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 Tzvi Freeman, a senior editor at Chabad.org, is also author of several books, including Wisdom to Heal the Earth. He writes Chabad.org's highly popular Daily Dose of Wisdom. Rabbi Freeman served for five years as mashpia of the West Coast Rabbinic Seminary in Los Angeles, and currently resides in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Subscribe to regular updates of Rabbi Freeman's writing with the Freeman Files subscription.
The signature metaphor in Tanya to describe all human activity, popping up in some form or another on almost every page, is clothing. Life, according to Tanya, is less about who you are and more about what you wear.
The abbreviation, often appearing after the names of those who have been murdered, stands for Hashem yikom damam—may G-d avenge their blood.
Instead of sweating over what everyone is thinking of you, spend that energy just being a nice guy.
Be Abraham. Take ownership. Shatter the narrative. Don’t let hatred define you.
Abraham constructed a ladder up to G-d. A ladder of insight and enlightenment. Then G-d pulled the ladder out from under him.
Winning the war against the Jewish soul
There are those who say there is a war in a faraway land called Israel. They are mistaken. There is a war against every Jewish woman, man, and child wherever in the world they may be. The peddlers of terror do not hate Israel because they wish to liberate...
This is how we have survived. This is how Jews have illuminated the world over many millennia. With simchah, with utter confidence in G‑d, and a solid belief in our amazing people.
The story behind the divine soul
Within each of us is a breath of the divine, a neshamah. Everything else is created by speech. She is created by breath and by thought. Everything else is obsessed with being just what it is. But the neshamah hears the music of creation and yearns for it ...
Just as we invoke the existence of a force of gravity to explain things falling and an electromagnetic force to explain a host of otherwise very mysterious phenomena, so we invoke the existence of a soul-force to explain our inner experience of being aliv...
Let’s Get Straight What We Mean by a Soul
A scientist bet a philosopher that we would uncover the mechanism of consciousness in the brain. He lost. As a student of Chabad, I'm hoping he will win this time around. Here's why.
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