http://www.chabad.org/magazine/default.asp?aid=15563 Chabad.org Parshah Portal features basic texts, summaries and in-depth analysis as well as commentary and other articles on the weekly Torah portion 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 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=36271 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=36271 Got no more than five minutes? The Parshah in a Nutshell is an ultra-short, one-page synopsis of the weekly Torah reading, peppered with links to related stories, essays and articles. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/parshah/torahreading.asp?AID=15563 http://www.chabad.org/parshah/torahreading.asp?AID=15563 Modern English translation of the full text of the Parshah. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/parshah/rashi/default.asp?AID=15563 http://www.chabad.org/parshah/rashi/default.asp?AID=15563 A modern English translation of the full text of the Parshah with the classic commentary by Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, 1040-1105), universally regarded as the most basic tool for understanding the meaning of the text for schoolchild and scholar alike. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/parshah/in-depth/default.asp?AID=36209 http://www.chabad.org/parshah/in-depth/default.asp?AID=36209 Explore the Parshah together with a hundred generations of scholars and mystics, from Moses to today. Includes a detailed summary and overview, and dozens of selected excerpts from the Midrash, Talmud, the Commentaries and the Chassidic Masters. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2787 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2787 If you see more deeply into me than I am capable of seeing in myself, which is the real me? The deeper, truer me that you see, or my me? This was the essence of a debate between Moses and the people of Israel at the foot of Mount Sinai, and between Moses and his father-in-law, Jethro, in the aftermath of the Revelation Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1103824 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1103824 Six days before the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, nothing happened Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=473771 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=473771 Our Sages tell us that the Torah was studied and observed by our ancestors for hundreds of years before the revelation at Sinai. So why do we celebrate that event as the "Giving of the Torah"? What actually <i>happened</i> at Sinai? Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=473772 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=473772 "G-d held the mountain over them like a jar and said: 'If you accept the Torah, fine; if not, here shall be your grave.'" But hadn't the people already proclaimed that they want the Torah? Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=473773 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=473773 A dialogue between Moses and the angels, in which the angels challenged Israel's right to receive the Torah, yields fascinating insights into the nature of spirituality and physicality, the purpose of creation, and the role of the Torah Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346027 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346027 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=472301 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=472301 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=461038 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=461038 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=461042 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=461042 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346028 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346028 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346029 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346029 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346032 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346032 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346031 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346031 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1104821 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1104821 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346033 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346033 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=673474 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=673474 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1104780 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1104780 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=354168 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=354168 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1056710 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1056710 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346034 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346034 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=360365 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=360365 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346035 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346035 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=831124 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=831124 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1750062 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1750062 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346036 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=346036 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST