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Pinchas
The Three Weeks
What Are the Three Weeks?
A summary of the laws and customs that pertain to the Three Weeks mourning period for the Holy Temples—17 Tammuz through 9 Av.
A summary of the laws and customs that pertain to the Three Weeks mourning period for the Holy Temples—17 Tammuz through 9 Av.
Messiah & the Third Temple
In the 25th year of the Babylonian exile, G‑d showed a vision of the future Temple to the prophet Ezekiel . . .
In the 25th year of the Babylonian exile, G‑d showed a vision of the future Temple to the prophet Ezekiel . . .
Real Life
What I Think About When I’m Afraid of the Dark
I can hear a thief fiddling with the lock, a serial murderer climbing through the window . . .
I can hear a thief fiddling with the lock, a serial murderer climbing through the window . . .
How a Portuguese King Found Solace in the Psalms of His Ancestors
What, if any, possible knowledge of their Jewish heritage or ancestors was transmitted to them? What did they know about being Jews, and did this have anything to do with choosing Jewish wives, or was that simply a “coincidence”?
What, if any, possible knowledge of their Jewish heritage or ancestors was transmitted to them? What did they know about being Jews, and did this have anything to do with choosing Jewish wives, or was that simply a “coincidence”?
Story
The Miser Who Built the Mikvah
“The community is too poor, and cannot shoulder the financial burden of this endeavor. And as for the local gevir, it is a waste of time even to approach him . . .”
“The community is too poor, and cannot shoulder the financial burden of this endeavor. And as for the local gevir, it is a waste of time even to approach him . . .”
Parshah
Who Makes Your Choices?
On which choices will we focus? The “big” ones, over which we have no control, or the “small” ones, which are entirely in our hands?
On which choices will we focus? The “big” ones, over which we have no control, or the “small” ones, which are entirely in our hands?
Pinchas (Three Weeks Period) Haftarah Companion
“Jeremiah was a descendant of one who had a rotten past but later mended her ways. It was fitting for him rebuke the Jews, who came from good descent gone in rotten ways.”
“Jeremiah was a descendant of one who had a rotten past but later mended her ways. It was fitting for him rebuke the Jews, who came from good descent gone in rotten ways.”
Lifestyle
Jewish News
Teens and Mentors From Bangkok to Brazil at Poconos Retreat
“It gave me my voice. It helped me evolve as a person,” says 18-year-old Rachel Wilkes about the Chabad teen network. “It showed me that I can be who I want to be.”
“It gave me my voice. It helped me evolve as a person,” says 18-year-old Rachel Wilkes about the Chabad teen network. “It showed me that I can be who I want to be.”
Belated Bar Mitzvahs for Five College Students in Vienna
Joined by their families from Switzerland, Germany, Hungary and Ukraine—and their friends and fraternity brothers from around the world.
Joined by their families from Switzerland, Germany, Hungary and Ukraine—and their friends and fraternity brothers from around the world.
Rabbi Elazar of Bartosa would say: Give Him what is His, for you, and whatever is yours, are His. As David says (I Chronicles 29:14): "For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we give to You..."
— Ethics of the Fathers 3:7
Print Magazine
In the Hebrew month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah, a voice inside whispers that it’s time to return home.
Some return, even from the most distant places. Some want to return, but cannot overcome their ways.
So the voice inside whispers, “I know you want to return. I appreciate that.”
Some more return. Some tr...
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