http://www.chabad.org/magazine/default.asp?aid=1110754 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 2010, 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, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1096336 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1096336 How are we to deal with change in life that appears to be misfortune and cause for pain? A tale of two pails Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=899665 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=899665 Is our relationship with G-d predicated solely on "obedience" or is there something else at play as well? On the significance on the mitzvah Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=772718 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=772718 Merging the finite and the infinite Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1110841 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1110841 From Jerusalem to Masada, join veteran tour-guide Shalom Pollack on a wondrous journey through Israel where the past, present and future all share the same space. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=361476 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=361476 This week's Itche Kadoozy show is about the civil laws presented in Parshat Mishpatim. Or at least it would be if it wasn't interrupted by a commercial for Larry Goldstein's Law Firm. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1108897 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1108897 I called together a few people in the office for an impromptu football brainstorming session (a team game calls for a team effort...) Here are the results Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1070062 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1070062 My four-year-old son, not to be outdone, offered to collect stuffed animals at his nursery school. Soon, the animals were arriving at all hours and without notice. With each delivery, my daughter beamed... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1107500 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1107500 59,023 people took the time to think about children with special needs and show their support. But there's a different number that matters much more Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1063897 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1063897 If your intervention will not help solve, and possibly even exacerbate, the problem, do you intervene? If you are not positive that a crime has been committed, can you pass judgment? Can you act based on your "sense" that there is a serious problem? Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1053636 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1053636 The big three refers to the three sources of conflict for married couples: who does the housework, how to divide up the childcare, and how to manage money. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1076116 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1076116 Tali has a very good chance of growing up to be an obnoxious young lady. She may use badgering and battering to get what she wants. She will have learned the lesson that most people can't tolerate a scene... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1084410 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1084410 The source of much of our misery is that we view our lives in a limited way, as a snapshot, believing that what we hold now represents how we always were and will be. But everything in our world remains in a state of flux. At every moment there is enormous change... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=358706 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=358706 It was an age of boors and ascetics, a time of conflict between body and soul. Then a master appeared. "Don't beat your beast," he taught, "don't overload him and don't abandon him. Help him" Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=70405 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=70405 The historical, personal and cosmic significance of the half-shekel Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1097231 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1097231 Did you know that G-d would rather you cooked pork chops than a cheeseburger? That’s right. There is no biblical injunction against cooking pork—although eating it is absolutely forbidden... But it is forbidden to even cook meat together with milk. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=674901 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=674901 G‑d inserted the reading of Mishpatim before going back in time to discuss key elements of the narrative of the giving of the Torah. His way of saying: "Before you can receive the Torah fully—study Mishpatim! Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=358696 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=358696 Cyberspace, outer space, inner space. Genome maps, globalization. Smart cards, smart bombs, stem cells and cell phones... Should we still need subscribe to an ancient code of laws when we are so further advanced than our ancestors? Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=254376 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=254376 There are four approaches to understanding what the Torah is all about: a) it means what it says; b) it's all a metaphor; c) it should be read from the top down; or d) from the bottom up Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1108949 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1108949 In 1990, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait to solve Iraq's financial problems, the world was outraged. That kind of move was not considered cool anymore. Something had changed in our moral perceptions. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1298 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1298 Indentured servants, goring oxen, partially repaid loans, fined thieves, the separation of meat and milk -- the laws, the technicalities, the wider applications, and the deeper spiritual import of these and 48 other mitzvot Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=639262 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=639262 A holy half-shekel reveals the importance of judging one's fellow favorably. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1096464 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1096464 The newspaper of the Nazi party, "<i>Der Sturmer</i>," portrayed Rabbi Wiedenfeld as "the greatest Talmudist in the world," and placed him high on their black list. Thus the rabbi was forced to flee... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=146899 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=146899 One Friday afternoon, a man knocked on the door of Rabbi Yizchak Eizik, rabbi of Vitebsk. "I have a <i>din-torah</i> (a matter of litigation)," he said. "I request that you hear my case..." Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=83786 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=83786 That's the profit from the sale of a calf in the marketplace of the White Russian town of Lubavitch Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=628628 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=628628 It sounds bizarre, but I have found that the more I live my life as an observant Jew, the more I seem to lose my Jewish identity... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1086063 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1086063 "I'm going to be a rock star!" I knew this was my life's mission, and so, at the age of fifteen I embarked on my journey, never looking back... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1106597 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1106597 On the most external level, we understand that more important than what is on the outside is what is on the inside. A pretty face with nothing behind it is worthless... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=313386 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=313386 The Jewish Woman is a site dedicated to providing Jewish women of all backgrounds intellectually challenging, emotionally uplifting and inspirationally stimulating articles. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=380233 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=380233 Jewish mysticism teaches that justice is often served in hidden ways. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=380586 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=380586 Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1113443 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1113443 Some 2,500 Jewish community leaders are converging in Brooklyn, N.Y., this week for the 22nd annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1112647 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1112647 The girls of Troop 3131 make up the first Jewish troop in the almost 100-year history of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. They’re spending their time earning merit badges and learning about leadership. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1112767 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1112767 Jewish senior citizens at the Shaarei Tzedek center in Moscow enjoyed a large vat of fruit salad in honor of the holiday of Tu B’Shevat, a day popularly known as the New Year for trees and celebrated with the eating of fruit. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST