Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
Most people would say, “Good luck,” and move on. But in Israel, strangers often help like family.
Everyone agrees with all the wonderful advice and ethics written in the books of the sages. Everyone agrees that this is the way to run your life.
Yet each of us has our escape route, to avoid bettering our lives by changing ourselves. We ask, “Were those words truly meant for me, or perhaps for someone else in another t...
Kristrún Frostadóttir joined dignitaries and community members to remember the Holocaust
The island of Djerba is home to one of the few remaining Jewish communities in the Muslim world.
The Chabad.org Blog
Rabbi Hazan was a beloved member of the Shluchim Office team for close to two decades.
Throughout history,
Jews have been called the “People of the Book” (or “Am HaSefer”) by both Jews and non-Jews.
How a child of secular suburbia discovered his deeper identity as a "child of Abraham," transforming his life path from worldly success to spiritual fulfillment as a rabbi and Jewish educator.
Rabbi Avraham HaLevi, a disciple of the Arizal, had the custom of reciting Nachem, a prayer of mourning for Jerusalem, every single day.
If dignity and beauty are important to you, you most definitely want to go with the chevra kadisha.
The study of Zohar exalts the soul; study of Midrash arouses the heart; Psalms with tears scours the vessel [of the soul - i.e., the body.]
– Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (1789-1866)
Passing of Maharam of Rothenberg
(1293)
Renowned Talmudist Rabbi Meir ("Maharam") of Rothenburg (1215?-1293) died in his cell in the... Read More »
Goebbels Committed Suicide
(1945)
Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister under Adolf Hitler, was known for his zealous anti-... Read More »
In preparation for the festival of
Shavuot,
we study one of the six chapters of the Talmud's
Ethics of... Read More »
Tomorrow is the thirty-fifth day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at n... Read More »
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