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Shrek, Harry Potter & Parshat Balak
ByRabbi Jason Miller July 6, 2012May 11, 2021

Several years ago I sat in a movie theater with my then three-year-old son and my father. I couldn’t get over the fact that all three of us were enjoying the same movie so much. Each of us represents a different generation and therefore has different tastes and different senses of what is funny. But…

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Ethics | Holidays | Lessons | Morals | Moses | Mussar | Omer | Spirituality | Torah

Do-overs and Learning From Mistakes
ByRabbi Jason Miller April 12, 2012April 5, 2015

This is my contribution to the HuffPost Religion’s Omer Liveblog, which features blogs, prayers, art and reflections for all 49 days of spiritual reflection between Passover and Shavuot: “The broken tablets were put with the new ones into the Ark.” –Talmud, Menachot 99a What can we learn from the fact that Moses put the broken…

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Re’eh – Giving Blessings Not Curses
ByRabbi Jason Miller August 26, 2011

It has become very common for businesses and organizations to send out weekly email messages to their list of subscribers. There is nothing unusual about that. But I’ve noticed an increasing number of individuals who have begun to share their own wisdom and commentary on the issues of the day with their friends and family….

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Perfection is Hard to Come By
ByRabbi Jason Miller June 3, 2010

While I often write about sports on this blog, I have always done so through a Jewish perspective. In fact, everything I write on this blog I write through a Jewish perspective. So, why am I writing about last night’s Detroit Tigers baseball game in which pitcher Armando Galarraga had a perfect game until the…

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