Lech-Lecha 5769 - November 7, 2008
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Why Do We Send Our Children to School?
Don’t they have the right to know?
By Baruch Epstein
Kids have a right to know the objective of the hours they spend in school. Sadly, often the message they get is misleading. |
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Sanctity in Bergen Belsen
By Mirish Kiszner
Of the 6,000 girls who left left Auschwitz in the infamous 6-week "death march" to Bergen-Belsen, 400 survived. This is the story of one survivor |
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Life's Detours
By Chana Weisberg
After exulting in a tranquil week surrounded by the simple beauty of nature, we were ready to plunge back into the onslaught of life, with renewed vigor. But apparently our van had a mind of its own... |
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“My Name is . . . and I am a Human Being”
The Jewish idea of perfection
By Shais Taub
Imagine asking a Jew, “Did you ever eat on Yom Kippur?” and he answers, “I felt hungry in my stomach.” |
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The Last Jew
Where is the world's most ordinary place? A fifteen-days' journey from Jerusalem, in a field on the banks
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Where is the world’s most ordinary place? A fifteen days’ journey from Jerusalem, in a field on the banks
of the Euphrates. |
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Do Jews Believe in Karma?
Basically, karma means: You can't escape the system. But G-d lifted Abraham above the stars
By Tzvi Freeman
In ancient Egypt, it was called "ma'at," in Greek, "heimarmene" or "fate" and in Germanic, "wyrd." Basically, the idea is: You can't escape the system |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Lech-Lecha - Genesis 12:1-17:27
Abraham’s journey, Sarah’s abduction, Lot relocates to Sodom, the Promised Land is promised, the “Covenant Between the Parts,” Hagar and Ishmael, Abraham’s circumcision . . . explored, examined and expounded upon in this week’s Torah reading. |
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The Birth of Moral Selfhood
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"Leave your land, your birthplace and your father's house, and go to the land I will show you." These words are among the most consequential in the history of mankind |
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The Abraham Principle
The Logic of Faith
By Arnie Gotfryd
On closer inspection, it seems more akin to ecology than to ethical monotheism... yet this one elegant idea developed by a child some 3,800 years ago, has transformed the world forever |
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Eagle or Teddy Bear?
By Shimon Posner
Not only Teddy, but the One whom this nation pledges that it is under, has softened into someone cuddly to whom we intone pledges and sing that he bless us . . . |
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Never Too Old to Travel
By Naftali Silberberg
The information the Torah "neglects" to tell us regarding Abraham and Sarah's youth teaches a lesson about our spiritual journey through life. |
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It's Been Done Before
By Yanki Tauber
Sometimes it can be frustrating being a Jew. No matter what you do, one of your grandfathers or grandmothers has already done it. How can one ever do anything original with such ancestors? |
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The Third Millennium
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Infancy, self-sufficiency and synthesis -- the story of mankind from the Garden of Eden to Noah’s ark to Mount Sinai. |
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When and Where?
Refusing to Lose my Mother to Alzheimer's
By Channah Schaffer
There are moments when she is very happy. She is happy in her spacious rooms, happy for the companionship. She calls me Mother now... |
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Campus Jewish Groups Highlight Cancer Awareness by Going Pink
By Chana Kroll, Chabad.edu
The pink tablecloths and plates had never particularly caught her eye before, but by the time Raizy Rubin noticed the donations from a local party supply store, the color had a new significance. |
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