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By Tzvi Freeman The big question of history is: why is there any history at all? Meaning, why is there a story, that which we call progress? How did history get its arrow?
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe How the technological advances of recent times are connected to approach of the Messianic Era
By Yanki Tauber The human psyche is home to two contrasting drives: a striving for freedom, and an impulse to submit to authority. Which should be given priority over the other? Or, to otherwise state the question: in what sort of environment would the Torah prefer to ...
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.
By Tzvi Freeman You're always talking about how the world is ready and prepared for the Age of Moshiach. I don't see it. It looks like a pretty awful world to me...
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?
By Laibl Wolf The waters of the flood are like the waters of a ritualarium -- a mikveh -- where the waters spiritually cleanse the dross that accumulates in the course of our life's endeavors. The world received a spiritual cleansing, and this set the course of ...
A tour of Jewish history through the millennia, from our biblical fathers to the upheavals of the 20th century
By Tzvi Freeman How could Jacob have studied the Torah, if it was given to Moses centuries later? Did he learn, in advance, how Laban would trick him on his wedding night or how Joseph would thrown in a pit and sold as a slave by his brothers?
By Tzvi Freeman Some people think Judaism is all about tradition. It's not. It's about making a whole new world
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