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People of Iran, I know there is very little we can do physically from the outside, and what is happening right now is unbearable. We are praying for your safety, for an end to bloodshed, and for the downfall of a brutal regime. Jewish history teaches us something we hold onto with our lives: evil does not last. Whether salvation comes now or later, it will come. The sea does split. There will be a song again.

Our story of freedom began with one word: Vayizaku — they cried out. Crying out matters. Prayer matters. The Jewish people are a people sustained by tefillah, and our tradition teaches that the gates of tears are never closed. Hashem hears groans, hears pain, and hears truth. We are listening to your stories, we stand with you, and we pray that heavenly compassion and real, tangible help bring freedom and healing.

#Iran #Freedom #Judaism #Prayer #HumanRights

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This video is permission. Permission to be ambitious, goal-oriented, and to work hard in every area of life for six days. And it’s also permission to stop. Shabbos is the weekly practice of believing that, right now, everything is whole and complete. Nothing more to fix, nothing more to achieve. We pause, we rest, and we let ourselves be exactly where we are. That pause is what gives us the strength to keep going. Shabbat Shalom.

#Shabbos #Judaism #Torah #Peace #Wholeness

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If you want to be a free person, you need connection. Before the Jewish people even left Egypt, Hashem commanded tefillin. Not after freedom, before it. Tefillin bind the heart and the mind so Torah doesn’t stay as an idea, but becomes part of who we are. We leave Mitzrayim when Torah becomes alive in us. That’s real freedom.

#Tefillin #Torah #Judaism #Freedom #Parsha

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