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Vayakhel 5782

Audio

7 Inspiring Jewish Lessons From Fish

What Is the Jewish Perspective on the Bible Codes?

Why Was Samuel Upset by the Request for a King

Bo 5782

Audio

Why Did G-d Smite the Firstborn?

On Didactics, Depravity, and Decapitating Donkeys

Vayeishev 5781

Audio

Living From Within, Hearing With Your Soul

My Father, My Superman

What Is a Gemach?

‘Home Away From Home’ at Miami University

The Soul’s Wrestling Match: Can It Be a Peaceful Battle?

Vayishlach 5782

Audio

Vayishlach 5782

Mothering Teens Is Harder Than I Thought

Feeling Rejected by My Former Shabbat Hosts

12 Facts About Benjamin Everyone Should Know

A Chabad Friendship Saved My Life

Why Aren’t Shellfish Kosher?

Vayeitzei 5782

Audio

A Tale of Two Butchers

My Husband Gets Agitated Over Every Request

The Reason Isaac Went Blind

Why Jacob Loved Rachel

Judaism and Pet Ownership: 18 FAQs

Re'eh 5781

Audio

I Have a Weird Fear of Death

The Kind Benefactor Who Was Barred From Heaven

Why Does G-d Send Us False Prophets?

7 Life Lessons From My Pool Robot Cleaner

Fighting the Pre-Shabbat Madness

Eikev 5781

Audio

Can You Bribe G‑d?

Va'etchanan 5781

Audio

Va'etchanan 5781

The Ignorant Groom’s Transformation

Hachnasat Kallah

11 Unique Jewish Wedding Traditions From Around the World

Five Comforting Quotes From Nachamu, Isaiah’s Prophecy of Comfort

Devarim 5781

Audio

Singing on Foreign Soil

Why Does G-d Want Us to Get Frustrated?

The Sobering Reality of Sober Living

Inner Voices and Dumb Choices

The American Soldier Who Stood Up to the Nazis—and Won!

Matos-Massei 5781

Audio

Matos-Massei 5781

18 Facts About Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

What Is the Significance of King David’s Harp?

Being Honest Should be Completely Obvious

The Empowering Art of Framing

Losing My Diamond Ring Helped Me See the Real Gem

Pinchas 5781

Audio

Why Orphans Are Not Made to Give Charity

The Daily Grind and the Daily Lamb

Promises Fulfilled: Buried Near the Shaagas Aryeh

Braiding Challah and Learning Torah in the Rebbetzin’s Kitchen in Japan

Judging a Stranger Favorably at the Cemetery in Tzfat

Balak 5781

Audio

The Man Who Sold His Place In Heaven

How to Explain Death to Small Children

Who Was Apostomus, Who Burned a Torah Scroll?

17 Facts About Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch

Abigail, King David and the Secret of the Black Halo

Why the Jewish People Await Moshiach

Chukas 5781

Audio

Is It a Mitzvah to Believe in G‑d?

Is the Snake-on-a-Rod Medical Sign Kosher?

The Song of the Well

What Happened to the Clouds of Glory?

Korach 5781

Audio

Did Chabad's Founder Envision an American Future?

Moses Never Gave Up on Them

Do You Procrastinate?

My First Al-Anon Meeting

A New Epoch in Torah Learning

Shelach 5781

Audio

16 Mezuzah Facts Every Jew Should Know

Mechateich - Cutting

How Did the Mission of the Twelve Spies Go So Wrong?

Defeating the Inner Defeatist

Summoned by a Soul

Behaaloscha 5781

Audio

Behaaloscha 5781

The Tailor Who Did Not Know He Was Special

Shuckling: Why Do Jews Rock While Praying?

10 Facts About Miriam Everyone Should Know

Mesarteit - Ruling Lines

Is There a Limit to What We Can Make Holy?

Naso 5781

Audio

Why Eat Fish on Shabbat?

Does Every Day Matter?

Memachek - Smoothing

The Gift of a Child in Addiction & Mental Health Recovery

Bamidbar 5781

Audio

The Miraculous Salvation of Iraq’s Jews

The Last Time I Drove on Shabbat

How Do We Know the Torah Is Real?

Meditating on the First Commandment Can Change Your Life

Finding Purpose in Our Daughter's Addiction

Behar

Audio

Can We Ever Really Change?

Why Do We Say Yizkor When We Do?

Emor

Audio

Mafshit - Skinning

Abandoned Mitzvahs

A Life of Joy in Spite of Pain: Lessons From My Dear Aunt

He Won't Commit!

Why G‑d Didn’t Put the Courts Over the Priests

Acharei-Kedoshim

Audio

Acharei-Kedoshim

The Effects of Emotional Trauma

Fake It Until They Make It?

