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Thursday, December 20, 2012
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No Kabbalistic, Chassidic or Brisker Torah. No pshetlach, vertlach, pilpul or drush. No dikduk, mechkar, parshanut or apologetics either. Just reading the Torah with an ear for what the Parsha and Moadim are saying to you and me today.
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