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Yom Kippur
Essay
So You’ve Got a Chunk of G-d Inside You
Within each of us is a breath of the divine, a neshamah. Everything else is created by speech. She is created by breath and by thought. Everything else is obsessed with being just what it is. But the neshamah hears the music of creation and yearns for it to be heard.
Within each of us is a breath of the divine, a neshamah. Everything else is created by speech. She is created by breath and by thought. Everything else is obsessed with being just what it is. But the neshamah hears the music of creation and yearns for it to be heard.
Can Prayer Really Change Your Reality?
Our very own Queen Esther teaches us that while practical actions are necessary to succeed in any endeavor, spiritual efforts have the real impact in drawing down G-d’s blessings.
Our very own Queen Esther teaches us that while practical actions are necessary to succeed in any endeavor, spiritual efforts have the real impact in drawing down G-d’s blessings.
Your Questions
How Can a Coffee Addict Survive Yom Kippur?
Pills, suppositories and other quasi-medical treatment to ease the Yom Kippur fast.
Pills, suppositories and other quasi-medical treatment to ease the Yom Kippur fast.
By the Numbers
16 Facts About the “10 Days of Repentance”
Learn about the auspicious days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Learn about the auspicious days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
20 Moving Entries From Rebbetzin Chana's Diary
A rich and descriptive Yiddish writer, she records many events from the struggle to maintain Judaism in the Soviet Union, and the difficulty she endured during her husband’s arrest and subsequent exile.
A rich and descriptive Yiddish writer, she records many events from the struggle to maintain Judaism in the Soviet Union, and the difficulty she endured during her husband’s arrest and subsequent exile.
Four Stories to Help You Judge More Favorably
Judging ourselves in a favorable way comes naturally; it is extending the benefit of the doubt to others that is a challenge.
Judging ourselves in a favorable way comes naturally; it is extending the benefit of the doubt to others that is a challenge.
Hebrew Word of the Week
Jewish News
Video
What Is Yom Kippur?
What is Yom Kippur all about? Unpack layers of meaning embedded in the requirement that we neither eat nor drink for the duration of this most holy and solemn of days.
What is Yom Kippur all about? Unpack layers of meaning embedded in the requirement that we neither eat nor drink for the duration of this most holy and solemn of days.
The Rebbe’s Yizkor Speech
The unity of all Jews derives from the fact that every Jewish soul is “an actual part of G-d Above.” Therefore, “Jewish unity” is not limited to Jews who are alive, but includes those who have passed on, as well.
The unity of all Jews derives from the fact that every Jewish soul is “an actual part of G-d Above.” Therefore, “Jewish unity” is not limited to Jews who are alive, but includes those who have passed on, as well.
Audio
Songs of Awe
Beautiful Chabad melodies for the High Holidays, sung by chazan Aryeh Leib Hurwitz, and piano by Sholom Lieberman.
Beautiful Chabad melodies for the High Holidays, sung by chazan Aryeh Leib Hurwitz, and piano by Sholom Lieberman.
Parshah
Find Yourself
Initially, the connection between G‑d and the Jewish people was a contractual one. But then the unexpected happened.
Initially, the connection between G‑d and the Jewish people was a contractual one. But then the unexpected happened.
Do not judge on your own, for there is none qualified to judge alone, only the One
— Ethics of the Fathers 4:8
Print Magazine
Blind faith cannot grasp Truth, because it does not grasp anything at all.
Intellect cannot grasp Truth, because intellect is finite and Truth is infinite.
Only the eye of the soul, its inner wisdom, can grasp Truth and know it as she knows her own self.
For she is Truth.
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