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Honoring Rabbi Lord Sacks
Learn From Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Subscribe to a weekly email to mark the first anniversary of his passing and celebrate a life of achievement.
Subscribe to a weekly email to mark the first anniversary of his passing and celebrate a life of achievement.
By the Numbers
8 Once-in-a-Generation Jewish Rituals
Some mitzvahs are done daily, weekly, or annually. But there are some that happen so seldom that many of us are lucky if we experience them even once or twice over the course of our lives.
Some mitzvahs are done daily, weekly, or annually. But there are some that happen so seldom that many of us are lucky if we experience them even once or twice over the course of our lives.
10 Questions: Take the Jewish Funeral Quiz
Accompanying the deceased to his or her final resting place is a tremendous mitzvah and displays great respect. See how much you know about Jewish funerals with this quiz.
Accompanying the deceased to his or her final resting place is a tremendous mitzvah and displays great respect. See how much you know about Jewish funerals with this quiz.
Learning Center
Why Are Jews Buried in White Linen Shrouds?
This dates back two millennia to the times of Rabban Gamliel the Elder in the early 1st century.
This dates back two millennia to the times of Rabban Gamliel the Elder in the early 1st century.
Parshah
Do You Own What You Have?
Abraham appreciated a simple yet sometimes difficult truth: if you want to make something truly yours, you must pay for it.
Abraham appreciated a simple yet sometimes difficult truth: if you want to make something truly yours, you must pay for it.
What Was Double About Me’arat Hamachpelah?
The Rebbe provides an interpretation of Rashi’s commentary that overturns nearly a thousand years of presumed understanding.
The Rebbe provides an interpretation of Rashi’s commentary that overturns nearly a thousand years of presumed understanding.
How to Live Life
All of her years were equal, parallel, identical, even-steven for good? Is this possible?
All of her years were equal, parallel, identical, even-steven for good? Is this possible?
Perspective
A Dollar, a Story, and the (Re)union of Eliezer and Devorah
The divine providence found in an engagement, a breakup, and a reunion years later in Jerusalem.
The divine providence found in an engagement, a breakup, and a reunion years later in Jerusalem.
Faith During Miscarriage
I meditate on the idea that my baby is in a loving, nurturing and beautiful place. I imagine that every soul before birth chooses an earthly mother as a vehicle to this world. I am honored to have been part of my son’s journey.
I meditate on the idea that my baby is in a loving, nurturing and beautiful place. I imagine that every soul before birth chooses an earthly mother as a vehicle to this world. I am honored to have been part of my son’s journey.
Counterpressure: What Is the Purpose of All My Struggles?
The soul is not here for itself, but to refine and elevate the animal soul.
The soul is not here for itself, but to refine and elevate the animal soul.
Ordinary Kids Doing Extraordinary Things
It provides me with strength and happiness that the future will be bright because our children are making the world a better place.
It provides me with strength and happiness that the future will be bright because our children are making the world a better place.
The three loves -- love of G-d, love of Torah and love of one's fellow -- are one. One cannot differentiate between them, for they are of a single essence... And since they are of a single essence, each one embodies all three.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Print Magazine
Know as clear as day and contemplate this deeply, that He who emanates all into being is He who rules and judges this world. In the heavens above and on the earth below, there is nothing else. (Deut. 4:39)
The same G‑d who transcends all time and space is the same G‑d manifest in all the forces and fields of physics.
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