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Your Questions
Can Animals Sense the Paranormal?
From being able to detect certain illnesses to exhibiting strange behaviors days before an earthquake, animals exhibit extraordinary senses.
From being able to detect certain illnesses to exhibiting strange behaviors days before an earthquake, animals exhibit extraordinary senses.
Who Was Ravshakeh, Who Insulted King Hezekiah?
The Talmud states that Ravshakeh was a Jewish apostate, meaning a renegade Jew who had disowned his own religion and people.
The Talmud states that Ravshakeh was a Jewish apostate, meaning a renegade Jew who had disowned his own religion and people.
By the Numbers
11 Facts About the 17 Tammuz Fast Day
The 17th day of Tammuz will one day morph from sadness to joy and gladness.
The 17th day of Tammuz will one day morph from sadness to joy and gladness.
13 Powerful Pictures That Illuminate the Arrest and Liberation of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe
An international diplomatic crisis heightened the threat to the Rebbe’s life and helped secure his deliverance.
An international diplomatic crisis heightened the threat to the Rebbe’s life and helped secure his deliverance.
Parshah
Alone, but Not Lonely
The Jewish people have been very much alone throughout history, and that hasn’t changed.
The Jewish people have been very much alone throughout history, and that hasn’t changed.
Counting Other People’s Money
At each of their stops over their forty-year trek, the people made sure to erect their tents in a modest arrangement. Apparently, it was this exceptionally sensitive quality amongst them that made it impossible for Balaam to harm them.
At each of their stops over their forty-year trek, the people made sure to erect their tents in a modest arrangement. Apparently, it was this exceptionally sensitive quality amongst them that made it impossible for Balaam to harm them.
Personal Experiences
Hearing Voices
When you talk to G‑d, it is prayer, but when G‑d talks to you, you need a psychiatrist.
When you talk to G‑d, it is prayer, but when G‑d talks to you, you need a psychiatrist.
On Neurological Pain, Suffering and an Indigenous Tribe’s Coming of Age Ceremony
Our suffering is often compounded by our inability to reconcile any purpose for the suffering.
Our suffering is often compounded by our inability to reconcile any purpose for the suffering.
Lifestyle
"The voice is the voice of Jacob"--no prayer is effective unless the seed of Jacob has a part in it. "The hands are the hands of Esau"--no war is successful unless the seed of Esau has a share in it.
— Talmud
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We Jews are a diverse people. We speak many languages. We live in every part of the world. We have different cultures, foods, political views.
But when a Jew’s mind is absorbed within Torah, it is the same Torah within which another Jew is absorbed. And another Jew. And yet another.
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