http://www.chabad.org/magazine/default.asp?aid=672284 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 2008, 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, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=161001 If I sit back and wait for money to fall from heaven, that is not faith - that's lack of faith. Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=520294 Isn't it racist to believe you're special because you're Jewish? How is that any different from the Nazi belief in the "superiority" of the Aryan race, for example? Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=673268 Reb Shabse arranged with the caretaker that when Yisrolik came to study at night, he should give him one small candle, which should burn not more than one hour Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2033 The Sabbatical and Jubilee years... the Kabbalah of "seven", "eight" and "fifty"... real estate law in Torah... doing business with G-d... Also: Moses climbs a mountain Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=77209 Granted, Mount Sinai was no Everest. But G-d was coming down all the way from the heavens--couldn't He have descended another few thousand feet, instead of making an octogenarian sage climb a mountainside? Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=562035 Six reasons for the Sabbatical Year: The soil, a macro-Shabbat, making up for six years of Shabbats, a lesson in faith and humility, unity, and liberation. Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=470842 What is the greater wonder -- G-d's ability to perform miracles, or our ability to trust in them? Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=77210 It was in 1950, after we had completed our army service. At first we lived in tents, in the middle of a barren wilderness. At that time, there were not yet water pipes reaching our moshav. We had to content ourselves with what could be grown in dry rugged fields. Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=671890 I know that there is a purpose for every human being. For me, that purpose had to be to leave all that I knew and what was familiar to me, and to start over... Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=671982 I found what I thought was the perfect job a few years ago and have dedicated myself tirelessly to it. But, recently, I find that I am just burning out and not sure if this is what I should be doing any longer... Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=671892 I'm not going to make a Pollyannaish claim that taking four kids to the Middle East was a smooth, simple, and stress-free undertaking. But it was also indescribably beautiful and perfectly life-changing... Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=671896 A mother may have a hard time accepting that her daughter, the girl who once didn't know how to make toast, is now a chef at a four-star restaurant... Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=669559 Were we in some kind of enforced boot camp, being punished for some heinous crime? No, we were a group of middle class, suburban women who were here entirely on our own volition. Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=663559 My wife does many things that irritate me. For example, she never seems to be ready on time, she gets very emotional, or she insists on long conversations before we go to bed... Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 EST