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Vayigash
Essay
The Tzaddik and the Dragon of Darkness II
You found a cavern amidst the geothermal stream. It was warm. It was good. In some distant, fleeting way, it reminded you of the bliss of your garden above. Oh, how you yearned to return there.
You found a cavern amidst the geothermal stream. It was warm. It was good. In some distant, fleeting way, it reminded you of the bliss of your garden above. Oh, how you yearned to return there.
By the Numbers
7 Lessons From Travel You Can Apply to Daily Life
When we’re away, we are more willing to entertain different perspectives. We are friendlier, less judgmental and more open-minded.
When we’re away, we are more willing to entertain different perspectives. We are friendlier, less judgmental and more open-minded.
Your Questions
Why Celebrate a Baby Girl With a Shabbat Kiddush?
There is an old custom that, after a baby girl is born, the parents host a kiddush reception when people bestow blessings on the child.
There is an old custom that, after a baby girl is born, the parents host a kiddush reception when people bestow blessings on the child.
Chanukah News
Parshah
Illuminating the Darkest Moments of Your Life
Often, the context we assign to experiences is really a projection of how we view ourselves.
Often, the context we assign to experiences is really a projection of how we view ourselves.
Joseph's Message
It was not enough for Jacob to discover that Joseph was still alive physically. He needed to hear that he was also alive spiritually.
It was not enough for Jacob to discover that Joseph was still alive physically. He needed to hear that he was also alive spiritually.
For Your Vayigash Study Group (PDF)
This weekly study packet is part of theJewishwoman.org “Be a Leader” initiative. Print it out and learn it with your study group.
This weekly study packet is part of theJewishwoman.org “Be a Leader” initiative. Print it out and learn it with your study group.
Story
He Cheated the Angel of Death
“I can’t give the evil inclination such a victory,” said Reb Shmaya, “so everyone leave me alone and let me die in peace.”
“I can’t give the evil inclination such a victory,” said Reb Shmaya, “so everyone leave me alone and let me die in peace.”
Video
One Small Candle; One Giant Light for Mankind
On Chanukah, Jewish children increase in spiritual light, adding an additional candle in the menorah, and inspiring their neighbors to join in illuminating the world.
On Chanukah, Jewish children increase in spiritual light, adding an additional candle in the menorah, and inspiring their neighbors to join in illuminating the world.
Lifestyle
“Pharaoh commanded to all his people: Every son that is born shall be cast into the River” (Exodus 1:22). The Nile was the mainstay of the Egyptian economy and its most venerated god. Therein lay the deeper—still relevant—significance of Pharaoh’s decree: Today, too, Jewish survival depends on our ability to resist the dictum that children must be submerged within an educational system whose focus and goal is the attainment of a “career” and “economic success”.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Print Magazine
The Rebbe describes the following as a core teaching of the Baal Shem Tov:
Not only are the pirouettes of a leaf as it falls off a tree,
the quivering of a blade of grass in the wind,
and all the details of the world around you
all brought into being, given life and directed every moment from Above—
but beyond ...
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