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The Straw Man


The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of “reasoning” has the following pattern: Person A has position X. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of […]

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Torah Study Tuesday ~Vayikra


  On only three occasions does Torah speak of a call to Moses. Each involves a summons to preform a momentous act. First the burning bush (Exodus 3,4) and second was the call at Mount Sinai, just before the Divine Words were revealed to him (Exodus 19,3) The third call […]

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Extreme Makeover


Lo, the Winter is past; the rain is over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with tender grapes release a good […]

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