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By Bronya Shaffer Question: I am extremely angry with G‑d for what He did to my family. I used to at least go to synagogue on the High Holidays, but for the last 12 months I have stopped going and I don't light candles before Shabbat anymore. Since I despise G‑d, am I ...
By Jay Litvin I talk to Him rarely. I rarely even pray for my recovery. I take all this for granted.
By Yanki Tauber "I'm going to tell him everything," insisted the first father. "I want a son," objected father #2, "not a puppet." "I'll tell him everything," said the third father. "But I won't tell him what it means"
By Yanki Tauber Every hundred years or so, a person comes along and changes the way we look at ourselves and our world. But there is something that is rarer still -- someone who will tell us something that we already know
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Two cherubs of gold stood on either end of the covering of the holy Ark in the Temple. Our Sages relate that when the Jewish people followed G-d’s will, the cherubs faced each other, embracing like lovers; when the Jewish people were rebellious, the ...
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson
Adapted by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Our Sidra opens with G-d’s command that a census be taken of the Israelites. In fact there were three such counts taken in the first thirteen months following the Exodus from Egypt. What is the spiritual significance of the counting ordained by G-d? Why ...
By Yanki Tauber The Kohen shall dissolve [the writing] in the bitter waters (5:23) G-d says: Let my name be erased in the water, if only to bring peace between man and wife. - Sifri "…and he skips over me with love (Song of Songs 2:4)" - Great is G-d's love for Israel; ...
By Yanki Tauber You are the children to the Lord your G-d (14:1) From my own flesh I see G-d - Job 19:26 From the diary of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch: Thursday, 14 Sivan 5662 Serebrinka[June 19, 1902] It is an hour now since I returned from visiting the abandoned ...
By Gittle Gesina So, we answer the soul’s call. We learn about our roots, about the heritage bequeathed to us by our ancestors, and we make the transition to the Jewish way of life. Yet, something is amiss...
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