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Vayechi
Your Questions
Why Did Non-Kosher Animals Become Jewish Names?
This seems strange, since the sages place great significance on a person’s name.
This seems strange, since the sages place great significance on a person’s name.
10 Tevet
What I Secretly Fear About the Coming of Moshiach
Moshiach is not only a solution for our pain in this life. If that’s what I believe, then why would I risk upheaval for the sake of something that doesn’t affect me in this moment?
Moshiach is not only a solution for our pain in this life. If that’s what I believe, then why would I risk upheaval for the sake of something that doesn’t affect me in this moment?
Keeping the Doors of Communication Open With Your Children and With G-d
In order for me to transmit anything to my children, I need communication. In order to maintain a loving relationship, I need understanding. That means for me, at least, I must always make it clear that the doors of language remain wide open.
In order for me to transmit anything to my children, I need communication. In order to maintain a loving relationship, I need understanding. That means for me, at least, I must always make it clear that the doors of language remain wide open.
Rising Above Challenges
Moving Forward: Releasing the Chokehold of the Past
Allowing yourself to step into a new and healthy reality from a traumatic past is a bit like zip-lining: If you don’t jump off the platform with trust that on the other side of the dense foliage before you there is another platform, then you will never behold the wondrous sights in between.
Allowing yourself to step into a new and healthy reality from a traumatic past is a bit like zip-lining: If you don’t jump off the platform with trust that on the other side of the dense foliage before you there is another platform, then you will never behold the wondrous sights in between.
Parshah
The Secret
Our sages tell us that "Jacob wished to reveal to his sons the end of days, whereupon the divine presence departed from him." Why, indeed, would Jacob wish to do such a thing? If the children of Israel had been told that the date of Moshiach's coming is thousands of years in the future, would this not have had a most adverse effect on their morale?
Our sages tell us that "Jacob wished to reveal to his sons the end of days, whereupon the divine presence departed from him." Why, indeed, would Jacob wish to do such a thing? If the children of Israel had been told that the date of Moshiach's coming is thousands of years in the future, would this not have had a most adverse effect on their morale?
Story
The Story That Was a Prayer
The Rebbe continued speaking, even as the clock ticked closer to midnight.
The Rebbe continued speaking, even as the clock ticked closer to midnight.
Lifestyle
In the Burning Bush, Moses beheld the heart of the simple Jew, who lacks the learning and spiritual achievement of the "fruit bearing trees," and whose heart therefore burns with an insatiable yearning for G-d
— Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
Print Magazine
Afterlife is a very rational, natural consequence of the order of things.
After all, nothing is ever lost—even the body only transforms into earth. But nothing is lost.
So too, the person you are is never lost. That person—that soul—only returns to its origin.
If your soul became acutely attached to the material worl...
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