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By the Numbers
10 Biblical Heroes with Traumatic Childhoods
Many of the Bible’s most famous personalities had difficult childhoods, marked by sibling rivalry, abuse, loss of loved ones, or worse.
Many of the Bible’s most famous personalities had difficult childhoods, marked by sibling rivalry, abuse, loss of loved ones, or worse.
Your Questions
Why Don’t We Invite People to a Brit Milah?
Many have the custom to simply make the time and place known, without inviting anyone in particular to attend. Here's why.
Many have the custom to simply make the time and place known, without inviting anyone in particular to attend. Here's why.
What Does Judaism Tell Us About Abimelech, King of the Philistines?
Abimelech’s treaties with the Patriarchs continued to have aftereffects centuries later. Who was this king, and how did he become so significant?
Abimelech’s treaties with the Patriarchs continued to have aftereffects centuries later. Who was this king, and how did he become so significant?
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Setting Up a Child's Bedroom
y surrounding children with reminders of Torah and mitzvot, we help instill faith and good habits to accompany them throughout life.
y surrounding children with reminders of Torah and mitzvot, we help instill faith and good habits to accompany them throughout life.
Podcast
My 23-Year-Old, Pregnant Daughter Was Gone in a Moment
Nechama Laber devoted her life's mission to teaching and inspiring others through Torah and creativity. Now her work is guided by her daughter's gentle humility and devotion to others.
Nechama Laber devoted her life's mission to teaching and inspiring others through Torah and creativity. Now her work is guided by her daughter's gentle humility and devotion to others.
The Tribe and the Other
What makes righteousness Jewish? Can a person truly love all of humanity? Or does that love, spread too thin, turn into something else?
What makes righteousness Jewish? Can a person truly love all of humanity? Or does that love, spread too thin, turn into something else?
History
Parshah
The Untold Story of Lot and His Daughters
The bulk of rabbinic commentators view Lot’s daughters as women of fine and even noble intentions.
The bulk of rabbinic commentators view Lot’s daughters as women of fine and even noble intentions.
Video
Behind Every Great Jew Is a Great Mother
Sarah, the first Jewish mother, is a shining example of the great power that every woman has over her family and our entire nation. It was Sarah who insisted that Isaac, not Ishmael, continue Abraham’s progeny. It was she who raised Isaac in his formative years, instilling within him the fortitude to stand up to all tests, and to become the second Patriarch of the Jewish People.
Sarah, the first Jewish mother, is a shining example of the great power that every woman has over her family and our entire nation. It was Sarah who insisted that Isaac, not Ishmael, continue Abraham’s progeny. It was she who raised Isaac in his formative years, instilling within him the fortitude to stand up to all tests, and to become the second Patriarch of the Jewish People.
Our sages have said, "Sleep is one sixtieth of death" (Talmud, Berachot 57b). If sleep is a form of death, then death is a form of sleep -- but a temporary withdrawal of vitality for the sake of reawakening to a higher quality of life.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe
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There are those who chase all things of heaven—and find they cannot live.
There are those who chase all things of earth. Their life is not worth living.
Heaven desires the earth, and the earth is lost without heaven. Make your life a marriage of the two, as lovers that never part, and you will find peace.
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