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Rosh Hashanah 5766 - October 3, 2005

Adam's Birthday

Some of my best friends are atheists. And I can hear them saying: "You can be a moral and ethical person also if you don't believe in and respect G-d"
What Is Rosh Hashanah?
The Jewish New Year, anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, a day of judgment and coronation, celebrated with sounding of the shofar, prayer, and eating sweet foods.
Story
In the Land of Obmah

After a month of determined journeying, the elders of Obmah reached the deep caves of Igsirous, the last bastion of loyalty to King Avmal remaining in the kingdom...
Sweet Stings

On Rosh Hashanah we eat apples and honey for a sweet new year. Why specifically apples and honey?
Torn Together: The Author's Response

Where do you apply your healing to a nation that has succumbed to such a life-threatening disorder? I chose to look for some cells that were still breathing strong...
Parshah
Nitzavim in a Nutshell
This short, forty-verse Parshah includes some of the most fundamental principles of the Jewish faith: the diverse unity of Israel, the practicality of Torah, the future redemption, freedom of choice . . .
Rosh Hashanah Torah Readings in a Nutshell
Remembrance and laughter, banishment and benevolence, seven sheep and a well, the ultimate sacrifice and the origin of Jerusalem.
News
President Bush Singles Out Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries for Saving Lives
"He called in folks to help. He didn't say, head away from the storm; he said, let's take it right to the middle of the storm area to help people. They helped rescue stranded people... In the days after Katrina hit, Chabad saved lives." -- President Bush
For so said the L-rd, the Creator of heaven, Who is G-d, Who formed the earth and made it, He established it: He did not create it for chaos, He formed it to be civilized
— Isaiah 45:18
Print Magazine

Afterlife is a very rational, natural consequence of the order of things.
After all, nothing is ever lost—even the body only transforms into earth. But nothing is lost.

So too, the person you are is never lost. That person—that soul—only returns to its origin.

If your soul became acutely attached to the material worl...

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