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Your Honeymoon Should Never End PDF Print

by Rabbi Manis Friedman

There are two kinds of love: the intrinsic, calm love that we feel for people to whom we’re related by birth; and the more intimate, fiery love that exists in marriage. This is why the husband-wife relationship is very different from the parent-child relationship.

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Let Kids Be Kids PDF Print

By Rabbi Manis Friedman

How to teach today’s precocious kids values…How to prepare them for the adult world without treating them as adults…How to command respect while respecting them as well.

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Man As Metaphor PDF Print
By Rabbi Manis Friedman

Even the honest atheist will agree that a first cause, an original Bring must have preceded the universe. This original cause or source is what so humbled Einstein, although he incorrectly described it as a religious experience. Now, how we understand this First Cause, its nature, and its relationship to us and to the universe – these are all questions of faith.
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Intimacy Crisis PDF Print

By Rabbi Manis Friedman

I think we can all agree that in our world today, in the free world certainly, there is an intimacy crisis. We have a problem with intimacy. We’re afraid of intimacy, yet we agonize over the lack of it. What better indication of this than our use of euphemisms to describe what should be very intimate relationships.

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Class Quotes PDF Print

by Rabbi Manis Friedman

Read a sampling of quotes from Bais Chana classes on the spiritual and the G-dly, relationships (facts and feelings), the concept of serving, the baal tshuva and modesty.
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