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Chabad Jewish Center of Oak Park-River Forest offers a wide range of Jewish classes, programs and services. Creating a home for Jewish Life in the Oak Park River Forest area
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Daily Thought
The Talmud (Ta'anit 23b) mentions that a woman's charity is greater than a man's. She gives the starving beggar a loaf of bread, while he only provides the means to attain it. Read that in its inner sense and you will see that it is forever: A man’s way is to serve your impoverished soul ideas—perhaps you will be wise enough to translate those ideas into deeds. But a woman goes straight for the stomach and the...