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Vayishlach 5762 - November 30, 2001
Parshah
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Jacob's confrontation with Esau, the rape of Dinah, Reuben's sin, the eight primordial kings of Edom -- and what it all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today
Jacob's confrontation with Esau, the rape of Dinah, Reuben's sin, the eight primordial kings of Edom -- and what it all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today
Parenting
It Is His Turn
This assuredness of his rightness, of his necessity, of his essentiality, of his indispensability, of his inevitability, of his potential and his destiny
This assuredness of his rightness, of his necessity, of his essentiality, of his indispensability, of his inevitability, of his potential and his destiny
Story
The Mystery of the Second Suit
"Go back to your shop," advised the Rebbe. "Remove all the stitches in this garment, and reassemble it exactly how you sewed it before"
"Go back to your shop," advised the Rebbe. "Remove all the stitches in this garment, and reassemble it exactly how you sewed it before"
What Is a Soul (Neshamah)?
A soul is Divine energy, a little piece of G-d within you. Your inner identity, your raison d'être
A soul is Divine energy, a little piece of G-d within you. Your inner identity, your raison d'être
“And I will lead on slowly . . . until I come to my lord to Seir” (Genesis 33:14). Said Rabbi Abbahu: We have searched the entire Scriptures and did not find that Jacob ever went to Esau to the mountain of Seir. Is it possible that Jacob, the truthful, should deceive him? But when would he come to him? In the Messianic Era, when “the saviors shall ascend Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau.”
— Midrash Rabbah
Print Magazine
Anxieties, worries, feelings of inadequacy and failure—all these smother and cripple the soul from doing its job.
You need to find the appropriate time to deal with them. But don’t carry them around the whole day.
During the day, you are Adam and Eve before they tasted the fruit of good and evil.
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