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Your Questions
Since When Did Mourners Start Saying Kaddish Together?
In the past, only one mourner was honored with the task of saying Kaddish, which makes sense
In the past, only one mourner was honored with the task of saying Kaddish, which makes sense
Is Risky or Experimental Medical Treatment Kosher?
A patient has advanced metastatic cancer and the doctors believe she will succumb. There is one new experimental treatment which may possibly reverse the disease, but the treatment is dangerous, and if it does not succeed it will kill her.
A patient has advanced metastatic cancer and the doctors believe she will succumb. There is one new experimental treatment which may possibly reverse the disease, but the treatment is dangerous, and if it does not succeed it will kill her.
Should You Trust It Will Be Good When Everything Looks Bad?
Even as the cold blade of a sharp sword lies upon your neck…
Even as the cold blade of a sharp sword lies upon your neck…
By the Numbers
4 Strategies for More Meaningful Conversations
Studies show that social interactions, even if very brief, leave us feeling more satisfied and happy.
Studies show that social interactions, even if very brief, leave us feeling more satisfied and happy.
Parshah
The Thanksgiving Jew
Why are all Jews called by the name of just one of the tribes, Judah? What is it about thanksgiving that captures the essence of the Children of Israel?
Why are all Jews called by the name of just one of the tribes, Judah? What is it about thanksgiving that captures the essence of the Children of Israel?
Love or Children?
The loving relationship and the child-rearing partnership highlight two human aspects that relate to the essence of the connection between a man and a woman.
The loving relationship and the child-rearing partnership highlight two human aspects that relate to the essence of the connection between a man and a woman.
Video
Is Sibling Rivalry Ever a Healthy Thing?
Envy is a grievous sin. It’s on the top ten list engraved on Moses’s stone tablets. And yet even envy can assume a form that is healthy and holy. (“Parsha Perks” with Dr Michael Chighel | Veyetze)
Envy is a grievous sin. It’s on the top ten list engraved on Moses’s stone tablets. And yet even envy can assume a form that is healthy and holy. (“Parsha Perks” with Dr Michael Chighel | Veyetze)
A Vision of Peace
On the 10th of Kislev, the second Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi DovBer was liberated from prison. He was freed just nine days before Chasidim would celebrate the release of his father, Rabbi Schneur Zalman. Both the Alter Rebbe and the Mitteler Rebbe connected their release from prison to the verse in Psalms, “my soul was redeemed in peace,” a verse that will be fully realized with the ultimate arrival of Moshiach. The lesson for us: A Jew should always be permeated with the idea that every person can bring redemption to the world.
On the 10th of Kislev, the second Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi DovBer was liberated from prison. He was freed just nine days before Chasidim would celebrate the release of his father, Rabbi Schneur Zalman. Both the Alter Rebbe and the Mitteler Rebbe connected their release from prison to the verse in Psalms, “my soul was redeemed in peace,” a verse that will be fully realized with the ultimate arrival of Moshiach. The lesson for us: A Jew should always be permeated with the idea that every person can bring redemption to the world.
Our Lives
Judaism, Jails and Justice: A Conversation With Judge Jack B. Weinstein
The 98-year-old federal jurist speaks about criminal justice, the Aleph Institute, and the Rebbe’s influence on his life and work
The 98-year-old federal jurist speaks about criminal justice, the Aleph Institute, and the Rebbe’s influence on his life and work
What Mikhail Gorbachev Taught Me When I Asked for His Autograph
Every single event, factor and statistical analysis with absolute certainty would predict my future to be the exact opposite of what it is today.
Every single event, factor and statistical analysis with absolute certainty would predict my future to be the exact opposite of what it is today.
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The Mitteler Rebbe
Rabbi Dovber was the eldest son and successor of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the founder of Chabad.
Rabbi Dovber was the eldest son and successor of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the founder of Chabad.
The healing of the soul is like the healing of the body: The crucial first step is to identify the location of the illness.
— Hayom Yom, Sivan 16
Print Magazine
Blind faith cannot grasp Truth, because it does not grasp anything at all.
Intellect cannot grasp Truth, because intellect is finite and Truth is infinite.
Only the eye of the soul, its inner wisdom, can grasp Truth and know it as she knows her own self.
For she is Truth.
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