http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=195 Newest articles written by Jay Litvin 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, 8 Dec 2005 12:00:00 EST Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2749 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2749 My hair, thank G-d, is growing back. Hair, beard, eyebrows, eyelashes, the works. My color has returned, or at least transformed from a yellow brown pallor to a more healthy tone. I'm lookin' good. At least that's what everyone says... Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2825 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2825 I picture it pulsating somehow, like a lighthouse, like a heartbeat, like the rhythmic in and out, on and off, here and there, now and then, dark and light of life Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=160887 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=160887 This is what compassion does: it simply comes to say hello, with kindness and grace; to be a companion in whatever circumstance presents itself; to banish loneliness, and if not, to accompany the lonely in their solitude Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=146686 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=146686 There was no longer this "prison" or "vessel" or "garment" of the body. There was no longer soul and body as separate entities. What I was experiencing was in contradiction with all the language that I'd read and heard through the years Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=140865 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=140865 "I present the material, but your child doesn't seem to get it... Have you considered private tutoring?" Why do I get the impression everyone -- the child, the parents, the home environment -- is to blame, except for the teacher? Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=130176 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=130176 With the spread of terrorism, our children are far too often graphically exposed to the worst of what life and humans offer. What can we do to help them deal with these horrific events? Fri, 7 May 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=131076 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=131076 In Israel, during the Temple Era, there were signposts at all the crossroads pointing toward the “cities of refuge” where a person who had accidentally killed someone could go and live in safety from retribution. One day I met two such signposts... Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=130694 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=130694 In today's world, we're told that the faster and fuller we "carry on with our lives" after we lose someone, the healthier we are. Does this mean that we're all disposable and replaceable? Can our loved ones laugh so quickly after we're gone? Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=110362 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=110362 It is a journey into memories of days lost or at least misplaced. Sometimes it takes every ounce of courage I have to not turn them away, to allow them to wrench my gut and heart with shame and regret and pass through my body like a wave of fire... Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=110350 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=110350 It’s stronger than you, buddy. You have to know that. It’s stronger and when it can’t burst out of your chest or squeeze through the spaces of your rib cage or rip your heart into little pieces, it finds another route... Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:00:00 EST