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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.
A key part of the Exodus story—they demonstrated G-d’s power and delivered justice to Egypt.
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?
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
We are a truly free people. We must never feel that we need to be like anyone else.
Video
"And Abraham was old, and come along in days" (Genesis 24:1). A person can grow old by merely passing through his days. But the righteous person accumulates his days and bring them along with him: having realized each day's potential, they are fully possessed by him.
— Zohar
Print Magazine
How can you attain love of an infinite G-d? Through love of your fellow human beings.
As Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa would say, “If people like you, G-d likes you too.”
How did he know?
Because he knew that if people truly like you, it must be that you genuinely like them.
And when you hold genuine love in your heart for ...
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