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Chayei Sarah

Your Questions
Why Is Jewishness Matrilineal?

The Code of Jewish Law states that a child of a Jewish mother is Jewish, regardless of the father’s lineage.
Why Do Mourners Tear Their Garments?

Tearing garments upon the death of a close relative, "keriah" in Hebrew, dates back to biblical times.
What Is the Amidah?

The sages established that the Amidah be said three times daily, and they composed words of praise and requests to be said at those times.
Parshah
What We Learn From Eliezer’s Words

Why are so many complex laws in the Torah written in so few words?
The Strangest Shidduch

"Opposites attract" -- but how opposite can happily married spouses be? Take Isaac and Rebecca. Or G‑d and our world
Story
The Muddy Path to Paradise

The suddenness of the rebbe’s appearance in his city caught the chassid, along with his wide-open mansion, off guard. Left with no choice, he reluctantly surrendered his house so that it could serve as the rebbe’s accommodation.
Women
Why Perfectly Imperfect is Just Right

I thought perfection was the goal. I was young and naive.
Jewish News
A Journalist’s Insights Into Chabad From Record-Breaking U.S. Tour

Gil Hoffman talks Israel, outreach and Jewish life.
Hebrew School Party

By virtue of its inborn nature, the mind rules the heart
— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi
Print Magazine
What Is Alef? (A Point Above, a Point Below)

What is an alef?
A point above, a point below, and a line between.

Whatever we may understand of Him
is but an infinitesimal point above.

The only way we can join with Him
is as an infinitesmal point below.

And what empowers us to become this zero-point below
that resonates with the infinite-point above?

Our awe...