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By the Numbers
10 Facts About the Tenth of Tevet
Refresh your memory and learn something new about the fast of 10 Tevet with this interesting compilation.
Refresh your memory and learn something new about the fast of 10 Tevet with this interesting compilation.
Your Questions
How Was Jacob Embalmed? Is It Against Torah?
"Joseph commanded ... to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel."
"Joseph commanded ... to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel."
Parshah
For Darkness to Become a Candle
How could Yaakov's best years have been those that he spent in Egypt, a place of impurity and spiritual darkness?
How could Yaakov's best years have been those that he spent in Egypt, a place of impurity and spiritual darkness?
Reflections
When I Am Besieged With Insecurity . . .
We don’t do anything wrong, but we worry, we’re afraid, we’re anxious—and that in itself holds us prisoner and holds us back. What’s our mission?
We don’t do anything wrong, but we worry, we’re afraid, we’re anxious—and that in itself holds us prisoner and holds us back. What’s our mission?
Lightening the Load: How a Household Chore Became More Inspiring
How did I make my family feel good, feel special, feel singularly loved by me, I thought?
How did I make my family feel good, feel special, feel singularly loved by me, I thought?
Video
Seven Habits for a Happier Life
When you're happy, you'll be kinder to the people around you, and you'll bring more light into the world. Practise these tools to attain a happier life.
When you're happy, you'll be kinder to the people around you, and you'll bring more light into the world. Practise these tools to attain a happier life.
Shabbat Law of the Week
Boneh - Building
Assembling and building a permanent structure is forbidden on Shabbat, and is the av melachah of Boneh.
Assembling and building a permanent structure is forbidden on Shabbat, and is the av melachah of Boneh.
Lifestyle
No sooner was [Abraham] weaned -- and he was but a small child -- that his mind began to seek and wonder: How do the heavenly bodies orbit without a moving force? Who moves them? They cannot move themselves! Immersed amongst the foolish idol-worshippers of Ur Casdim, he had no one to teach him anything; his father, mother and countrymen, and he amongst them, all worshipped idols. But his heart sought, and came to know that there is one G-d... who created all and that in all existence there is none other than Him. He came to know that the entire world erred...
— Maimonides
Print Magazine
We all suffer a maddening delusion of being something separate from G‑d. The delusion of “I.”
We cannot heal it, because yes, we exist, for He created us.
We cannot live with it, because this chilling notion of otherness is a denial of the truth.
But we can resolve it in the act of learning Torah. In learning Torah, He...
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