http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=9667 Newest articles written by Shifra Hendrie 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, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=952261 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=952261 The Rebbe smiled at the little boy. "In the game of life," he explained "we're supposed to be players—but many people choose to be observers, to just sit in the stands. But you," he said to the child, "Be a player." Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=676721 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=676721 Apparently, our use of language - our stories, our beliefs, our attitudes, our complaints and fears - actually shapes our future Thu, 22 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=663552 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=663552 From that moment, there was no longer any force in the world powerful enough to keep a Jew from connecting with G‑d. No force in the world. But inside the Jew—that's a different story... Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=574228 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=574228 From the serene perfection of the Garden, they had been plunged into the fearful reality of galut (exile) – a world where something was terribly wrong... Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=564799 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=564799 Rosh Hashanah holds within it an awesome power. The light of the past is withdrawn and the light of the future has yet to come down into the world and into your life. The Book is open. What will you choose? Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=398352 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=398352 If you’ve ever had this experience, you have unwittingly stumbled upon one of the core spiritual secrets of Creation: a three-fold pattern of vision-breakdown-transformation, or light-darkness-light. Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=377359 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=377359 G-d creates from "Nothing" because nothingness, ayin, actually means absolute, infinite possibility. And as a beings created in the image of G-d, we, too, can create "something from nothing" Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=354496 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=354496 Our lives are like the reverse side of a great tapestry. From the back, it all looks random and chaotic: all we can see are the knots, the imperfections, some bumps, smears of color... Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=343143 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=343143 The illusion of "I'm all alone in here!" is powerful, but not total. If we were totally cut off from an awareness of what lies beyond, chances are we'd be perfectly content... Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=329443 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=329443 Like the moon, your child may be lovely, but he is a reflector. You assert, she believes. You decide, he accepts. You give, she takes. Then comes the chaos of adolescence... Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:00:00 EST