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Your Questions
Why Is Jewishness Matrilineal?
The Code of Jewish Law states that a child of a Jewish mother is Jewish, regardless of the father’s lineage.
The Code of Jewish Law states that a child of a Jewish mother is Jewish, regardless of the father’s lineage.
Why Do Mourners Tear Their Garments?
Tearing garments upon the death of a close relative, "keriah" in Hebrew, dates back to biblical times.
Tearing garments upon the death of a close relative, "keriah" in Hebrew, dates back to biblical times.
What Is the Amidah?
The sages established that the Amidah be said three times daily, and they composed words of praise and requests to be said at those times.
The sages established that the Amidah be said three times daily, and they composed words of praise and requests to be said at those times.
Parshah
What We Learn From Eliezer’s Words
Why are so many complex laws in the Torah written in so few words?
Why are so many complex laws in the Torah written in so few words?
The Strangest Shidduch
"Opposites attract" -- but how opposite can happily married spouses be? Take Isaac and Rebecca. Or G‑d and our world
"Opposites attract" -- but how opposite can happily married spouses be? Take Isaac and Rebecca. Or G‑d and our world
Story
The Muddy Path to Paradise
The suddenness of the rebbe’s appearance in his city caught the chassid, along with his wide-open mansion, off guard. Left with no choice, he reluctantly surrendered his house so that it could serve as the rebbe’s accommodation.
The suddenness of the rebbe’s appearance in his city caught the chassid, along with his wide-open mansion, off guard. Left with no choice, he reluctantly surrendered his house so that it could serve as the rebbe’s accommodation.
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Jewish News
A Journalist’s Insights Into Chabad From Record-Breaking U.S. Tour
Gil Hoffman talks Israel, outreach and Jewish life.
Gil Hoffman talks Israel, outreach and Jewish life.
I heard from my masters, that if an angel were to stand in the presence of a gathering of ten Jews... such a boundless and infinite terror and dread would then befall him on account of the Divine Presence that abides over them, that he would become utterly nullified.
— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (Tanya IV:23)
Print Magazine
All of Torah is wrapped up in these leather straps and boxes with their finely written parchment scrolls.
Because this is the essence of every mitzvah:
To bind your heart, your mind and your action together into a single wholeness, wrapped up inextricably with the One who spoke and the world came into being.
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