Did you call your father today?
By Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes Special to The Acorn
      Honor your father and mother. It made the Top Ten (commandments), coming in at No. 5, between the commandments about our relationship with God and spirituality and those about how we treat other people. It made it into the Holiness Code: You shall revere your mother and father, appearing right after God tells Moses to tell us to be holy.
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Mirror, Mirror . . .
      The tendency to judge others seems to find a home in most of us, and at those times when we encounter an individual whom we see as objectionable- in appearance or personality, or both- our first reaction may be to want to get away from that person's energy as quickly as possible.
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