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Ki Tavo

Your Questions
Why Are Tefillin Square?

The Talmud gives no actual reason but the Kabbalah provides clues.
By the Numbers
17 Rosh Hashanah Facts Every Jew Should Know

Brush up on basic facts, traditions, and more associated with the Jewish New Year.
10 Questions: Take the Where-Is-That-Chabad-House Quiz

From Uzbekistan to Jamaica - discover some remarkable Chabad Houses.
Hebrew Word of the Week
What Can the Hebrew Word for “Teacher” Teach You?

Focus on the Soul
Phishing for the Soul

The same way our inboxes get flooded with spam, our brains are spammed throughout the day with a bombardment of random thoughts, impulses and desires.
How to Get in Touch With Your Soul

We have two souls, one hungers for the world, the other for the Divine.
Halacha for Life
What You Need to Know About a Yahrtzeit

From lighting candles to Torah study, unravel the intricate customs and practices of a yahrtzeit.
Parshah
How to Cultivate Positivity Bias

Feeling grateful may not come naturally to you, but it can be developed, cultivated and maintained, just like a garden.
For Your Ki Tavo Hakhel Group (PDF)
This weekly study packet is part of theJewishwoman.org “Be a Leader” initiative. Print it out and learn it with your study group.
Story
Elijah the Prophet in Minsk

A chassid went to the Baal Shem Tov in Mezhibuzh. “Rebbe,” he said, “I want to see Elijah the Prophet . . .”
Lifestyle
There are two things that are no cause for worry: that which can be fixed, and that which cannot be fixed. What can be fixed should be fixed -- so what's there to worry? What cannot be fixed cannot be fixed -- so what's there to worry?
— Chassidic master Rabbi Michel of Zelotchov
Print Magazine

Often, anxiety takes root because a person’s external character is incompatible with his or her inner self.

The anxiety may dwell upon other issues and obsessions—but none of these are the true underlying cause.

Most souls can tolerate a few inconsistencies. But others are sensitive to every nuance.

As soon as some asp...

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