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Rabbi Hillel Shaps reflects on Shavuos, fresh enthusiasm for Torah learning and completing mitzvos with zerizus, purpose and love of Hashem.
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Rabbi Hillel Shaps serves as Director of Special Projects at the Greater Washington Community Kollel in Silver Spring, Maryland. He teaches in the Kollel’s community learning programs, including Semichas Chaver. His Washington Jewish Journal essays explore middos, Torah learning and the everyday opportunities to serve Hashem with enthusiasm and purpose.
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Rabbi Hillel Shaps reflects on Shavuos, fresh enthusiasm for Torah learning and completing mitzvos with zerizus, purpose and love of Hashem.
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Rabbi Hillel Shaps explores the almond tree’s lesson for Tu B’Shvat, showing how joy, courage and focus can help us act on opportunities to do mitzvos.
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