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Shelach

By the Numbers
13 Facts About the Mitzvah to Visit the Sick

Let’s take a step back and learn 13 facts about this building block of Jewish life known as bikur cholim.
Women
Infertility Won’t Stop Me From Bringing Life to the World

Granted, the first woman was the mother of all life because from her have eventually come all living beings, but where does that leave the rest of us?
Parshah
Scouting a New Path

The sending of the spies represented the critically important ability of the Jewish people to decide that they wanted to enter the land, not because of a commandment alone, but because their own will and desire directed them to do so.
Shelach Parshah Quiz

Take this quiz to see how well you know the parshah of Shelach.
Your Questions
Saying Psalms According to Your (Loved One's) Age

Do not underestimate the power and benefit of reciting psalms in general and, more specifically, the psalm corresponding to your age.
What Is Zion?

I keep encountering quotes from the Bible about Zion, but I can’t work it out. Is Zion a specific mountain? So who is the “daughter of Zion”?
Video
A Chinese Girl's Journey to Judaism

In conversation with Elisheva Martinetti and Sofya Tamarkin. Elisheva was born in North-East China, studied in Israel and Australia before converting to Judaism, and now teaches Chassidic thought in London. Sofya is a writer who was born in the Soviet Union and discovered Elisheva on one of her many world travels. Together, they talk about their personal growth and the impact of their story.
Video: Rebbe and Rebbetzin Arrive in America
This short documentary includes first hand accounts from those who were actually present at the Rebbe and Rebbetzin's arrival on American soil. Interviewees: Rabbis Yitzchak Groner, Leibel Posner, Dovid Edelman, and Hershel Fogelman.
Story
The Burned Store and a Match Made in Heaven

The Rebbe suggested that since we are financially secure, we should close our store on Shabbat and that G‑d will then send our daughter her bashert...
Melacha of the Week
Me’amer - Gathering

Binding or gathering produce, the av melachah of ma’amer, is forbidden on Shabbat.
Essay
Nosh on This: Kosher Food Boosts the Body and Soul

The kosher status of the food we eat has a tremendous impact on our spiritual sensitivity.
Lifestyle
Toasty Roasted Cauliflower

For the land into which you are entering, to inherit it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you are coming, that you sow your seed and water it with your feet like a vegetable garden. The land into which you are crossing to inherit is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water of the rain of the heavens. A land which the L-rd your G-d seeks; constantly the eyes of the L-rd your G-d are on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
— Deuteronomy 11:10-12
Print Magazine

More than 1,700 years in advance, the author of the Zohar predicted a revolution of science and technology around the year 1840. There he describes the fountains of wisdom bursting forth from the ground and flooding the earth—all in preparation for an era when the world shall be filled with wisdom and knowledge of the One...