http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=7277 Newest articles written by Shimon Posner 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 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=926074 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=926074 Delusions become dangerous not when we start to believe them but when we stop questioning. Why are we afraid to face the obvious facts? Because the facts hurt too badly. So we hide behind two-state solutions, and pullouts, and dialogue and bridge building... Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=779491 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=779491 Maybe I'm crazy, maybe I'm just ranting, but you heard it here first: one day the children of those who sought harm will benefit from the legacy that Gabi and Rivky left behind. And that will be the sweetest revenge of all Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=775412 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=775412 I am sure that there on the other side of the globe competent people are going about that grim task. We sit here and we watch them without seeing Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=530013 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=530013 Was the Rebbe a rabbi? Well yes, but no. Forget it, I'm not going to be able to explain what the Rebbe was, what the Rebbe is. Years already since his passing, and I don't see any perspective... Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=421176 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=421176 Arabs kick in the synagogue's windows.  They take a sledgehammer to the pillars.  Hoards overrun the place with bloodthirsty shrieks.  In the name of G-d. In the name of national pride. In the name of the future. You can only steal once, goes the saying.  But if you want to rob another more than enrich yourself, once is all you need.  No one can rejoice for the Arabs.  Nothing has improved for them; history indicates that nothing will.  The anti-Semitism, the anti-Israel, the anti-West vitriol and violence they export comes from a will to destroy what another has.  Were it the desire to have one's own, pride of ownership would triumph bloodlust destruction. Why does the world tolerate it?  Why do we allow a philosophical tilt-of-the-head 'but they too have a claim'?  Because on some subliminal, unrealized level, it is preferable to knock someone else's accomplishments than to create our own.  In the rare, rare, less than once-in-se Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=421174 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=421174 When the body is facing death you use the tourniquet; otherwise it does more damage than good Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=400390 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=400390 When we ask heroes from where they got the strength to do incredible things, they give lousy answers. Inevitably, their answer is “I had to do it"... Regardless of their level of articulation, they cannot come up with any good reason for why they did what they did. Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=494052 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=494052 Here is the popular take: The Wise Son is the one who turned out right. The Wicked One? Well... enough said. The Simple One? Alright, not every hamentasch turns out the way you want. The One Who Doesn't Know to Ask? Oy... Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=480757 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=480757 Considering that gold has virtually no practical use, why is it so treasured? And why did G-d command us to use it in the construction of the Tabernacle? Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=358025 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=358025 "My face you shall not see," if you look forward, in the present, you won't see Me. But, "I will show you my back," by looking back you will see that I was there all along... Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:00:00 EST