Pinchas
Israel Is In Our Prayers
Dear Friend,
As we send you this magazine, our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land are under fire. A barrage of rockets is raining down on the south and center of Israel, threatening the lives of millions of civilians.
In this week’s magazine, we have included articles about the situation and what we can attempt to do about it. Together with the entire Jewish people, we pray to G‑d that Israel succeeds in its mission to bring true and lasting peace and security to its inhabitants and its neighbors.
And even as the situation seems frightening—and for those in Israel, especially the children, it certainly is—let us remember the Torah’s assurance that Israel is the “land upon which G‑d’s eyes are constantly focused,” and that even in the darkest hours, He is right alongside us.
The Chabad.org Editorial Team
With our brothers and sisters in Israel under rocket fire, every Jew is asking him or herself: What can I do to help?
The entire country felt it. There was a unity, a connection that was palpable.
They call it just revenge. What a shame that they never paid attention to the daily prayers.
What does it mean to have a good life, a successful life? How do we handle life when it doesn’t bring us everything we hoped for?
Pinchas’s deed evokes many associations—courage, decisiveness and religious passion are several that come to mind—but peace hardly seems one of them. After all, he killed two people.
Pinchas is rewarded for his zealotry. Another census, the laws of inheritance, and the division of the Land of Israel. Moses appoints Joshua as his successor.
The nook was a haven that attracted the unfortunate—spinsters, widows, women who were destitute, lonely, or otherwise down and out.
Chassidut teaches us that inherent within the chaos is a grain of rectification from which spontaneous order can sprout. In a most wondrous, counterintuitive way, that grain of order is concealed within time itself. This was Meheitavel’s secret, and the secret of every woman: the ability to infuse order into a world of total chaos . . .
I don't know if the unethical practices hurt anyone, but I really want to tell the management.
I’m overscheduled, overtaxed and overwhelmed. To top it all off, my husband keeps nagging me to get rid of stuff.
"Please Rebbe," sobbed the man, "tell me how to repent. Give me a remedy. Save me from this unbearable affliction!"
With prayer, Torah study, self-reflection and acts of kindness, people from all walks of life in every corner of the globe commemorated the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.
After decades of being served by “Roving Rabbis”—rabbinical students sent by Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters to traverse the state each summer—Mississippi is poised to greet Rabbi Akiva and Hannah Hall and become the 49th state in the union to have its own full-time Chabad presence.
Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Loschak, director of Chabad of S. Barbara, Calif., who worked tirelessly to spread Jewish observance and awareness in Southern California since 1979, passed away on July 1. He was 62 years old.
“Soul Encounters: A Journey of Connection, Reflection and Upliftment”, a day-long conference, brought together Jewish leaders, educators, lecturers and an audience of almost 1,000 who learned about the life and legacy of the Rebbe,
We celebrated our daughter’s first time lighting Shabbat candles with these cake dolls.
This is a painting of the full Hebrew text of Psalms chapter 44 in dark blue, light blue, white and gold.
As you treat others here below, so you are treated above.
Perhaps someone once tried to tell you about the ugly deeds of another.
You really wanted to hear. But you knew that’s not right. Gossip is a form of murder, and you did not wish to be an accomplice.
Mustering all your moral strength, you quietly responded, “I...
