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Six reasons why you might already be keeping kosher

February 6, 2012 – 9:31 pm | One Comment

By Robert Efraim Bel
So you only buy kosher meat, stay away from crustaceans, never mix meat and milk, and always check the food labels. You try your best but all this is of course a …

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A Distorted Conclusion

December 1, 2011 – 4:41 pm | 48 Comments

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
A Great Story, a Disastrously Distorted Conclusion, or What’s Wrong with Super-Orthodox Thinking
Let me say at the outset, I am making observations about a frailty of humanity ; its ability to inflict on itself outrageous, mind …

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A Disciple or a Mimic?

November 22, 2011 – 10:46 am | One Comment

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
I read that there is a very, very long wait to get Steve Jobs look-alike spectacle frames. I wonder what sort of a thrill, they who wait so patiently, actually experience when they first see …

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Let the Shofar Take You Places

September 8, 2010 – 7:52 am | One Comment

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
May this year be a peaceful year.
A year of challenges that prompt us to discover energies that have perhaps hibernated within us and are ready to blossom.
Everyone wants a sweet new year. …

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Rabbi Rabi reflects on the so-called soft matzah controversy

May 10, 2010 – 4:56 pm | 411 Comments

By Rabbi Meir Rabi
For background on soft matzah see this and this.
I wonder what constitutes a “controversy” or a “controversial pesak”?
Is it the tumult raised by parties who are not impartial?
By those who may have …

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Soft Matzah: Rabbi Rabi Responds to Rabbinical Council Criticism

March 26, 2010 – 10:16 am | 244 Comments

Yesterday Galus published an article by David Werdiger on the new soft, pita-like matzah that is available this year in Australia. As raised by commenters on that article, the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) issued …

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