trans­lat­ed as: judge every man in the scale of mer­it judge every man towards mer­it Judge every per­son favor­ably Give … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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now is the time for change

Posted on 2011/09/03 by davka

the month of elul אלול has begun. Bradley Burston writes: in Israel, the future can come down to just one night Actu­al­ly, every­where in the world our future is deter­mined by the actions at each of the moments we live them. Nonethe­less, … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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