http://www.chabad.org/magazine/default.asp?aid=933771 The Chabad.org weekly online magazine features articles on current events and events in the Jewish Calendar. It also features a daily thought, daily quote and our acclaimed week at a glance. Copyright 2009, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. http://www.chabad.org/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabad.org Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=891806 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=891806 The best time to watch birds is in the morning. In fact, the more closely you adhere to the optimal schedule of Jewish devotion, the more certain you are to miss the most beautiful aspect of watching the birds, and that is... listening to them. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=903304 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=903304 During my eleven months of saying Kaddish, I ended up in various <I>minyans</I> from San Francisco to Halifax, but the phone call in New York was the start of what turned out to be perhaps the most interesting Kaddish experience of them all... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=924953 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=924953 The Arab birth rate continues to outstrip the Jewish rate--and the government continues to discourage large families. How are we ever going to ensure that this place remains the Jewish homeland? Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=934183 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=934183 Some things are so very astounding that the casually passing mind refuses to notice the wonder. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=788679 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=788679 The double triangle of the Star of David (Magen David) symbolizes the connection of both the inner and external dimensions of G‑d, Torah and Israel. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=927393 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=927393 One night, as I come home from school, I open the front door and hear strange noises coming from the living room, a mixture of radio static and a voice speaking in a foreign language... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=790369 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=790369 It is interesting what happens when you simply watch your kids. They begin to demonstrate all sorts of abilities you never realized they had, just lurking under the surface of their dependency on you... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2219 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2219 Ashes and water; death, anger and war; a talking ass, curses transformed into blessings, and prophecies of the end of days; a noxious idol, promiscuous prince and a zealot; and what has been said about them all by sages and mystics through the ages Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=398080 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=398080 On the one hand, he's declared to be nothing less than the equal of Abraham (in passion) and Moses (in prophecy); on the other, he's described as the most perverse, greedy and corrupt human being ever to walk the face of the earth! Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=700008 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=700008 Our role as Jews is to be an example. The Torah describes us, thousands of years ago, as expressing the virtues of modesty and privacy. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=537636 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=537636 If striking the rock was so awful, why was it okay so many years earlier? Why didn't Moses follow G-d's simple instructions? Why did this seemingly minor offense have such severe consequences? Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=699483 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=699483 G‑d has given us something far, far superior to "Donkeyvision": the challenge of liberty and the gift of discernment... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST