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You and Others Live on a Spring (//Tosefta Baba Metzia// Chapter 11)

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Rabbi Brent Chaim Spodek is a writer and educator in Beacon, NY. In recent years, he has served as the Rabbi in Residence at American Jewish World Service and the Marshall T. Meyer Fellow at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York. An experienced leader and creator of Jewish service learning experiences, Rabbi Spodek has taught extensively about spiritual approaches to justice work, Judaism and human rights, and other topics in a wide variety of settings, including AVODAH, Genesis at Brandeis University, the Academy for Jewish Religion Rabbinical School, Encounter, National Havurah Committee Summer Institute, and Kehilat Hadar. Rabbi Spodek was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was the first recipient of the Neubauer Fellowship. Prior to entering the rabbinate, he attended Wesleyan University and worked as a daily journalist in Durham, NC. Follow Rabbi Brent Spodek on [|Twitter]
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Jack Wertheimer, [|The High Cost of Jewish Living] in[| Commentary Magazine], March 2010 Ruth Messinger, [|Encountering Our Faith Through Serving The Other] in [|The Jewish Week], April 2010 Gary Rosenblatt, [|Generational Clash Over Values at Funders Conference] in The Jewish Week, April 2010 Jeffrey Korbman, [|Helping Others or Ourselves?] in The Jewish Week, April 2010 Lisa Miller, [|The Cost of Being Jewish: How the Recession is Affecting the Jewish Religion] in Newsweek, July 2010 Howard Goldenberg, [|Giving Jewish or Jewish Giving?] on [|eJewishPhilanthropy], September 2010

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