Shavuot

Ten Commandment Day; Covenant Day

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt and without cost: the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. [Numbers 11:5] Not by bread alone does the man live, but by every word that leaves the mouth of G-D the man lives. [Deuteronomy 8:3] In my hast...

When did humankind begin to see – experience – the universe as one unified entity, instead of a composite of myriad pieces?

The opening word of the Ten Commandments sets the tone and captures the essence of all the commandments and of the entire Torah.

Even when one has no desire to learn Torah or to pray, nevertheless, one is not absolved from doing so.

Jacob’s ladder reaches up through the worlds to the Infinite Light. It’s a multi-millennial journey with milestones along the way

The Rebbe shed a tear and then replied, "In whom do you expect me to believe after Auschwitz? In man?"

At the Shavuot Festival meal, all the Rebbes said words of Torah from the Baal Shem Tov and a story about him.

When one sits down to seriously learn Torah, he is not just reading an ancient text; he is accessing G-d’s essence in a most intimate way.