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Feature of the Week: Jewish Birthday Calculator
Your Jewish birthday—the anniversary of your birth on the Hebrew calendar—is a big deal. Have you ever wondered when your Jewish birthday is? Do you have a friend or loved one who never learned their Jewish birthday?
With Chabad.org’s Jewish Birthday Calculator, you can swiftly discover any birthday. Surprise a cousin or a colleague and share with them their Hebrew birthday. While you’re at it, learn about and share the special significance of one’s birthday, a time not just of festivities, but of introspection and improvement as well.
At the conclusion of each of the Five Books of Moses, the congregation stands and calls out “Chazak, chazak, venitchazek!” (“Be strong, be strong, and we will be strong!”).
This prohibition applies to all tattoos besides those made for medical purposes . . .
These words will help you in basic conversation and also give a glimpse into the fundamentals of the Jewish religion.
Known in Hebrew as Shulchan Aruch (“Set Table”), the Code of Jewish Law lays out practical and concise instructions culled from the intricate web of Talmudic deliberation and rabbinic commentaries that come along with it.
When our ancestors traveled in the desert, they were surrounded by a layer of miraculous cloud, which protected, pampered, and provided for them.
The common factor was generosity. Jews may not always make the right choices in what they give to, but they give.
It was the Monday morning right after the Pittsburgh synagogue attack, and I had not yet determined if and how I would approach the topic with my public school sixth-grade class.
Although I may never be fully at liberty to do exactly what I wish when I want to, the gift of children and the challenges they have afforded me can only make me stronger, wiser, better.
The Berditchever Rebbe calmed him and asked, "Is there anyone you suspect in the theft?"
It is not so much that we need to be taken out of exile.
It is that we must take the exile out of ourselves.
What is exile? It is the belief that there is some place outside of G-d.
And that in that place, there are forces stronger than G-d.
And those forces will not allow you to do what your soul came here to do.
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