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Mourning a Death
Translation of a letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Letter to a teenage girl who lost her mother. Reconciles contradiction in our sages’ mourning laws; discusses the departed soul’s ascent and how to keep close to it. | |
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A Birthday Present Request
Correspondence by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, The Lubavitcher Rebbe
The Rebbe requests a birthday gift. A lively correspondence ensues. | |
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On Science and Its Truths
By Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, The Lubavitcher Rebbe
The whole Torah-versus-science "problem", the Rebbe maintained, is based on a popular misconception as to what science is | |
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On People with Special Needs
Correspondence of the Rebbe and Dr. Robert Wilkes, at the time director of the Child Development Center at the Coney Island Hospital, on the subject of assisting children with special needs. | |
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By The Way
There is more to a journey than its destination, insisted the Rebbe in this characteristic letter, written several months after his official assumption of the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch | |
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Art
How does a painting compel us to see its subject in a new light? And how is this to be applied to the art of life? A letter to a depressed artist  1 Comment | |
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G-d in the Classroom
If the role of education is to civilize the human being, and if civilization is the subordination of the individual will to a higher authority, can there be such a thing as a wholly "secular" education? | |
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The Scientific Method
"I studied science on the university level from 1928-1932 in Berlin, and from 1934-1938 in Paris, and I have tried to follow scientific developments in certain areas ever since..." | |
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Harnessing Science to Torah
In addition to my letter of yesterday's date, which was confined to a purely scientific discussion, it is this second letter which will express my real approach to you, the Torah approach of one Jew to another | |
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Electric Light
In Torah, as in nature, there are exoteric and esoteric forces; one hundred and ninety-eight years ago, one of the latter electrified Jewish life | |
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His Own Turf
Perfect harmony and full acceptance of a central authority might be the ideal, but ideals are usually the greatest obstacle in getting anything done | |
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