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A noted scholar and researcher, Rabbi Yehuda Shurpin serves as content editor at Chabad.org, and writes the popular weekly Ask Rabbi Y column. Rabbi Shurpin is the rabbi of the Chabad Shul in St. Louis Park, Minn., where he resides with his wife, Ester, and their children.
While prayer is often seen as a deeply personal conversation with G-d, Judaism teaches that it is also fundamentally communal.
Can produce grown without direct connection to the earth still be called pri ha’adamah—“fruit of the ground”?
The synagogue is a place of prayer and reverence, and conversation and unnecessary interruptions should therefore be avoided throughout the service.
Tzedakah is not merely an act of kindness; it is a Divine commandment and a cornerstone of Jewish life. Why, then, did the Sages not institute a blessing before its performance?
How Much Effort Must I Exert to Return the Lost Object to its Owner?
When can permission be assumed? Are mitzvah items treated differently? What happens if an item is damaged?
Tracing the origins of a subtle liturgical divide.
And why doesn’t Chabad recite “E-l Melech Ne’eman”?
The Shema contains 245 words. This is significant because it is just three words shy of 248, the number of “limbs” in the human body according to the Talmudic reckoning. See Mishna Ohalot 1:9; Talmud Bechorot 45b, cited by Maimonides in Hilchot Tumat Met ...
Practically, a Kohen must be careful not to become ritually impure through exposure to a dead body.
Since these clothes are worn in honor of Shabbat itself, not in honor of whoever may happen to see you, this applies even when you’re alone.
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