http://www.chabad.org/magazine/default.asp?aid=1752421 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 2012, 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, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=3264 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=3264 Find stories, insights, videos and customs for the holiday of Tu B’Shevat, the New Year of Trees. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=379846 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=379846 Learn how to conduct a Tu B’Shevat seder according to the custom of the Safed Kabbalists. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1108924 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1108924 I’m a work in progress, unfinished business. I’m willing to learn and dedicated to growth, but I’m not there yet . . . Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=819716 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=819716 He struggled daily with the hardheaded farmer boys who were his students, for they would rather roam the countryside than learn . . . Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=627021 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=627021 When’s the last time you wished a tree Happy New Year? The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat is a great opportunity. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1755272 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1755272 Learn more about the meaning of Tu B’Shevat, and some of the health and healing properties of the fruits mentioned in Deuteronomy: “wheat, barley, grapes, fig, pomegranates, oil-yielding olives and [date] honey.” Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1729324 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1729324 “Relationship Rabbi” Chay Amar explains to Jewish singles why you never really know yourself until you get married. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1414826 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1414826 Both love and awe are necessary ingredients to develop a holistic relationship. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=387726 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=387726 I am in the process of an Orthodox conversion to marry the man I love. I am now living a wonderful observant life, but my fiancé is not interested in living in such a way . . . Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=473397 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=473397 One of your children may be particularly neat, while another might be highly creative. Contrasting the two is not only unfair; it can be destructive. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1742881 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1742881 I have two weeks left. That isn’t a lot of time to plant a tree and make it grow fifty different branches. I’m planting it for the woman sitting next to me . . . Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1708918 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1708918 The gateway to tolerance is humility; but humility must be tempered with healthy and guarded self-assurance. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1566916 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1566916 Be small, accomplish big things, enjoy life. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=144968 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=144968 In the time of King Solomon, there lived a young shepherd by the name of Barzilai. He was a dreamer. He dreamed of strange adventures as his eyes followed silvery clouds to the distant horizon . . . Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=36271 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=36271 G‑d writes a book, Moses argues with angels, Egyptian is spoken at Sinai, the Ten Commandments are set in parallel stones, and the Torah is given to Israel . . . Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1750073 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1750073 There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, but four . . . Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1744285 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1744285 When embarking on any new endeavor, there is an understandable tendency to either panic with terror or to act overconfidently, both of which lead to inevitable disaster. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1417890 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1417890 Understand how we draw the Ten Commandments of Torah into the Ten Utterances of Creation, and why the revelation at Sinai is the basis for our belief in Moses. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2531 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2531 We live on a miniscule speck of dust floating around in the infinite void we call the universe. Where are we? What does it all mean? Why are we here? What, if anything, are we supposed to do? Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1736721 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1736721 What is the true definition of faith? How does believing differ from knowing? Are there logical proofs for the belief in G‑d and in the divine origins of the Torah? Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=348076 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=348076 Even while he sits at the supper table, a careful look at the businessman’s expression, at the thoughtfulness in his eyes, reveals that the affairs of his business are very much on his mind . . . Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=383786 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=383786 Most of the time, a short visit is preferable. One needs to take the status and the desires of the sick person into considerations. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1742911 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1742911 As a young girl, I had always wondered why Babushka never seemed to have much variety of food in her house. We would come to visit, and she had almost nothing to offer her grandchildren to eat. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST