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Kedoshim

Hebrew Word of the Week
What Can the Hebrew Word for “Reminders” Teach You?

The Freeman Files
Quantum Talmud

Quantum logic helps explain a halachic ruling of Maimonides, a puzzling story of the Talmud, a Midrash about the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and a rabbinic teaching about the relationship between Torah and existence.
By the Numbers
Some Facts About the Holocaust for Those Just Learning

Between the years 1938 and 1945 the German Nazis and their willing collaborators murdered 6 million Jews and millions of others.
10 Questions: Take the Kotel Quiz

What do you know about this nucleus of prayer for all Jews?
Your Questions
Why a Funeral for Burned Torah Scrolls?

The respect we give to our human dead is akin to the respect we give to a destroyed Torah scroll.
Ordinary People; Extraordinary Stories
The Courage to Live With Joy After Losing Four Children

Learn how Vivi and her husband mustered the strength and positivity to raise their family, including four children who died due to a genetic disorder.
On Campus
Mothering Jewish Students in the Shadow of the Hateful Encampments

Chabad at the University of Chicago stands strong in challenging times.
12 Tips for Jewish Public School Parents in Today's Climate

How to fortify your children against antagonism in educational settings.
Parshah
Soul Sister

I was feeling great before she walked into the room. She came in, our eyes met, and my joie de vivre started to deflate . . .
Car Therapy

Sometimes we mistakenly believe that negative behavior or language is only problematic when it hurts someone else. We think that we have a license to behave as we wish, as long as we keep it to ourselves.
Video
Faith After the Holocaust

A sword or gun, or fire or water, can affect only the physical body or the soul’s connection to the body, but never the soul itself . . .
Are You Brave Enough For These Conversations?

Join us as we sit down with Rebbetzin Nechamie Silberberg co-director of the Chabad at Western University in London, Ontario. Nechamie has been a Chabad Emissary for over 20 years and helped many of her students and alumni walk to the chuppah.
Wherever you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your G-d, my G-d. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried
— Ruth to Naomi (Ruth 1:16-17)
Print Magazine

That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—that force is a single whole, and it is G‑d.

It is not all of G‑d. It is an expression of G‑d. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothin...