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Can We Make You a Cup of Hot Cocoa?

January 26, 2015 1:56 PM

Dear Friend,

Can Chabad.org serve you a cup of steaming hot cocoa? While we wish we can, and technology is making remarkable progress, that app has yet to be developed.

We do, however, want to reach out to our readers across the United States, and particularly in the Northeast. The storm is coming fast and furiously, and many of us will find ourselves with extra time at home during the next couple of days. Extra time to relax, time to enjoy the beautiful powdery white stuff, time to connect with our families and loved ones—and time to study Torah!

So here are some suggested videos and reads—both for adults and for children—which we hope you will enjoy.

Here is a story to enjoy and discuss with children, a perspective to spark parshah conversation and thoughtful Chassidic insight fresh from the Chabad.org press.

For those of you with kids home from school, here is a great video to watch together, an easy and entertaining recipe and a craft you can make with just duct tape.

On the topic of videos, here is a motivational talk of the Rebbe, a parenting workshop from a widely acclaimed educator and a parshah lecture from one of our favorite presenters.

Providentially, we’re gearing up to an historic date on the modern Jewish calendar at the end of this week. Read more about it here. And, if you haven’t acquired them yet, these two books can definitely illuminate the date’s significance some more: amzn.com/1592643817 and amzn.com/0062318985

Stay warm and safe, and please reach out to your neighbors—especially the elderly. We pray that the storm harms no one. Oh, and don't forget to make a nice kosher cup of hot cocoa with marshmallows—and serve it to yourself on our behalf.

Your friends at Chabad.org

P.S.: We want to hear from you. Share your winter stories (or frustrations) with us, and if you are not in the Northeast, please enjoy (or kvetch about) whatever weather G‑d has sent your way. Click here to share. And for all of you in the Southern Hemisphere, enjoy these summer days.

P.P.S.: There’s so much more to read and watch. Subscribe to our weekly magazine to be the first to find out what’s new every week. Or “Like” us on Facebook for a steady stream of inspiration and entertainment.

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Rut Ramat Negev February 2, 2015

What a nice letter. Thank you for the wonderful preparation and suggestions. Reply

tara colton,oregon January 28, 2015

Here!in colton,Oregon it is sunny and warm.I just washed my truck and car.the birds are happy and those planes are making those strange white trails in the sky all day.I'm beginning to think they are making climate change.its supposed to be freezing and snow but you east coast folks are getting it hard!I'm praying for all of you.keep warm and safe. Shalom Reply

tovah jerusalem January 28, 2015

the weather i live in jerusalem and the weather here is spring like weather very beautiful.
all of you jews in the states need to come to live here in jerusalem and
make aliyan Reply

Morena Thabo UK January 28, 2015

"CNN was scheduled to have a program concerning the liberation f Auschwitz because today was the 70th anniversary of that disaster. Instead, they decided to continue to yack on and on and on about the storm in the northeast."

Should CNN not be congratulated for living in 2015, not 1945 - or 45 AD or 1045 BC or 2045 BC or 3045 BC.

Just because we have ten digits and count in tens, some people think there is something special about any anniversary that has a ten in it. Such years are no different from any other. When will the world realise that? Reply

amichai MN January 28, 2015

minnesota I live too far away to even matter. Yeah, we got snow. Then it melted.
and I still live too far away twin cities. woe is me, the hot cocoa sounds very nice though!!! thankyou Chabad!! You are in my prayers.
Shalom Reply

Barry Stevenson January 28, 2015

From New Zealand, keep watching the Middle East and Israel. Where it is getting dry and very hot, as we enjoy our summer holidays. Looking towards Israel G-d appears to be leading the prince of Rosh who is likely to be joined by the greeks in what appears to be the start of the Gog Magog war mentioned in Ezekiei's scripture. Enjoy or be enlightened by G d as you watch this unfold.

shalom Reply

Beverly Margolis-Kurtin Texas January 27, 2015

A Terrible Mental Disease Today, for some reason or another, it dawned on me that Antisemitism, a/k/a/ Jew hate, is a mental disease.
If someone hears voices when nobody is around, they have a mental disease known as schizophrenia.
If someone believes that Jews have done things that they have never done; if they believe that the "Protocols" are real, if they believe that we use Christian blood for making matzo, isn't that a mental disease? They are believing things that are not real and never have been real.
From this day forward, I will accuse of Jew haters of having a mental disease that is going to require psychiatric treatment to overcome.
What else could hating Jews be? We have never done what we're accused of doing! Reply

Beverly Margolis-Kurtin Texas January 27, 2015

The Holocaust? CNN was scheduled to have a program concerning the liberation f Auschwitz because today was the 70th anniversary of that disaster. Instead, they decided to continue to yack on and on and on about the storm in the northeast.

