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Feature of the Week: Daily Dose
Since the early years of Chabad.org, Tzvi Freeman’s Daily Dose of Wisdom has been a beloved staple of our site. Like a delicious cup of coffee, these pithy nuggets of Chassidic wisdom are uplifting, delightful, and just the right thing to start your day. View them on our homepage or on Facebook, get them in your inbox daily and as part of the Hayom App, or enjoy our favorite selections in ebook form and as an actual book for Shabbat enjoyment.
Does Jewish law permit organ donation? Learn the background to this complex question in this in-depth article.
Tzitzit is one of the most conspicuous mitzvot observed. What is the purpose of these fringes? What do they signify? Must everyone wear tzitzit?
The story of Hur is one of heroism, tragedy and, ultimately, redemption.
The problem is not just that we make a poor choice in the moment, but when we fail in our goals, we fall into the depressing cycle of the “willpower trap” that keeps us locked in failure.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel was a legendary, reclusive and acerbic leader of Polish Chassidic Jewry.
The only thing to be done with sinful behavior is to stop it, to repent for it, and never to return to it. As for the power of desire that leads to the sin, it has significantly more positive possibilities.
According to the Jewish calendar, a second month of Adar is added in a leap year. While Purim is usually celebrated in Adar, during a leap year it is postponed until the second Adar, and we mark Purim Katan—“the small Purim”—in the first month.
The lightbulb went on, and it was blinding. For the first time, I had an inkling into my inability to express helplessness, which fueled my desire to armor up.
For survivors of the sudden death of a spouse or family member, they wished they had a chance to say good-bye or say “I love you” one last time.
“Please, forgive me,” muttered the wagon driver. “I had no idea who you were, and I request forgiveness for wronging you.”
The Talmud (Ta'anit 23b) mentions that a woman's charity is greater than a man's. She gives the starving beggar a loaf of bread, while he only provides the means to attain it.
Read that in its inner sense and you will see that it is forever:
A man’s way is to serve your impoverished soul ideas—perhaps you will be wise e...
