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BINA Living: Rabbi Levi Gourarie

This month’s classes:

Thursday, December 5
Thursday Morning Personal Growth for Women
BINA Living
Starts 9:20AM
There's a Branch Right Near You

Question: Someone asked me why we wave the Lulav in six directions – right, left, forward, up, down, backward. I didn’t really know…

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What is the Biggest Threat to Judaism?

Question:I am teaching a high school class about threats to Judaism in the modern world. What do you see as the biggest threat to Jewish survival?

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Want Good Return on your Honey?

Question: Every year on the night of Rosh Hashana, I like to share with my family a new thought about why we dip apple in honey…

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Overcome Your Fear of Dogs

Question: Why are religious Jews scared of dogs? Whenever I walk mine past a frum family, all the kids hide behind their mother’s skirt in terror…


 

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NOT NAIVE JUST LOVING

A gentile seeking to convert to Judaism once approached the great sage Hillel and said: “Teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot.”…

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The Matchmaker's Secret

Question: I guess I wasn’t supposed to be a matchmaker. I set up five couples, and none of them worked out. Most of them said I wasn’t even close…

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A matter of convenience?

In this week’s Torah portion G-d instructs the people that after entering the holy land they are to appoint a Jewish king for themselves…

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How Did Reproduction Evolve?

Question: I’ll tell you why I prefer science over religion. The Bible is riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies. To accept it you…

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Can a Pregnant Woman Enter a Cemetery?

Question:I am currently 7 months pregnant, and a good friend’s tombstone consecration is coming up next week. I am not sure whether or not to go…

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Your smelly soul

Question: What is the significance of the sniffing at the spices (“besamim”) during the Havdalah ceremony at the conclusion of Shabbat?

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A VERB - NOT JUST A NOUN

Last week we suggested that gratitude is not a response to something positive, but rather a constant mindset and feeling of gratefulness for all the gifts…

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Of Rodents and Relationships

Question: I have a problem with organised religion. Light candles, go to shul, eat this, don’t eat that etc etc. What sort of G-d demands these things from us?

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