ב"ה
Behaalotecha
Your Questions
What Does "Kvetch" Mean?
Kvetch literally means “squeeze” in Yiddish, and commonly refers to whining, complaining, and grousing.
Kvetch literally means “squeeze” in Yiddish, and commonly refers to whining, complaining, and grousing.
Why Is My Life So Hard?
The smooth and easy times may be pleasant, but the riches of life come when things take hard work.
The smooth and easy times may be pleasant, but the riches of life come when things take hard work.
Essay
The Inside Scoop on the Prophet Ezekiel
Ezekiel spent the bulk of his life in Babylonia, where he envisioned most of his prophecies.
Ezekiel spent the bulk of his life in Babylonia, where he envisioned most of his prophecies.
Women
Dealing With Customer Service Infuriates Me!
As I’ve grown older, I have tried to control my temper better and been fairly successful. Unfortunately, there’s one area of my life where I find this infinitely challenging.
As I’ve grown older, I have tried to control my temper better and been fairly successful. Unfortunately, there’s one area of my life where I find this infinitely challenging.
Story
The Jealous Neighbor
When the two neighbors would pass each other in the yard, the scholar would throw the crass materialist a look of contempt and hurry on to his holy pursuits.
When the two neighbors would pass each other in the yard, the scholar would throw the crass materialist a look of contempt and hurry on to his holy pursuits.
Parshah
Faith and Friendship
After all that had happened – the miracles, the exodus, the division of the sea, food from heaven, water from a rock, the revelation at Sinai and the covenant that went with it – the people, yet again, were complaining about the food. And not because they were hungry; merely because they were bored.
After all that had happened – the miracles, the exodus, the division of the sea, food from heaven, water from a rock, the revelation at Sinai and the covenant that went with it – the people, yet again, were complaining about the food. And not because they were hungry; merely because they were bored.
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 Behaalotecha.
Enjoy four short thoughts and a video adapted from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Parshat Behaalotecha.
Lifestyle
A chassid is never lonely
— Chassidic saying
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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