http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=2262 Newest articles written by Dovi Scheiner 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 Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:00:00 EST Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=159881 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=159881 And the voice called to me from heaven. "Dovi," it said, in an oddly mechanical tone, "just where do you think you're going? Get back on the Hutchinson River Parkway right away!" Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=89478 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=89478 As rescue workers sifted through the rubble, Esther and I donned our hard hats and headed towards our chupah, just over the bridge in Brooklyn. With a plume of black smoke suspended in the skies above our wedding canopy, it was clear to that our challenge would be to build more than a Jewish home Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=70823 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=70823 An Ark that is both spacious and spaceless. Whole and shattered Tablets positioned side by side. What lesson can we glean from this? Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=69628 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=69628 One of the purported perks of living a righteous life is that your name lives on long after you are gone. So why does the Torah mark Moses' passing by scratching his name from the record? Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=69643 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=69643 Usually, a person dies, and then their soul shines down on us from heaven. It is rare that a spirit shines down on us from heaven, and then dies Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=68121 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=68121 Any successful speaker will tell you that you need to speak your audience's language. "When in Finland," the saying goes, "start with Finish." But why does G-d start the Ten Commandments in Egyptian? Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=66633 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=66633 All of creation may be divided into three categories: the good, the bad and the frogs Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=65459 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=65459 To successfully escape from prison, you need someone on the outside pulling for you. Take it from Jacob, who wouldn't be found dead in Egypt. Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=65191 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=65191 In the Torah portion of Mikeitz (Genesis 41:1-44:17), Joseph, recently appointed viceroy of Egypt, takes steps to prepare the country for impending famine. He calls for the establishment of a food reserve. Large storehouses are constructed. "And he collected all the food... that was in the land of Egypt, and he placed food in the cities; the food, [and] of the field surrounding the city, he put within it" (Genesis 41:48). Rashi explains how Joseph, knowing that every land preserves its own fruits, ordered that "they put into the produce some of the soil of the place in which it grew," in this way protecting against rotting. What lesson can we take from this brief narrative? We all need physical food to keep our bodies alive. At the same time, we must have spiritual sustenance, if our soul is to survive. For the Jew, Torah study forms the substance of survival. To this end, we plant ourselves in the holy books. The fruits of our labor is the Torah knowledge we accrue. As time goes by, o Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=64312 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=64312 Nowadays, it seems success comes first, prison only later. But with true success, it works the other way around. In the Torah portion of Vayeishev we read of Joseph's exploits. Sold into slavery by his brothers, he winds up enslaved to Potiphar, "a prominent Egyptian" (Genesis 39). But Joseph is no ordinary slave; rather, his master quickly realizes "that G-d is with him, and all that he would do G-d would make successful in his hand." As a result, Potiphar "appointed him over his entire household." But trouble is stewing. Joseph, "handsome in form," attracts the attention of his master's wife. When Joseph rejects her advances, she sets him up, landing Joseph in prison. But it is not long before the new kid in the cell block has taken charge of the ward. "G-d was with Joseph, and He endowed him with charm." As a result, the warden appoints Joseph to run the prison, "and everything that was done there, he would do." A close reading of the differences in wording in the Torah's descriptio Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:00:00 EST