ב"ה
Yud-Tet Kislev 5767 - December 10, 2006
Parshah
Vayishlach in a Nutshell
Jacob’s confrontation with Esau, the long journey to Seir, the abduction of Dinah, Reuben’s sin, and the eight primordial kings of Edom.
Jacob’s confrontation with Esau, the long journey to Seir, the abduction of Dinah, Reuben’s sin, and the eight primordial kings of Edom.
Relationships
Why Are All the Good Husbands Already Taken?
My friends' spouses are all such wonderful people, but the guys I meet all seem to be missing something. What am I doing wrong?
My friends' spouses are all such wonderful people, but the guys I meet all seem to be missing something. What am I doing wrong?
Rabbi Kadoozy's Grandfather's Shoe Menorah
Rabbi Kadoozy works on finding a way out of prison, Jono trains for his donut eating contest, and Gefilte Fish tries to sell his exploding dreidels to the government... All in the RIK Chanukah Mini0Series Part 2!
Rabbi Kadoozy works on finding a way out of prison, Jono trains for his donut eating contest, and Gefilte Fish tries to sell his exploding dreidels to the government... All in the RIK Chanukah Mini0Series Part 2!
Story
One or the Other
"If you are truly a Rebbe," said the chassid, "then no harm will befall you. And if you are not--you deserve it!"
"If you are truly a Rebbe," said the chassid, "then no harm will befall you. And if you are not--you deserve it!"
‘F’ Is for ‘Freedom!’
He kept mentioning “Freedom Rules,” and that's where he really got me thinking. How can there be rules in Freedom?
He kept mentioning “Freedom Rules,” and that's where he really got me thinking. How can there be rules in Freedom?
When my master and teacher [R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi] was in a state of d'veikut (lit. "attachment," a trance-like state of ecstatic cleaving to G-d) he would cry out: "I want nothing at all! I don't want Your 'garden of eden,' I don't want Your 'world to come'... I want nothing but You alone."
— Related by Rabbi Schneur Zalman's grandson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch
Print Magazine
You don't learn by having faith. You learn by questioning, by challenging, by re-examining everything you've ever believed.
And yet, all this is a matter of faith
—the faith that there is a truth to be found.
It is another paradox: To truly question, you must truly have faith.
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