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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
“I was in the midst of the exile, on the river of Kevar.” (Ezekiel 1:1) (Kevar is the Hebrew word for “already.”) At the onset of the exile, Ezekiel sat on the bank of a river called “I heard that already.” It is a river so cold, it can make icicles from fiery sparks of wisdom. It is a river of exile. Because it is a lie. Wisdom never says, “I heard that already.” When you truly hear, when you absorb wisdom deep...