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Nitzavim-Vayelech

Your Questions
Why Do We Specifically Dip an Apple in Honey?

Why not mangoes dipped in maple syrup, for example?
What Are Selichot?

This Saturday night we begin to recite Selichot, a series of penitential prayers and liturgy.
I Wasted Half My Life Trying to Find My Purpose

Why did I have to waste so much time when I could have been doing this all along—something I love that contributes to others?
Story
The Rabbi Who Cried Over Spilled Ink

A simple, uncouth individual, dressed in the attire of ignorant and coarse men, came to his home.
The Cry of the Shofar: Two Parables

A King had an only son, the apple of his eye. The King wanted his son to master different fields of knowledge and to experience various cultures, so he sent him to a far-off country...
Jewish News
Virgin Islands Rabbi: ‘Here Not Only When the Sun Is Shining’

Caring for islanders’ spiritual and material welfare after Irma's devastation.
Battered and Flooded, Florida Jewish Communities Assess Irma’s Toll

Some areas are still not accessible, others were relatively spared.
Parshah: Nitzavim Vayelech
This Week's Haftarah Companion

The joy of young newlyweds is used by the prophet to describe the kind of joy we will experience.
5 Powerful Insights From the Rebbe on the Parshah

Enjoy four short thoughts and a video adapted from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech.
Women
A Five-Year Detour: My Path to Becoming Observant

I stumbled upon Chabad seemingly by accident shortly before I finished university.
Lifestyle
Apple Turnovers

Follow the majority . . . [but] do not follow the majority to do evil.
— Exodus 23:2
Print Magazine

True peace is not a forced truce, not a homogenization of differences, not a common ground that abandons our home territories.

True peace is the oneness that sprouts from diversity, the beauty that emerges from a panorama of colors, strokes and textures, from the harmony of many instruments each playing a unique part, n...

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