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Vaetchanan
Parshah
Voices
Mourning What Is Missing
Why do the Jewish people continue to mourn and weep year after year? Isn't there such a thing as live and let go? Be happy with the moment and forget the past?
Why do the Jewish people continue to mourn and weep year after year? Isn't there such a thing as live and let go? Be happy with the moment and forget the past?
Finding Faith Through Illness and Tragedy
A painful struggle with illness was certainly not on Ester’s agenda. Neither was the almost unimaginable tragedy that followed in its wake. Why was G‑d giving her these tests? Where would she find the faith to withstand them?
A painful struggle with illness was certainly not on Ester’s agenda. Neither was the almost unimaginable tragedy that followed in its wake. Why was G‑d giving her these tests? Where would she find the faith to withstand them?
The Anonymous Man's Last Act Before He Was Killed
You won’t find much written about him anywhere. That’s who he was. A great man who walked among us, until, in one moment, he sanctified G-d’s name.
You won’t find much written about him anywhere. That’s who he was. A great man who walked among us, until, in one moment, he sanctified G-d’s name.
Letters of Light
By the Numbers
What Are Kinot?
Kinot are Hebrew poetic compositions recited on the fast of Tisha B’Av, lamenting the destruction of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem.
Kinot are Hebrew poetic compositions recited on the fast of Tisha B’Av, lamenting the destruction of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem.
10 Questions: Take the “Three Weeks” Quiz
During this period we mourn the past and nurture hope for the future.
During this period we mourn the past and nurture hope for the future.
On the Calendar
Tonight Is the Fast of 9 Av
Why do we mourn on Tisha b'Av? A historical overview and a digest of the day's laws.
Why do we mourn on Tisha b'Av? A historical overview and a digest of the day's laws.
Your Questions
The Freeman Files
Money is fire: it can destroy and annihilate, or illuminate and warm, depending on how it is used
— Chassidic master Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk
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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