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Matot-Massei
By the Numbers
9 Simple Ways to Perform Acts of Kindness
What’s special about an act of kindness is that it can be done anywhere, anytime, by anyone. It is the ultimate equalizer.
What’s special about an act of kindness is that it can be done anywhere, anytime, by anyone. It is the ultimate equalizer.
Why Is Social Media so Addictive?
Recognition hunger, like many worldly desires and addictions, can never be satisfied.
Recognition hunger, like many worldly desires and addictions, can never be satisfied.
Your Questions
Why Is Moshiach called a Metzora (Leper)?
One who was afflicted with the malady was considered impure and had to undergo a purification process.
One who was afflicted with the malady was considered impure and had to undergo a purification process.
Who Was Methuselah?
Methuselah was one of the Seven Shepherds, i.e. spiritual leaders of their respective eras.
Methuselah was one of the Seven Shepherds, i.e. spiritual leaders of their respective eras.
Parshah
The Eastern Colonists
Why the dramatic shift in Moses' view on the Jewish settlement of the eastern territories? If the Reubenites' and Gadites' petition initially struck him as reminiscent of the sin of the Spies, what convinced him to endorse their plan and even expand on it?
Why the dramatic shift in Moses' view on the Jewish settlement of the eastern territories? If the Reubenites' and Gadites' petition initially struck him as reminiscent of the sin of the Spies, what convinced him to endorse their plan and even expand on it?
Video
Operation Exodus for Iranian Jewish Children
The untold story of Chabad’s efforts to save eighteen hundred Jewish children during the height of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
The untold story of Chabad’s efforts to save eighteen hundred Jewish children during the height of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
Do the Jews Deserve the Land of Israel?
The Land of Israel is Heaven’s perfectly suitable gift suited for the Jewish people. By the same token, it is beyond what the Jews can ever deserve.
The Land of Israel is Heaven’s perfectly suitable gift suited for the Jewish people. By the same token, it is beyond what the Jews can ever deserve.
Story
The Rabbi's Forgotten Question
"As soon as I entered the Rebbe’s room and looked at him, the question slipped my mind; it simply disappeared."
"As soon as I entered the Rebbe’s room and looked at him, the question slipped my mind; it simply disappeared."
Lifestyle
Jaffa
The main street of Jerusalem — Jaffa Road — was named after this “little port town” on the Mediterranean coast!
The main street of Jerusalem — Jaffa Road — was named after this “little port town” on the Mediterranean coast!
If you begin a good deed, finish it, for a mitzvah is credited to the one who concludes the task
— Talmud, Sotah 13b
Print Magazine
Yom Kippur is a day of forgiveness for those who return.
But then, every day is a day of forgiveness for those who return.
Yet Yom Kippur is an entirely different story.
Because on any other day when a soul returns, her misdeeds are discarded.
On Yom Kippur, when a soul returns, she is held in tight embrace.
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