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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 Jacob was greatly afraid, and he was distressed" (Genesis 32:8) - He was afraid that he might be killed, and distressed that he might kill.
— Midrash Rabbah
Print Magazine
We don’t say a person “will be going to heaven.”
We say this person is “a child of the world to come.”
Heaven is not just somewhere you go.
It is something you carry with you.
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