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Challenge
The Rebbe's relentless call for every Jew to never rest
The Rebbe's message was as old as the Torah itself, yet his approach was as rousing as dawn. He urged each person, in personal and communal life, to never be satisfied with yesterday's achievements or today's successes, but to soar tomorrow to even ...
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Keeping Up With the Cohens
By Yossy Goldman
Do not look into your neighbor's tent to help decide what you should be doing. Your decisions in life should not be based on what other people are, or are not, doing.
Parshah » Bamidbar - Numbers » Balak » Parshah Columnists » Weekly Sermonette » Keeping Up With the Cohens
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Are You Just ‘Doing Time’?
By Yossi Ives
The author's experiences with prison inmates leads him to think that criminals aren't the only ones who are doing time...
Society & Living » Daily Life » Are You Just ‘Doing Time’?
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The Climb
From the Chassidic Masters
The children had leaned a tall pole against a building and were competing with each other as to who could climb the highest...
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The Vertical Life
By Yanki Tauber
We "raise" our children, "climb" the ladders of our careers, "rise" to life's occasions, think "highly" of people we admire, "aspire" to high ideals, regard "heaven" as representative of all that is good and "lofty". Why all this uppity talk?
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » The Vertical Life
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Seeking the Other
By Yanki Tauber
One would think that after all that Rachel had gone through in the last 14 years there'd be at least a moment of contentment. Isn't it strange to name your firstborn child "I want another son"?
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » Seeking the Other
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From Greatest Darkness to Greatest Light
11 Nissan, 5744 • April 12, 1984
The Torah does not tell us the exact times when many important events occurred. Nevertheless, we are told that Pharoah commanded the Jews to leave Egypt exactly at midnight on the 15th of Nissan. Further, the Torah narrates the exact moment they actually ...
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Want It All
By Yanki Tauber
I think I know why the Rebbe liked this story so much. The child's question and the grandfather's explanation express two extremes, whose contrast and synthesis are a hallmark of the Rebbe's approach to life
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » Want It All
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The Quest for Self
By Yanki Tauber
After all journeys are consummated, after all quests are realized, there remains one frontier which few have penetrated and fewer still have conquered
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » The Quest for Self
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A Long Pole
By Yanki Tauber
By law, the menorah stood in a chamber into which only kohanim ("priests") were permitted entry. But the law also states that an ordinary person may light the menorah. What is the point -- and lesson -- of this legal paradox?
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