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Wastefulness
It's Not Yours!
Destroying or ruining foods, clothes, dishes, plants, springs of water or anything else that could be of benefit to someone is off bounds, even if it has no owner.
Jewish Practice » Mitzvah Minutes » Other » Wastefulness
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Cutting Down Fruit Trees
Parshat Shoftim
By Aryeh Citron
The prohibition of cutting down fruit trees is stricter than the prohibition of destroying other objects of value. Since man is compared to a fruit tree, it is particularly harmful to destroy a tree, for the act unleashes negative spiritual energies.
Jewish Practice » Miscellaneous » Parshah Halachah » Cutting Down Fruit Trees
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Disposable Cups
By Dovid Taub
30 second animated shorts using stick figures to explore Jewish philosophy. Bizarre yet intriguing. Oh, and kind of funny.
Video » Stick Figures » Disposable Cups
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Is it True that it's Forbidden to Cut Down a Fruit Tree?
By Eliezer Danzinger
A closer look at a 3,300 year-old environmental protecttion law
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Mitzvot & Jewish Customs » Is it True that it's Forbidden to Cut Down a Fruit Tree?
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Mystical Significance of Hair 2
From the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria
Trimming facial hair has profound implications in the higher worlds
Kabbalah Online » Everyday Life » Daily Activities » Mystical Significance of Hair 2
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The Unity and Purposefulness of Creation
By Rabbi Gavriel Weinberg
Everything has its place in the plan of creation and it is "good."; it becomes "very good" when all the parts are working in unison
Spirituality » Essays » The Unity and Purposefulness of Creation
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The Rabbi and the Ox
By Yanki Tauber
One day, the neighborhood butcher came to the study of Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz (1730-1805), the famed rabbi of Frankfurt, with an halachic query...
Library » Stories » Chassidic » The Rabbi and the Ox
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Make Yourself Useful
By Yanki Tauber
There's nary a shul bench in Mineola or a park bench in Jerusalem that does not bear the inscription "In memory of ...." Is that what it's about -- memorializing the dead? or is there something more significant at play here?
Lifecycles » Death & Mourning » Library » Essays & Readings » Make Yourself Useful
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Mystical Significance of Hair 1
From the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria
Kabbalah teaches that hair is recognized for its spiritual power
Kabbalah Online » Everyday Life » Daily Activities » Mystical Significance of Hair 1
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