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By the Numbers
Did You Know That Many Yemenites Can Read Hebrew Upside Down?

Read 18 incredible facts about Yemenite Jews
10 Questions: Take the Rebecca Quiz

How well do you know the Matriarch Rebecca? Test your knowledge!
Essay
Upward Without Limit

G-d’s infinite concealment and ascent is just as accessible as G-d’s infinite revelation and descent.
Schrödinger’s Rabbi: The Talmud’s Mind-Bending Take on Reality

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.
History
In Lubavitch a Home Was Built

This week is 111 years since the passing of Rebbetzin Rivkah.
Parshah
Why Did Pharaoh Pursue the Jews?

After enduring the devastation of the Ten Plagues, what sense did it make for the Egyptians to pursue the Israelites?
I Cry and Pray to G-d, but Illness Has Not Broken My Spirit

Sometimes it feels like we are in an impossible situation, everything seems to be against us, and we are backed against a raging tide.
Voices
Unexpected Miracles

I first discovered the teachings of the Rebbe during the Covid shutdown. Many wonderful things have since happened.
Video
How G-d Is Hiding in Your Struggle

Unpacking the powerful message of the monumental Chassidic discourse ‘Basi LeGani’, with a focus on the 15th chapter, which is widely being studied this year in preparation for the 10th of Shevat.
Lifestyle
How to Make Pita Bread at Home

Seven things are hidden from man: the day of death, the day of the Redemption, the absolute truth in a judgment; also, no man knows how he will earn a livelihood, what is in his neighbor's heart, what a woman is bearing, and when the wicked will fall.
— Midrash Rabbah
Print Magazine

Fighting evil is a very noble job. But it is not your mission in life.

Your job is to bring in more light.

Stay completely out of such battles, arguments, and debates.

Not because you aren't able to win. Not because your heart is too delicate to go to war.

But because every bit of your energy needs to be dedi...

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