Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
Standing at the counter was an elderly lady who immediately drew my attention. Within a somewhat fragile physique, she exuded light and strength. I smiled to her while noticing her shock of white...
Faith, joy, love, truth. These are all words that evoke a certain set of feelings: aspiration, hope, and maybe even a tinge of confusion. Who doesn't want to live a life of perfect joy, suffused with...
The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, passed away on this date in 1950. Exactly one year later, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson accepted the leadership of the movement, and...
There is a beast inside. It awaits you for its tikkun.
How do you fix up the human beast? First with prayer, then with food, but ultimately by doing business.
You need to start with meditation and prayer, because that beast inside needs to experience not only wonder, but even love for G‑d. The problem is, in prayer...
Parshah (Weekly Torah)
A man gets into his car and decides, in the name of “optimism,” that he won’t buckle up. Is he an optimist or is he foolish?
My siblings and I have never been super close, but until now we’ve gotten along fairly well. However, this inheritance has brought out the worst in us, and we have come to the point that we aren’t...
Contemporary Voices
Our lives are like the reverse side of a great tapestry. From the back, it all looks random and chaotic: all we can see are the knots, the imperfections, some bumps, smears of color...
A story of resistance, intense entreatment and eventual, reluctant acceptance. How the reserved son-in-law of the (Previous) Rebbe was induced into assuming the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch.
When you feel like you’re being hunted down by troubles in life, by “enemies,” is G-d simply the One you turn to in the hopes of gaining a divine ally to defeat your enemies? Or are your troubles...
The Levites,
descendants of Jacob’s son Levi, were selected to serve G‑d in the Holy Temple.
Jewish News
Young adults are finding spirituality, and each other, in a part of New York long connected to Jewish life.
Rabbi Tarfon would say: The day is short, the work is much, the workers are lazy, the reward is great, and the Master is pressing... He would also say: It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it...
– Ethics of the Fathers 2:15-16
Warsaw Ghetto Insurgency Begins
(1943)
On January 18, 1943, the Germans began their second deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, which... Read More »
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