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By the Numbers
11 Facts You Should Know About Mixing Milk and Meat

Refraining from mixing milk and meat is a biblical instruction with far-reaching ramifications in Jewish law.
10 Questions: Take the Chanukah Food Quiz

Do you know your Chanukah foods?
Essay
Chanukah: Life on the Threshold

There’s a kind of transcendent vibration of possibility in a doorway—a potential that isn't found in the more clearly defined areas of “indoors” or “outdoors.”
I am Scared to Celebrate Hanukkah This Year!

I used to put my menorah in my window, but since last year I’m scared of having my window smashed.
Letters of Light
Ordinary People; Extraordinary Stories
To Russia with Love

The oys and joys of moving to Rostov, Russia, and serving a Jewish community that has reawakened after 70 years of Communist repression.
Video
How to Light the Menorah

A short demo for lighting the Chanukah menorah.
A Chanukah Message for All Ages

Chanukah reminds every Jew that it is G-d’s eternal mandate to carry the torch of His “Mitzvah-candle and Torah-light.” With most Mitzvos, the “candle” and “light” are not physically visible. But with the Chanukah candles we see how fulfilling the Mitzvah creates actual physical light that illuminates all one’s surroundings.
8 Major Hanukkah Myths

Let's bust some urban legends about this wintertime holiday.
Don’t Forget Your Anniversary!
Did you ever forget an anniversary or birthday of a loved one? Here's what the Rebbe told one husband who forgot…
Parshah
Did Joseph Really Have a Magic Goblet?

What was the infamous goblet that was placed in Benjamin's pack?
Joseph’s Sons and Chanukah

What lesson can we take from Joseph? Why did Manasseh come first? How does this connect to Chanukah?
Jewish News
Should you say: what one sage permits, another prohibits; what Rabbi Eleazar condemns, Rabbi Joshua acquits; what the House of Shammai disqualifies, the House of Hillel declares fit; to whom then shall we listen? Says G-d: Nevertheless, it is all given from one Shepherd...
— Midrash Rabbah
Print Magazine

We all suffer a maddening delusion of being something separate from G‑d. The delusion of “I.”

We cannot heal it, because yes, we exist, for He created us.

We cannot live with it, because this chilling notion of otherness is a denial of the truth.

But we can resolve it in the act of learning Torah. In learning Torah, He...