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Mysticism Demystified

What Is Chabad?

Making Chasidism Accessible

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The Physical World According to Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Which is loftier—spirit or matter? The soul or the body? The teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, founder of Chabad Chassidism, extol the first over the second, and then the second over the first, offering a unique and life-altering vision of reality.

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Faith and Reason

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi’s Synthesis of Two Never-Intersecting Planes

By Yanki Tauber

The fact that you cannot rationally understand something is no reason not to study it.

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Alienation and Faith

Between Tanya Ch. 32 and the Lonely Man of Faith

By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

We detect two tendencies of thought on the place of alienation and loneliness in the Jewish analysis of the emotions. To state this contrast is not to formulate an opposition; simply to open another gate...

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The Benoni: Perfection is for Everyone

By Nissan Dovid Dubov

The Purpose of Creation

A Dwelling Place for G-d in the Lower Realms

By Nissan Dovid Dubov

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Tanya Chapter 32

How to Truly Love Your Fellow as Yourself

From the teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi's "Tanya" is the "bible of Chassidism" -- the fundamental work upon which dozens of books and thousands of maamarim (discourses) by seven generations of Chabad Rebbes are based. The "heart" of Tanya is its 32nd chapter which discusses the mitzvah of Ahavat Yisrael, love of a fellow Jew.

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Twenty-Eight Teachings from Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

(free translation)

This is what man is all about; this is the purpose of his creation and of the creation of all the worlds, sublime and lowly -- to make for G-d a dwelling in the physical world ... A little bit of light dispels a lot of darkness ...

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