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By the Numbers
10 Facts About the Tenth of Tevet
Refresh your memory and learn something new about the fast of 10 Tevet with this interesting compilation.
Refresh your memory and learn something new about the fast of 10 Tevet with this interesting compilation.
Your Questions
How Was Jacob Embalmed? Is It Against Torah?
"Joseph commanded ... to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel."
"Joseph commanded ... to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel."
Parshah
For Darkness to Become a Candle
How could Yaakov's best years have been those that he spent in Egypt, a place of impurity and spiritual darkness?
How could Yaakov's best years have been those that he spent in Egypt, a place of impurity and spiritual darkness?
Reflections
When I Am Besieged With Insecurity . . .
We don’t do anything wrong, but we worry, we’re afraid, we’re anxious—and that in itself holds us prisoner and holds us back. What’s our mission?
We don’t do anything wrong, but we worry, we’re afraid, we’re anxious—and that in itself holds us prisoner and holds us back. What’s our mission?
Lightening the Load: How a Household Chore Became More Inspiring
How did I make my family feel good, feel special, feel singularly loved by me, I thought?
How did I make my family feel good, feel special, feel singularly loved by me, I thought?
Video
Seven Habits for a Happier Life
When you're happy, you'll be kinder to the people around you, and you'll bring more light into the world. Practise these tools to attain a happier life.
When you're happy, you'll be kinder to the people around you, and you'll bring more light into the world. Practise these tools to attain a happier life.
Shabbat Law of the Week
Boneh - Building
Assembling and building a permanent structure is forbidden on Shabbat, and is the av melachah of Boneh.
Assembling and building a permanent structure is forbidden on Shabbat, and is the av melachah of Boneh.
Lifestyle
There are four types of temperaments. One who is easily angered and easily appeased--his virtue cancels his flaw. One whom it is difficult to anger and difficult to appease--his flaw cancels his virtue. One whom it is difficult to anger and is easily appeased, is a chassid. One who is easily angered and is difficult to appease, is wicked.
— Ethics of the Fathers 5:11
Print Magazine
It all began with an unbounded light
that filled all and left no room for a world to be.
Then that light was withheld
so that the world might be created in the resulting void.
Then the world was created,
with the purpose of returning to that original state of light
—yet to remain a world.
That is something greater ...
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