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Vizos Habrachah - The Bridge Idea - Cross-Currents
The Chasam Sofer notes that the Torah’s last word, “Yisrael” and its first one, “Braishis,” share the letters aleph, shin, resh and yud… spelling ashrei....
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https://cross-currents.com/2025/09/15/nitzavim-putting-a-hold-on-gold/
Nitzavim - Putting a Hold on Gold - Cross-Currents
There is idol worship and there is idol worship. As Rav Elchonon Wasserman wrote, even today, when the urge to worship literal idols is absent, there are a...
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https://cross-currents.com/2025/09/21/vayeilech-complementary-curses/
Vayeilech - Complementary Curses - Cross-Currents
The fact that the word tzaros in the phrase ra’os rabbos vitzaros – “many evils and troubles” (Devarim, 31:21) can mean not only “evils” but also...
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Processing the Rally - Cross-Currents
If you still haven’t figured out whether the rally was a good thing, a bad thing, or both – you might be interested in the latest episode of my podcast, Two...
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