This past Sunday CBS lost me permanently as the only two shows I used to watch were not showed as scheduled. I've never been a fan of television since it started to interfere with my radio shows back in the '50s. My all time favorite channel is KOFF. Ah, the silence that comes when that thing is off.

Thanks, CNN, you've finally lost me. Not that they will care about losing one viewer, they don't care about viewers anyway. I've finally learned the lesson that I can live without a TV, period. Reply

Beverly Margolis-Kurtin Texas January 27, 2015

81F today in D/FW Today was the first time this year that I had to use the air conditioner in my car! The temperature hit around 81 in northeast Texas. Not to worry though, we're heading back to the 40s later this week. Reply

Evie Scottsdale AZ January 27, 2015

I am very happy reading everything you send to me. It helps a lot. But I also
want to say that I had a horrible month of Dec. w/ a CT scan that showed
a Spot in my pancreas. I told G-D : I am in your hands. I had a MRI and the spot had disappear. Now, this Sunday, I had a car accident. My car flew in the air.
NOTHING happened to me. Needless to say about the car. My side door was destroyed and the back door too. G-D is GREAT. I am always saying Thank you for everything HE gives me. I would like to tell everybody, to pray and pray and NEVER stop saying thank you for all the things we receive every day. Reply

Mrs. A. Safonoff January 27, 2015

Thanks for the nice message. My husband and I now live in Israel. We will have some light rain tomorrow according to the Weather Channel. We live in Kiryat Shmone, Israel. Reply

Carl Chudnofsky via chabadnatick.com January 27, 2015

Sitting home reading "REBBE" bY Joseph Telushkin
B' shalom,
Carl Chudnofsky Reply

Morena Thabo UK January 27, 2015

"We do, however, want to reach out to our readers across the United States, and particularly in the Northeast. The storm is coming fast and furiously, and many of us will find ourselves with extra time at home during the next couple of days. Extra time to relax, time to enjoy the beautiful powdery white stuff, time to connect with our families and loved ones—and time to study Torah!"

Yes - and to think about the Billions of people living without all the trappings of middle class America.

This paragraph is all about ME and US. What about THEM?

As for the "easy and entertaining recipe" - which looks like just more teeth-rotting sweet food for already well-fed children - why not look for the homeless where you live and give (yes - GIVE) them some of the food you would have had yourselves?

I'm sure a certain deity would think better of you for thinking of others as temperatures plummet, power lines come down, and hospitals become overloaded with the destitute. Reply

Anonymous January 27, 2015

Psalms I have been told that the Psalms in the Torah (Tanak) are different to the psalms in the Bible can you tell me where I can get a copy as this is important for my research. Thank you for your considearation. Reply

Aharon Goldstein Berlin January 27, 2015

Jews in Russia in winters between 1941 and 1944 B"H

Dear friends,

Allow me 24 hours to reflect on my story and come back with it tomorrow: too many emotions come around this time and I need time to reflect...
To all of you wherever Hashem led you this time of the day, allow me to wish you much health and better time.Have a cup of steaming hot cocoa, menwhile.

Hatzlocho un Brocho

Best from Berlin. Reply

Daphne Port Elizabeth January 27, 2015

the snow I was born and bred in Southern Rhodesia and was forced to leave my beautiful land and now living in South Africa. We only have snow on th Drakensburg mountain and in small places around Cape Town. This means I have never seen real snow
However I will share with you wuth all the interesting subjects you will be watching. Wonderful to be part of your family - Daphne Reply

jose mauricio moraes vinha sao jose rio preto January 27, 2015

thanks thanks for invite Reply

Natalie Kehr January 27, 2015

Why pray? If anyone is harmed in the storms, does it mean that God decided to ignore your prayers, or is it your fault for not praying hard enough? Reply

Anonymous 38637 January 26, 2015

Happy our Rabbi is home from New York Thank you for everything you do, we appreciate it very much. Reply

Yudit sunny Florida January 26, 2015

Thanks so much for this warm encouragement. My prayers and thoughts for all. Reply

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