Does Judaism Allow Genetic Engineering and Designer Babies?

Shochait - Slaughtering

Waters of Goodness

11 Facts About the Month of Iyar Every Jew Should Know

Tazria-Metzora

Audio

Why Are People Afraid of Dogs?

Is It Wrong to Like a Lot of Stuff?

Does It Matter Which Words Rashi Quotes?

15 Facts About Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch

Jerusalem Stone: What Is It, and Why Is It Used?

Vayikra

Audio

What Does the Last Name Levy Mean?

The Small Aleph

How Traditional Are Matzo Balls?

Feeling Held by G-d During My Quest for a Baby

My First Orthodox Wedding and the Unveiling of My Own Truth

Radios and Judaism

Untitled

Audio

Vaykhel - Pikudei

Coming Home: 65-Year-Old Hidden Jew Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah

14 Kosher Myths and Facts

What Does the Jewish Last Name Cohen Mean?

Stop Thinking and Start Doing

The Rebbe Who Did Not Praise

The Unique Place

Untitled

Audio

The Enemy of Your Enemy

Down to the Details

Why Did Some of Mordechai's Peers Disapprove of Him?

How to Celebrate Purim @ Home: 10 Tips

Teruma

Audio

The Faithful Innkeeper

The First Crowdfunding Campaign

How to Overcome the "Amalek" of Today

Kissing G-d Outside

What Does Kaplan Mean?

Why Read the Megillah Twice?

Mishpatim

Audio

A Fulfilled Dream: Converting to Judaism Despite Terminal Diagnosis

The ‘Bittul’ of Motherhood: Giving and Getting in Unforeseen Ways

Divinity Is in the Details

Is It Kosher to Short Stocks?

Halacha = Motion

Beshalach

Audio

Why I Didn’t Come to Your Baby’s Brit

Teaching My Son Multiplication and Myself About Challenges

7 Life Lessons I Learned From Yudi Dukes

Who “Invented” the Holiday on 15 Shevat?

Untitled

Audio

12 Things Children Wish Their Parents Knew

I Thought I Made the Mistake of My Life. Then I Went Swimming

10 Ways to Celebrate 10 Shevat

Under the Darkness

What Is the Secret of Chabad?

Va'eira

Audio

The Woman Who Didn't Speak for 40 Years

Yes, I Struggle With Dressing Modestly

My Dad's Jewish, Why Should I Convert?

Why Write "G‑d" Instead of "G-o-d"?

What Does the Jewish Last Name Jaffe Mean?

Vayechi

Audio

7 Parables of the Maggid of Dubno

Your Judaism’s Too Dry? How About Some Wine?

The Concealed 'End of Times'

Deaf Angels and Failed Dates

Can a Serial Shoplifter Make Amends?

Vayigash

Audio

Perseverance Vs. Perfection

10 Facts About the Tenth of Tevet

Why Judah Lost His Cool

Circumcision, Berzerkeley, and the Power of Five Minutes

The Soul's Journey

Can I Use Vaccines Made From Fetal Tissue or Non-Kosher Animals?

Chanukah

Audio

When You Want to Just Give It a Break

13 Tips for an Amazing Hanukkah at Home

13 Chanukah (Hanukkah) Myths and Misconceptions

Vayeishev

Audio

Attachment Theory 2.0

Vayishlach

Audio

13 Hanukkah Facts Every Jew Should Know

The Peril of Perfection

Can We Add Our Own Jewish Holidays?

Saved by an Arab Angel

A Pet Shelter, a Tin Menorah, and an Averted Suicide

So You Want to be Spiritual? Proceed with Caution

Vayeitzei

Audio

When Jacob Discovered He Was Israel

Matir - Untying

15 Historical Facts About Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch

13 Leah Facts Everyone Should Know

Nothing Is Coincidental, Not Even a Set of Sofas

Toldot

Audio

14 Facts About Esau Everyone Should Know

Do You Really Think G-d Speaks to Us?

The Greedy Liar and the Grateful Merchant

The Jewish View on Hunting for Sport

Chayei Sarah

Audio

Why a Happy Marriage Is Like Matzo Ball Soup

A Hospital Miracle and the Power of a Favor

Torah and Geometry

Eve, Noah, Sarah: Sin, Stupor, Serenity

12 Facts Every Jew Should Know About Eliezer

Vayeira

Audio

13 Facts About Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch

How to Be a Luminary

Why Were There Famous Rabbis Called Ishmael?

The Marriage That Was Meant to Be

Lech Lecha

Audio

12 Facts Every Jew Should Know About Rachel

Undoing the Distortions of a Dream

She Never Knew Her Great-Great-Grandma Was Jewish

Journey of the Soul

The Odd Prayer and the Lost Bandit

How Could Abraham Let Sarah Be Abducted?

