Men & Women

The doctor diagnoses the nature of the illness and prescribes treatment and the nurse is the one who usually administers it.

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In November of 1928, the Rebbe’s marriage to Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, daughter of the then Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, was held in Warsaw, Poland. By then word of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak’s heroic struggle on behalf of Soviet Jewry was ...

How WOMEN & MEN can respect and celebrate their different but equal roles

On the sixth day of creation, So G-d divided "man" into two entities, male and female. And then joined them in marriage. Why, then, we must ask, did G-d not create them as two in the first place?

The brain and heart are equally central to the body’s health and homeostasis. Nevertheless, each has its own function. Similarly, man and woman are equal in importance and in their contribution to Jewish life and continuity. But they have different roles.

At the time of the Song of Moses, the Jews were in the midst of a great journey through an awesome desert. They had yet to reach, conquer and establish a Jewish homeland. By contrast, at the time of the Song of Deborah, the Jews were already settled in th...

This letter was written to the leaders of the Lubavitch community in Montreal. 24 Teves, 5703the yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe Greetings and blessings, You are certainly aware of the work of [the organization] Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch which my revered fathe...

The classical interpretation is that Leah and Dinah’s behavior is being condemned as unbecoming the Jewish woman’s virtue of “innerness.” But a careful analysis of the source texts shows the very opposite to be the case . . .

He was unapologetic about the woman’s unique role and campaigned for women to be true to their “womanhood,” as established by Torah.