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		<title>Sigd &#8211; An Ethiopian Jewish Holiday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin The Jewish calendar is a treasure that has many jewels. We all enjoy our holidays, repent during the fast days, and try to remember what the next event in the calendar is in order to get ready for it. Have you ever heard of a celebration called Sigd? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David ben Gurion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did You Know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin David Ben Gurion was born with the name David Grüen on October 16, 1886, in Plonsk, Poland. In 1910 in a magazine called “Achdut” (Unity), he publicized an article for the first time under his new name. Where does his name come from? Maybe the following story from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nehushtan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did You Know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin A snake is an animal that is usually associated to the words poison, bite, fear, death. In the Bible the first impression that we have is that the serpent is not the best company you can get.  We read “Now the serpent was craftier than any of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Health &#8211; Libriut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did You Know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin Sneezing is something that happens to every human being and also some animals. A mysterious and fascinating thing happens when we sneeze; we close our eyes.  Nobody can sneeze without closing the eyes. But even more interesting is that if someone hears us sneeze, he or she automatically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The word Amen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did You Know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin One of the words we repeat the most during religious services is Amen.  Amen is translated as: “it is true” or “may it become true” or “so be it.” Amen is found in the Torah only four times and no more than thirty in the entire Bible.  Amen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did You Know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin Careful reading of the Torah is important to avoid making big mistakes. One of these mistakes is the belief that Adam named all the animals in one day. Many people say he couldn&#8217;t name every animal in the world in just one day. They are right!!! Because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yashar Koach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did You Know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin The most common way to congratulate somebody after a simcha (a happy moment) in that person’s life is Mazal tov. A Bar/Bat mitzvah, the birth of a child or grand child, a wedding or any other special moment deserves the good wishes of Mazal tov.  Sometimes we even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The word Selah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did You Know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin The Gemara (Berachot 8a) teaches, &#8220;One should always finish the Parshiot with the community [by studying] Shnayim Mikra V&#8217;echad Targum (the Parsha twice and Onkelos’ translation once).&#8221; This statement is the source of the obligation for every Jew to study the parasha (the weekly portion) and its translation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kippah – Yarmulke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know? By Rabbi Fabian Werbin There is a simple act that most of the Jews do when they enter a synagogue, they wear a kippah, or a yarmulke. Were does the word yarmulke come from? What is a yarmulke? What is the minimal size of a yarmulke? Why don’t we say a blessing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sandak-Godfather</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1972, the movie “The Godfather,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola, won three Oscar Academy Awards.  Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton among others starred in that movie. It is one of the greatest gangsters movies ever.

The Godfather represents a completely different image in our Jewish tradition.

For the Jewish people, the Sandak (Godfather) is the person who holds the baby during a circumcision. Being the Sandak is a great honor. There is a very traditional belief that the Sandak (who should be any adult Jewish male) blesses other people on the day of the circumcision. After the ceremony, people make a line to receive the Sandak’s blessing...]]></description>
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