ב"ה
Behaalotecha
Parshah
Eldad & Medad: The Mysterious Prophets
Eldad and Medad are the protagonists of a cryptic episode in the portion of Behaalotecha
Eldad and Medad are the protagonists of a cryptic episode in the portion of Behaalotecha
Crisis In Jerusalem
The leaders of the Jewish people at the time, the Sons of Betayra, could not decide. Hillel, alone amongst the sages, knew the answer to the question.
The leaders of the Jewish people at the time, the Sons of Betayra, could not decide. Hillel, alone amongst the sages, knew the answer to the question.
Your Questions
Why Are Women Exempt From Certain Mitzvahs?
The Mishnah tells us that women are generally exempt from all obligations that must be fulfilled at a specific time. Why is that?
The Mishnah tells us that women are generally exempt from all obligations that must be fulfilled at a specific time. Why is that?
What Is a Yeshiva?
According to tradition, the institution of the yeshiva predates even the giving of the Torah.
According to tradition, the institution of the yeshiva predates even the giving of the Torah.
Women
10 Ways to Get Along With Your New Daughter-in-Law
There are many mothers and daughters-in-law who get along wonderfully. Expect to be one of them.
There are many mothers and daughters-in-law who get along wonderfully. Expect to be one of them.
When the Nursing Didn’t Flow: Four Things I Learned
It was 4 in the morning, and the whole house was quiet and asleep. I sat alone on a couch in the living room, silently sobbing with a frantic baby in my arms. A few weeks into motherhood found me exhausted, bewildered and unable to breastfeed.
It was 4 in the morning, and the whole house was quiet and asleep. I sat alone on a couch in the living room, silently sobbing with a frantic baby in my arms. A few weeks into motherhood found me exhausted, bewildered and unable to breastfeed.
Stories
Seventy Kopeks
That's the profit from the sale of a calf in the marketplace of the White Russian town of Lubavitch
That's the profit from the sale of a calf in the marketplace of the White Russian town of Lubavitch
Lifestyle
Whoever has faith in individual Divine Providence knows that "Man's steps are established by G-d" (Psalms 37:23)--that this particular soul must purify and improve something specific in a particular place. For centuries, or even since the world's creation, that which needs purification or improvement waits for this soul to come and purify or improve it. The soul too, has been waiting - ever since it came into being - for its time to descend, so that it can discharge the tasks of purification and improvement assigned to it.
Hayom Yom, Elul 3
Print Magazine
Man sees a tree and the tree says, “I am here, I was here, and I am nothing more but a thing that is here.”
Man ponders and answers, “No! I give you a name! You are ‘tree’! You have beauty and you have a soul. You point upwards and you say, ‘There is something higher, there is the One who gives me life and gives me my ve...
New on Chabad.org