http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=1214 Newest articles written by Lubavitcher Rebbe; adapted by Jonathan Sacks Copyright 2005, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. http://www.chabad.org/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabad.org Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:00:00 EST Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1250 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1250 What, exactly, is a "supernatural" event? Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=110248 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=110248 In this collection of lucid adaptations of the Rebbe's talks on the weekly Torah readings and Jewish holidays, each question is not only resolved but also revealed to be the starting point of a major spiritual search, a journey to the inner sanctum of Torah. Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=101035 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=101035 We know that Jacob, and all the patriarchs, kept the commandments of the Torah that would be later given to their descendants. Why, then, did Jacob marry sisters, a direct prohibition? Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=42914 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=42914 An historic controversy arose between the Rabbis and sectarians as to the meaning of the command: "And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbat." Although the Rabbis proved their case, why did the Torah use a word so open to misinterpretation? Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=42635 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=42635 A mystical interpretation of the laws of orlah (forbidden fruit of the first three years after a fruit tree's planting), netah revai (the sanctified fruit of the 4th year), and the "mundane" fruit of the fruit tree's 5th year. Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=42633 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=42633 Our Parshah begins by mentioning the death of Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron. Their death is something of a mystery, for while they seemed to have been punished for their faults (no less than 14 different "sins" and shortcomings are enumerated by the Sages) a mystical explanation is that they experienced a spiritual ecstasy so intense that their souls literally left their bodies. Can we reconcile these two analyses of their character? And what is the connection between their deaths and the High Priest's service in the Holy Temple on Yom Kippur? Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=41988 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=41988 In his Likkutei Torah Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi explains that the altar represents the heart. Corresponding to the two altars of the Sanctuary, the outer and the inner, are the outer and inner levels of the heart, its surface personality and its essential core. And the altar on which the "continual fire" (aish tamid) was to be set was the outer one Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2279 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2279 The Torah instructs that judges and officers are to be appointed "in all your city gates" -- wherever Jews live; but that the "cities of refuge" are to be established only in the land of Israel. Why this distinction between judgement and atonement, between the law and refuge from retribution? To explain this dichotomy, the Lubavitcher Rebbe examines the deeper significance of justice and repentance, the spiritual processes involved in judging and atoning, and the locale of the "cities of refuge" in the terrain of time and in the geography of the soul. Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1336 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1336 If G-d is the source of all blessings, why work to earn a livelihood? Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:00:00 EST