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Shemini

Question
Why Is the Day After the Holiday Called Isru Chag?

The name is based on the verse in Psalms, “Bind [the] festival [offering] with cords to the corners of the altar.”
What Is a "Schvitz"?

“On Yom Kippur, the synagogue was so stuffy, I was schvitzing buckets.”
Parshah
The Mysterious Death of Nadab and Abihu

The tragic death of Aaron’s two elder sons, Nadav and Avihu; the soul as a striving and as a settling, life as a cycle and as a spiral.
5 Powerful Insights From the Rebbe - Shemini

Enjoy four short thoughts and a video adapted from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Parshat Shemini.
Women
A Little Prayer for You, My Husband

“Bring your husband to the hospital,” the doctor said after I told him Adam was having trouble walking because his feet were numb.
Hungry? Or Is That the Soul That’s Grumbling?

But if I am trying to feed my hungry soul, no amount of food will help.
Video
The Ultimate Test of Faith

Something Spiritual on Parshat Shemini
Introduction to Learning Pirkei Avot

Why the tractate in the Mishnah on ethics is called Avot or “Fathers”. Learn the distinction between law and beyond the law, and how this can be applied practically.
Focus on Growth

On the sixteenth of Nissan, the second day of Passover, we begin counting down the days until the festival of Shavuos, a practice with origins in the Jewish people’s redemption from slavery. As soon they left Egypt, the Jews began to eagerly count down the days until G-d would give them the Torah at Sinai.
Story
Hidden and Revealed

The holy beggar's face was transformed. His eyes began to glow with a divine light, and his coarse features assumed a sublime grace...
Lifestyle
There is nothing that is more whole than a broken heart
— Chassidic saying
Print Magazine

Yesterday, you were inspired.
Today, that is all gone.
And so, you are depressed.

But this is the way the system works: Everything begins with inspiration.
Then the inspiration steps aside
—to make room for you to do something with it.

For fire to become deeds.

Because inspiration without action is like a flame wit...