Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
If you heard a world-class violinist in the subway, would you stop to listen?
The Baal Shem Tov taught:
You must know that everything depends on you. That with your every mitzvah, the universe resonates in blissful harmony that heals and nurtures. That with a single sin, the entire cosmic symphony falls apart in a cacophony.
Because if you pretend to be humble, saying, “Who am I, this lowly cre...
Virtually cut off from other Jewish centers, the Mountain Jews developed their own way of life.
When to pray? When is Shabbat? What to do when time and space are not what they are on earth?
“G‑d is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?. . . My adversaries and my enemies against me? They stumbled and fell!”
Even without a voice, even being cut off from most people, I could find my own path to happiness and emotional health.
And the dove returned to him at eventide, and behold it had plucked an olive leaf in its mouth; so Noah knew that the water had abated from upon the earth.
– Genesis 8:11
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Passing of Ben Ish Chai
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