Noach

Audio

The Trickle-Down Effect

Two Cultures, One Identity: How Persian Chabad Welcomed Two Soviet Jews

Looking Forward to a World Where All Beans Are Counted

Five Judaism Lessons My Cat Taught Me

I Ate Non-Kosher Food, Now What?

Sukkot

Audio

10 Tips for an Amazing Sukkot @ Home

Got the Post-Yom Kippur Blues?

12 Sukkot Customs You Should Know

Why Is Sukkot Happier Than Any Other Jewish Holiday?

Yom Kippur

Audio

9 Yom Kippur Myths and Misconceptions

Torah Studies: Ha-azinu

On the Essence of Shabbat Shuvah

14 Tips for an Amazing Yom Kippur at Home

Yussie's Yom Kippur Prayer

Why Start Yom Kippur With Kol Nidre?

Nitzavim-Vayelech

Audio

Nitzavim-Vayelech

When the King Asked for Berel the Wagon Driver

The Corona Birth That Actually Went Right

Ki Tavo

Audio

The Need to Hit the Refresh Button Every Night

The Rebuke and the Unhappy Shoe Salesman

9 Tips for an Amazing Rosh Hashanah at Home

Blessings and Curses

Ki Teitzei

Audio

How Two Russian-Born Crypto-Jews Rediscovered Their Identity

10 Ways to Be More Responsible

How Do You Feel Connected to a Man You Never Knew?

How I Will Celebrate Rosh Hashanah Alone

Why Must I Work at My Marriage?

Shoftim

Audio

Who Are Sephardic Jews?

The Wise Words That Saved a Life

Seven Thoughts About Elul to Help Us Turn Inward and Forgive

Am I just a Figment of Someone's Imagination?

Re'eh

Audio

In Reckless Waters: Falling in Love with a Non-Jew

Being Kosher: What Do the Kosher Signs Teach Us?

Bishul - Cooking

Multi-Layered Festivals

Discovering the Real Resting Place of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berdichev

16 Kaddish Facts Every Jew Should Know

Eikev

Audio

The Rhyme of No Reason

7 Joyous Events That Happened on the 15th of Av

The Challenge of Scripted Prayers

The Dancing Maidens of Jerusalem

The Chassid and the Fool at the Leipzig Fair

Va'etchanan

Audio

Confessions of a ‘Highly Sensitive’ Chabad Rebbetzin

Why Is Tisha B'Av Afternoon Less Mournful?

Hear the Oneness

10 Tips for a Meaningful Tisha B’Av at Home

Meraked - Sifting

Devarim

Audio

How a Motherless Widow Embraced Kindness

Why Was Jerusalem Chosen?

In Your Own Voice

Teaching the Shoah

12 Facts Every Jew Should Know About the 9 Days

Matos

Audio

The Bookbinder in Heaven

A Slumber and a Headache

Women of Menasseh

The Bible Reads Like a Soap Opera!

From Cambodian Princess to Shabbat Queen

Pinchas

Audio

I Was Sent Into Quarantine by Error

10 Chassidic Ideas That (if applied) Will Change You Into a Better Person

The Rabbi and the King

Is There Mystical Meaning in Klezmer?

Chukat-Balak

Audio

The Coin Toss Was Not Random

Who Was Elisheva?

Zoreh - Winnowing

The Crouching Lion

Swapping the Cross of My Childhood for a Star of David

Korach

Audio

What Was Korach Thinking?

Dosh - Threshing

15 Facts About Aaron Every Jew Should Know

How the Rebbe Saved South African Jewry

Shelach

Audio

The Newark Riots and a Match Made in Heaven

Me’amer - Gathering

Scouting a New Path

13 Facts About the Mitzvah to Visit the Sick

Behaalotecha

Audio

Seven Branches, Seven Truths

Why Did G‑d Give Me Mental Illness?

11 Kippah Facts Every Jewish Guy Should Know

Tapping Into My Newfound Faith in the Face of COVID-19

A Grief Therapist Faces Grief

Naso

Audio

The Blessing of Love

Choresh - Plowing

‘I Am Alive’: Not Taking Life for Granted During COVID-19

Corona and Torah

9 Tips for Your Second Shavuot at Home

My Wedding Plans Out the Window?

Shavuot: COVID-19 and Beyond!

My Shelter-in-Place Shavuot

3 Ways Quarantine Is Helping Me Refine My Communication Skills

9 Ways to Stay Sane With Kids at Home

Balancing Competing Values

Overcoming My Disordered Eating

The Rebbe Knew My Wife Had It in Her

Zoraya - Planting

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