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Your Questions
Can Animals Sense the Paranormal?

From being able to detect certain illnesses to exhibiting strange behaviors days before an earthquake, animals exhibit extraordinary senses.
Who Was Ravshakeh, Who Insulted King Hezekiah?

The Talmud states that Ravshakeh was a Jewish apostate, meaning a renegade Jew who had disowned his own religion and people.
By the Numbers
11 Facts About the 17 Tammuz Fast Day

The 17th day of Tammuz will one day morph from sadness to joy and gladness.
13 Powerful Pictures That Illuminate the Arrest and Liberation of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe

An international diplomatic crisis heightened the threat to the Rebbe’s life and helped secure his deliverance.
10 Questions: Take the Tzedakah Quiz

Quiz yourself on this important and special mitzvah!
Parshah
Take the Blame

Why name the parshah after the secondary character?
Alone, but Not Lonely

The Jewish people have been very much alone throughout history, and that hasn’t changed.
Counting Other People’s Money

At each of their stops over their forty-year trek, the people made sure to erect their tents in a modest arrangement. Apparently, it was this exceptionally sensitive quality amongst them that made it impossible for Balaam to harm them.
Personal Experiences
Hearing Voices

When you talk to G‑d, it is prayer, but when G‑d talks to you, you need a psychiatrist.
On Neurological Pain, Suffering and an Indigenous Tribe’s Coming of Age Ceremony

Our suffering is often compounded by our inability to reconcile any purpose for the suffering.
‘Excuse Me, Have You Put on Tefillin Today?’

I love seeing the hand of G‑d in everyday life.
Lifestyle
"One nation will struggle against the other" (Genesis 25:23). Jacob and Esau will never be equal: when one rises the other will fall, and when the other rises, the first will fall.
— Rashi
Print Magazine

Within every love, there is fear: The fear of separation from that which you love.

A child fears separation from her parents, a lover from his beloved, the body fears separation from the soul, and the soul from its Source Above.

So what do you love? Look at your worries and you will know. If you seethe in worry over you...

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