Vayishlach
We're Excited About This New Video Series
There are a lot of great, short videos going around these days, especially with Chanukah starting next week (Thursday night, Dec. 10). But here’s a video that will open your eyes wide.
A team of ten hyper-creative minds have brought to life some of the most essential mysteries of Torah in a series of 3D animations.
They’ve done it just in time for the 19th of Kislev (this Shabbat), the day the Czarist regime released Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi from his imprisonment and interrogation in 1797, effectively granting the chassidic movement a license to flourish.
Want to understand how G‑d created heaven and earth? How He constantly regenerates our universe out of nothing? How we can commune with His infinite light? What our purpose is within this grand scheme? And want to actually see it all in 3D action—with the sound effects?
Follow the twelve-episode series called “How G‑d Creates the World” every Tuesday at Chabad.org, starting this week.
The prophets foretold of a time when “the glory of G‑d will be revealed and all flesh will see.” In other words, we won’t have to learn about these things in a book. We’ll see it with our eyes.
We just came one step closer.
Chabad.org lists some newer “holidays.” How can we add holidays?
Marriage has been getting a bad rap lately, and it’s entirely unjustified. Decades of studies on human wellbeing provide the same conclusions consistently . . .
Become an expert on this widely celebrated but barely understood Jewish festival.
Take this quiz to see how well you know the various mitzvot that are done daily in the life of a Jew.
An 8-year-old girl’s suggestion saves a kindly man’s life
I will never forget that night, five years ago, when my husband and I almost died. It was an event of pure terror coupled with the deepest faith in G-d. Even now, so many years later, tears come to my eyes when I speak about it.
Novelty has given way to boredom. Excitement to anxiety. It’s become the staycation that never ends. How can I feel joy during this Festival of Lights when I’m home alone again?
Sometimes it’s just a camel when it’s supposed to be a cow. A non-kosher offering to a pagan god.
In this world, we cannot attain absolute perfection, absolute truth, or absolute good. What is required of us is an incredibly difficult form of existence. We must live continually with partial truth, which stems from compromise.
I am working on taking Him with me wherever I go and to make Him relevant in every part of my life, even the mundane parts.
I had become a firm believer in the maxim: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” And then everything changed.
Sewing is forbidden on Shabbat. This includes attaching two different items using any medium which firmly holds them together, like gluing, stapling, or pinning.
The Rebbe describes the following as a core teaching of the Baal Shem Tov:
Not only are the pirouettes of a leaf as it falls off a tree,
the quivering of a blade of grass in the wind,
and all the details of the world around you
all brought into being, given life and directed every moment from Above—
but beyond ...
