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Professor Adina Broder, MS, JD, teaches at Touro Graduate School and Shulamith High School. She presents for the OU Women’s Initiative and authored Meaningful Kinnos, Meaningful Viduy and Viduy Booklet for Kids.
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By Adina Broder
People may have varied religious practices, ideologies, or political views. They may come from different backgrounds, affiliations and persuasions. But this doesn’t mean that there needs to be strife between us.
By Adina Broder
While intelligence can be innate and knowledge can be acquired relatively quickly, wisdom tends to develop over time.
By Adina Broder
The word legacy often carries a sense of weight, as though it belongs to those who have accomplished something historic or have reshaped the world in some monumental way.
By Adina Broder
Angels are perfect in obedience, yet they lack free will. This leads to a paradox: while it is true that they are incapable of sinning, they are also unable to choose virtue, being forced to comply with their directives without the option to disobey.
By Adina Broder
One might wonder how a person like Nevuzardan could be absolved for his many heinous crimes. The answer is that Hashem forgives anyone who is sincere in his repentance.
By Adina Broder
Being ungrateful is not simply a bad characteristic; it is antithetical to Judaism.
By Adina Broder
When confronted by Leah’s harsh words, Rachel certainly could have argued back, showing how she, not Leah, was the victim in this situation. She now had to share her husband, when she could have had him all to herself.
By Adina Broder
The respect component of the relationship comes from appreciating the other person’s differences – when you admire, or at least accept, the qualities your spouse has that you don’t.
By Adina Broder
Since real truth is unique to Hashem, the word emes is considered Hashem’s seal or signature.
By Adina Broder
Forgiveness by our fellow man results in him putting aside his pain and resentment, even though those feelings were justified. This is an incredible act of emotional generosity.
By Adina Broder
Just as a mourner would find a cheerful greeting to be out of touch with what he is experiencing, that is how we should feel on Tisha B’Av.
By Adina Broder
Educators need to teach from the heart in order to have the greatest impact on their students. This requires teaching with sincerity, patience and empathy, which creates a nurturing environment in which students feel safe to question, explore and create.
By Adina Broder
Mistakes are evidence of effort. They show that we attempted to do something. Even though things didn’t work out as anticipated or hoped, at least we took a chance which provided us with the possibility of success.
By Adina Broder
Since Hashem had all of this foreknowledge, wouldn’t it have been kinder for Him to create a small, weak animal to deposit in the thicket for Avraham to find?
By Adina Broder
The pain from a loss is often expressed as bitterness and outrage. Part of this anger is based on the feeling that what happened wasn’t fair.
By Adina Broder
Having exhausted the possible correlations between the three holidays, Rabbi Lauer suggests that it is not the similarities among these three holidays that define them as a unit. Rather, it is the fact that these holidays are all components of a greater whole.
By Adina Broder
Like the lecturer who begins with a joke as a way to warm up his audience, Rabbi Kurland intends for the humorous anecdotes to make the reader more receptive to the words of mussar that follow.
By Adina Broder
She taught me to love: learning Torah; the power of tefilah; the beauty of Shabbos; our homeland, Eretz Yisrael;
