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Vayechi
Your Questions
Why Did Non-Kosher Animals Become Jewish Names?
This seems strange, since the sages place great significance on a person’s name.
This seems strange, since the sages place great significance on a person’s name.
10 Tevet
What I Secretly Fear About the Coming of Moshiach
Moshiach is not only a solution for our pain in this life. If that’s what I believe, then why would I risk upheaval for the sake of something that doesn’t affect me in this moment?
Moshiach is not only a solution for our pain in this life. If that’s what I believe, then why would I risk upheaval for the sake of something that doesn’t affect me in this moment?
Keeping the Doors of Communication Open With Your Children and With G-d
In order for me to transmit anything to my children, I need communication. In order to maintain a loving relationship, I need understanding. That means for me, at least, I must always make it clear that the doors of language remain wide open.
In order for me to transmit anything to my children, I need communication. In order to maintain a loving relationship, I need understanding. That means for me, at least, I must always make it clear that the doors of language remain wide open.
Rising Above Challenges
Moving Forward: Releasing the Chokehold of the Past
Allowing yourself to step into a new and healthy reality from a traumatic past is a bit like zip-lining: If you don’t jump off the platform with trust that on the other side of the dense foliage before you there is another platform, then you will never behold the wondrous sights in between.
Allowing yourself to step into a new and healthy reality from a traumatic past is a bit like zip-lining: If you don’t jump off the platform with trust that on the other side of the dense foliage before you there is another platform, then you will never behold the wondrous sights in between.
Parshah
The Secret
Our sages tell us that "Jacob wished to reveal to his sons the end of days, whereupon the divine presence departed from him." Why, indeed, would Jacob wish to do such a thing? If the children of Israel had been told that the date of Moshiach's coming is thousands of years in the future, would this not have had a most adverse effect on their morale?
Our sages tell us that "Jacob wished to reveal to his sons the end of days, whereupon the divine presence departed from him." Why, indeed, would Jacob wish to do such a thing? If the children of Israel had been told that the date of Moshiach's coming is thousands of years in the future, would this not have had a most adverse effect on their morale?
Story
The Story That Was a Prayer
The Rebbe continued speaking, even as the clock ticked closer to midnight.
The Rebbe continued speaking, even as the clock ticked closer to midnight.
Lifestyle
Legally, it is only forbidden to defraud one's fellow. But a chassid must go "beyond the letter of the law" and take care not to delude himself, either.
— Chassidic master Rabbi Bunim of Peshischah
Print Magazine
What will be in the next moment is not in this one now.
It does not yet exist.
It has yet to be created.
When its time comes, then it will be created by the Creator of all things out of nowhere, emerging from the void.
There is only one thing that exists at this moment: That in which you are meant to be engaged righ...
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