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Founded in 1983, The JYL strives to enhance the quality of life amongst all segments of the community and to eliminate exclusion by promoting inclusion in our wide variety of programs and services for children, adolescents and adults.
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- Are Dangerous Sports Like Football and Wrestling Kosher?Does the possibility of serious brain injury (CTE) mean that playing in the NFL isn’t kosher? Read More
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Daily Thought
In Torah, we mirror on earth that which G‑d performs on every plane of reality.
If so, since the Torah prohibits dislocating even a single stone of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, how could it be that G‑d brought the entire structure to ruins?
For it would certainly be absurd to imagine that the Assyrians or the Romans had the power to set fire to G-d’s house.
It must be that this was not an act of destruction. Rather, it was the initial phase of a much greater construction, one that would be eternally indestructible.
And for that to occur, the Temple had to be temporarily leveled to its foundations...







