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Your Questions
Why Isn’t Poultry and Dairy Kosher?
Contrary to popular misconception, the rabbis were not afraid that a piece of chicken has the same appearance as a piece of meat
Contrary to popular misconception, the rabbis were not afraid that a piece of chicken has the same appearance as a piece of meat
Who Was Elisheva?
Elisheba appears just once in the Torah. To learn more, we dig deep into rabbinic and kabbalistic texts…
Elisheba appears just once in the Torah. To learn more, we dig deep into rabbinic and kabbalistic texts…
Parshah
Why Did Moses Hit the Rock?
If striking the rock was so awful, why was it okay so many years earlier? Why didn't Moses follow G-d's simple instructions? Why did this seemingly minor offense have such severe consequences?
If striking the rock was so awful, why was it okay so many years earlier? Why didn't Moses follow G-d's simple instructions? Why did this seemingly minor offense have such severe consequences?
The Crouching Lion
The details differ (a tiger raised in a Brooklyn apartment, a circus lion losing it in the ring) but the basic story is the same: a large cat "suddenly" sheds its domesticated persona and... well, you don't want to be in its way when that happens
The details differ (a tiger raised in a Brooklyn apartment, a circus lion losing it in the ring) but the basic story is the same: a large cat "suddenly" sheds its domesticated persona and... well, you don't want to be in its way when that happens
Video
I Survived, but I Also Thrived
An interview with Rabbi Avremi Zippel and his mother, Rebbetzin Sharonne Zippel by Chana Weisberg. Rabbi Avremi is an abuse survivor and tells the story of how he overcame his past and looks forward to the future. The Zippels are Chabad shluchim (emissaries) in Salt Lake City, Utah.
An interview with Rabbi Avremi Zippel and his mother, Rebbetzin Sharonne Zippel by Chana Weisberg. Rabbi Avremi is an abuse survivor and tells the story of how he overcame his past and looks forward to the future. The Zippels are Chabad shluchim (emissaries) in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Focus on the Individual
In 1927, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, was arrested for his efforts to save Judaism from being stamped out in the face of Soviet repression.
In 1927, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, was arrested for his efforts to save Judaism from being stamped out in the face of Soviet repression.
Voices
Swapping the Cross of My Childhood for a Star of David
My journey to find my Jewish reality is fairly recent and in the beginning was quite tentative. When I began to seek out places to go to services, I had no idea how healing that would be.
My journey to find my Jewish reality is fairly recent and in the beginning was quite tentative. When I began to seek out places to go to services, I had no idea how healing that would be.
When My Mother Turned 94...
I had gotten the idea from a friend whose elderly mother had, like mine, never done any Torah study.
I had gotten the idea from a friend whose elderly mother had, like mine, never done any Torah study.
12 Tammuz
The Coin Toss Was Not Random
While he was talking, the future rebbe took out a coin and began to flip it up into the air
While he was talking, the future rebbe took out a coin and began to flip it up into the air
Melachah of the Week
Zoreh - Winnowing
Winnowing refers to the act of removing chaff from grain, using wind to blow the lighter chaff away from the heavier kernels.
Winnowing refers to the act of removing chaff from grain, using wind to blow the lighter chaff away from the heavier kernels.
Rabbi Chanina the son of Dosa would say: One whose fear of sin takes precedence to his wisdom, his wisdom endures. But one whose wisdom takes precedence to his fear of sin, his wisdom does not endure
— Ethics of the Fathers 3:9
Print Magazine
Yesterday, you were inspired.
Today, that is all gone.
And so, you are depressed.
But this is the way the system works: Everything begins with inspiration.
Then the inspiration steps aside
—to make room for you to do something with it.
For fire to become deeds.
Because inspiration without action is like a flame wit...
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