by Rabbi Yechezkel Fox
The Secret of Change
Why was the passage of the spies placed next to the passage of Miriam? For she was stricken over matters of speech which she spoke against her brother and these wicked ones (the spies) saw (what happened to her) yet did not take a lesson (from her.)—Rashi at the beginning of the parsha.
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by Rabbi Yechezkel Fox
A Retirement Plan from the Torah
The principle of retirement from the workplace has long been accepted amongst the industrial nations of the West. In the U.K.,for example, men retire at 65 and women at 60. In Israel it was recently proposed that men should retire at 67 instead of 65. Is it possible that the ancient Torah would have anything to say about an issue which would seem to be so part and parcel of the modern world?
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