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10 Ways to Celebrate 10 Shevat
Looking for ways to channel this day’s inspiration into your life? Here are our suggestions.
Looking for ways to channel this day’s inspiration into your life? Here are our suggestions.
Six Juicy Russian Chassidic Expressions
A sample of local peasant culture can be found in certain phrases, often punchlines of poignant tales told by the Rebbes and chassidim, which have become part of everyday parlance.
A sample of local peasant culture can be found in certain phrases, often punchlines of poignant tales told by the Rebbes and chassidim, which have become part of everyday parlance.
12 Things Children Wish Their Parents Knew
Please remember how difficult it is to change. Help me work on one thing at a time. I can’t change all my faults at once.
Please remember how difficult it is to change. Help me work on one thing at a time. I can’t change all my faults at once.
12 Questions: Take the Mezuzah Quiz
See how well you know the laws and customs of the great mitzvah of Mezuzah!
See how well you know the laws and customs of the great mitzvah of Mezuzah!
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What in the World Am I Doing Here?
Understanding the concept of "dira betachtonim," G-d asking us to turn our world into a home for Him.
Understanding the concept of "dira betachtonim," G-d asking us to turn our world into a home for Him.
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Under the Darkness
When you’re able to “see” another person and revel in the positivity and unity it brings, it will automatically make you better, as well.
When you’re able to “see” another person and revel in the positivity and unity it brings, it will automatically make you better, as well.
In the First Place
Just as there are first fruits of the soil, there are also first deeds and first dreams. Here as well, people become more sophisticated as they mature, as do their aspirations and dreams. Nevertheless, there is a special significance to one’s first dreams.
Just as there are first fruits of the soil, there are also first deeds and first dreams. Here as well, people become more sophisticated as they mature, as do their aspirations and dreams. Nevertheless, there is a special significance to one’s first dreams.
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What Is the Secret of Chabad?
Professor Scholem was curious to know what turned an educated young man towards tradition. David’s answer was straightforward: “I discovered the Book of Tanya. I found Chabad.”
Professor Scholem was curious to know what turned an educated young man towards tradition. David’s answer was straightforward: “I discovered the Book of Tanya. I found Chabad.”
I Thought I Made the Mistake of My Life. Then I Went Swimming
Swimming daily meant I was no longer invisible—that there were witnesses to my life, however small it was. If I didn’t show up, there were women who noticed and would call to find out how I was. People cared, more than I cared for myself. I owed it to them to make an effort.
Swimming daily meant I was no longer invisible—that there were witnesses to my life, however small it was. If I didn’t show up, there were women who noticed and would call to find out how I was. People cared, more than I cared for myself. I owed it to them to make an effort.
It is said "A person should always be artful in piety" (Talmud, Brachot 17a). The artfulness lies in seeing that his piety not be noticed at all. We know that a number of the early chassidim concealed their true selves, and when discovered were sincerely distressed.
— Hayom Yom, Tishrei 8
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This is my G‑d, and I will praise Him, the G‑d of my father, and I will exalt him.
Exodus 15:2
When He is only the G‑d of your father, He remains exalted and beyond your world. When you make Him your own G‑d, then you can truly praise Him with your heart.
Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz (16th century)
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