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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.
Podcasts
Everything Jewish You Need to Know This Week

In today’s episode, we’ve got rabbi-beating berserker ladies, fake Hungarians, and some sadly deceased horses.
I Was a Teen and He Died in My Arms

She needed to overcome her trauma to mother her own children. A trained psychotherapist, Dr. Robyn Koslowitz now helps others do the same.
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
Come With Me to the Ohel
Join the thousands of visitors coming in advance of 10 Shevat.
The Mystery of the Mongolian Genocide

A brief documentary on the tiny Mongolian Jewish community and their quest to honor the victims of a little-known mass murder of the country's Jews.
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

Just like in the case of two people who are wrestling... if one of them moves with sloth and lethargy, he will be easily defeated and felled, even if he is stronger than his fellow; so, too, in battling one's evil inclination, one can prevail over it ... only with alacrity that comes from joy and from a heart that is free and cleansed from every trace of worry and sadness...
— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi
Print Magazine

On Simchat Torah we dance with our feet, not with our heads.

We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah is something we study with our heads. But we dance with our feet, not with our heads.

If we would dance with our heads, each one would dance a different dance, each in a different space, some with friends but not wit...

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