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Pebbles from heaven

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, Thank you for your column. I have a question regarding wealth. I grew up in a home of modest means. I was always taught that wealth can be distractive. And yet, in a recent class I learned about...
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Avoiding the wedding ‘plotz’

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, First, the good news. Mazel Tov! My daughter is engaged to be married. And now, the “bad” news. I’m going meshhuga! The chasunah is taking place next month and I was up a whole night trying to make seating...
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How to meet Elijah the Prophet

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, I have read many stories of Elijah the Prophet. I was told that great people actually had the privilege to see him. Tell me, how can I have the merit of his presence? Masha, Colorado Springs Dear Masha, You ask a very...
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Time travelling

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, What do you think would be better — to go back in time or to see the future? Andy Hampstead, Canada Dear Andy, To quote a favorite saying we heard from a good friend, a Holocaust survivor, Reb Efraim (Fred) Englard...
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Mathematics vs. nachas

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, My daughter wants to get married and is getting a lot of offers of fine young men. Many friends have told me to make sure to check out the family background. You know, the parents, siblings, uncles and...
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What’s the difference?

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, I really enjoyed your column discussing the body and soul, but I am still disturbed. As a mechanic, I work on car engines, open their hearts, remove the valves, repair any damage, and then put them back in. And,...
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MATZA: Mental Anguish TZviling Alert

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 11 Dear Tzviling, Help! Passover is around the corner and I don’t know where to begin. I know I have to get rid of every morsel of chametz, but my wife is not helping enough....
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Heavenly, and then some

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, Why is it customary — for Rosh Hashanah — to make round challos and shape them like a spiraling ladder? Melanie (Denver) Dear Melanie, Rosh Hashanah is the day of   G-d’s coronation, when He is crowned as King over us...
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Meat on Shavuos?

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, Why do many people eat dairy on the holiday of Shavuos? Is it okay to eat meat on Shavuos? Molly (sent by e-mail) Dear Molly, You are asking an excellent question that has more than one answer. Here are two: The Jews...
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Would you put sugar in your gas tank?

Yisroel & Shloime Engel -
Dear Tzviling, I enjoy your articles, especially the ones about Jewish practice. I am hoping you can help me. My wife wants to keep a kosher home. That’s fine with me. But now, she doesn’t want to go to...
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Mt. Nebo Cemetery rediscovers a George Washington obelisk

During the decades before the cemetery entrance was moved, visitors to Mt. Nebo entered through a park-like promenade called the George Washington Bicentennial Memorial Grove. At the center of the grove of 200 trees was an obelisk monument erected in 1932 by the Ladies Shroud Society of BMH Congregation in commemoration of George Washington’s 200th birthday.