Please partner with us.
Join our Yom Kippur appeal
Thank you:
<> joined
ב"ה

Bo

By the Numbers
13 Facts You Should Know About the Ten Plagues

A key part of the Exodus story—they demonstrated G-d’s power and delivered justice to Egypt.
10 Questions: Take the Ruth Quiz

Test Your Knowledge of This Celebrated Convert
Your Questions
Can a DNA Test Determine Jewish Status?

Tribal affiliation follows the direct paternal line, while the question of Jewishness follows the maternal line. Does this mean that genetic testing is a valid way of ascertaining whether one is Jewish or a kohen?
Was the Holocaust a Punishment from G‑d?

Why can we say that biblical tragedies were punishments, yet contemporary ones are “the mysterious way of G-d”? Have today’s rabbis changed their perception of G-d to fit what’s politically correct?
Podcasts
Divine Firefighting & Salty Sadducees

Your Jewish Week: Bo
Diet Danger

Speaking from personal experience, dietician Miriam Shurpin tells of the dangers of poor body image and the "diet culture," and how she learned to embrace her body through Chassidic teachings.
How Alike Should We Be?

Join us for an insightful conversation with Rabbi Dr. Yosef Shagalow, a Minneapolis-based psychologist with extensive experience in helping couples in distress, and a Chabad emissary in St. Louis, Minnesota. Rabbi Dr. Shagalow will share his valuable knowledge on approaching dating with a healthy perspective.
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Baking

Learn when you must separate challah and how to bake parve bread in a meat or dairy oven.
Parshah
Why Did the Jews Smear Blood on their Lintels?

Did G-d need a marker to protect the Jews during the Plague of the Firstborn?
Know Who You Are

We are a truly free people. We must never feel that we need to be like anyone else.
Video
Making Ink From Grass!

The Rebbe shares a touching anecdote about his mother's devotion to Torah.
A single action is better than a thousand groans
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch (1860-1920)
Print Magazine

On Yom Kippur, we are all in recovery.

Recovery of our true selves.

Look beneath the stormy waves of life, beyond the failures, the guilt, and the pride.

Beneath the surface dwells a calm, pure soul that only desires to fulfill the divine purpose for which it came to this place. To run to do a mitzvah. To absorb t...

New on Chabad.org