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“I multiplied Abraham’s seed, and gave him Isaac.” How is the birth of one son the fulfillment of G-d’s promise to multiply Abraham’s seed?
How the Lubavitcher Rebbe approached the perceived conflict between Torah and evolutionary science.
Food Beyond the Angels (Vayeirah)
Abraham stood over them under the tree and they ate.—Genesis 18:8
When Abraham stood over them, only then were the angels capable of eating and elevating their food.—Rabbi Dov Ber of Lubavitch
What more spiritual activity could there be than eating, when it is done not only with the mouth, but with the mind?
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What exactly are we saying? I can understand blessing people, but does G‑d, the Creator and Master of all, really need our blessing?
Our sages have taught, "Whoever gets angry, it is as if he worshipped idols" (Zohar I, 27b). Why? Because at the time of his anger, his faith has left him. For were he to believe that what happened to him was G d’s doing, he would not be angry at all. For although it is a person possessed of free choice that is cursing him, or striking him, or causing damage to his property -- and is accountable according to the laws of man and the laws of heaven for his evil choice -- nevertheless, as regards the person harmed, this [incident] was already decreed in heaven and “G d has many agents” [to carry out the decree]...
– Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (Tanya, Iggeret Hakodesh 25)
Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
(1995)
Yitzhak Rabin, Commander-in-Chief of the IDF during the Six Day War and later Prime Minister of... Read More »
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