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By the Numbers
Extreme Judaism! 12 Facts About Jewish Life in the Polar Regions
While there isn’t a synagogue at the North Pole (yet!), there has been, and there still is, a Jewish presence not far from the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.
While there isn’t a synagogue at the North Pole (yet!), there has been, and there still is, a Jewish presence not far from the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.
Your Questions
Why Do We Write Hebrew from Right to Left?
Learn the answer to this simple-seeming question in the light of history, Jewish law, and kabbalah.
Learn the answer to this simple-seeming question in the light of history, Jewish law, and kabbalah.
Quiz
Freeman Files
What Is a Yetzer Hara and the Secret of Getting Rid of It?
The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional responses of the beast within you.
The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional responses of the beast within you.
Halachah for Life
What You Need To Know About Reading the Torah Scroll
When must mistakes be corrected? How should one proceed when an error is discovered in the Torah scroll?
When must mistakes be corrected? How should one proceed when an error is discovered in the Torah scroll?
Voices
The Financial Strategy Your Economics Professor Never Taught You
The deeper I went into the Torah’s approach to giving, the more I realized how precise that financial framework is.
The deeper I went into the Torah’s approach to giving, the more I realized how precise that financial framework is.
Parshah
How to Stop Being Paralyzed by Your Problems
What is the difference between a threat and a challenge?
What is the difference between a threat and a challenge?
History
Lifestyle
Mesirut nefesh -- Hebrew term for self abnegation -- means both "giving of life" and "giving of will." Self abnegation is not just the willingness to die for one's beliefs; it is the way in which one lives for them. It is the willingness to sacrifice one's "self" -- one's desires, one's preconceptions, one's most basic inclinations.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Print Magazine
Afterlife is a very rational, natural consequence of the order of things.
After all, nothing is ever lost—even the body only transforms into earth. But nothing is lost.
So too, the person you are is never lost. That person—that soul—only returns to its origin.
If your soul became acutely attached to the material worl...
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