Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
Even without a voice, even being cut off from most people, I could find my own path to happiness and emotional health.
This experience, to give life, to watch it grow, to be torn apart by it, to receive pleasure from it, and to give life again—for this the soul descended from its ethereal heights.
And when it shall return to there, enveloped in these memories, it will finally know their depth. And with them travel ever higher and h...
Virtually cut off from other Jewish centers, the Mountain Jews developed their own way of life.
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Eitan Mor saved many lives on 10/7 before he was taken hostage to Gaza, where he still remains.
Someone once said to my father, "The Alter Rebbe's chassidim were always keeping count." My father took a great liking to the saying, and he commented: "That idea characterizes a person's service of G-d. The hours must be 'counted hours,' then the days will be 'counted days.' When a day passes one should know what he has accomplished and what remains yet to be done... In general, one should always see to it that tomorrow should be much better than today."
– Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch (Hayom Yom, Iyar 1)
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