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Kedoshim

Hebrew Word of the Week
What Can the Hebrew Word for “Reminders” Teach You?

The Freeman Files
Quantum Talmud

Quantum logic helps explain a halachic ruling of Maimonides, a puzzling story of the Talmud, a Midrash about the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and a rabbinic teaching about the relationship between Torah and existence.
By the Numbers
Some Facts About the Holocaust for Those Just Learning

Between the years 1938 and 1945 the German Nazis and their willing collaborators murdered 6 million Jews and millions of others.
10 Questions: Take the Kotel Quiz

What do you know about this nucleus of prayer for all Jews?
Your Questions
Why a Funeral for Burned Torah Scrolls?

The respect we give to our human dead is akin to the respect we give to a destroyed Torah scroll.
On Campus
Mothering Jewish Students in the Shadow of the Hateful Encampments

Chabad at the University of Chicago stands strong in challenging times.
12 Tips for Jewish Public School Parents in Today's Climate

How to fortify your children against antagonism in educational settings.
Parshah
Soul Sister

I was feeling great before she walked into the room. She came in, our eyes met, and my joie de vivre started to deflate . . .
Car Therapy

Sometimes we mistakenly believe that negative behavior or language is only problematic when it hurts someone else. We think that we have a license to behave as we wish, as long as we keep it to ourselves.
Let your home be a meeting place for the wise; sit in the dust of their feet, and drink thirstily of their words
— Ethics of the Fathers 1:4
Print Magazine

Intellect is inadequate because not all things can be explained. Intellect needs faith.

Faith is impotent because it remains forever obscure. Faith needs intellect.

But they are opposites, as contradictory as yes and no:
Faith accepts; Intellect questions.
Faith surrenders; Intellect struggles.

Miraculously, ther...

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