Kabbalah & Chassidism; Mysticism

Even someone with a thorough knowledge of the laws of Shabbat must grapple with the complicated question of what exactly is considered work by the Torah’s definition.

Why was the Tabernacle erected in the wilderness, a seemingly inopportune time and setting for such an endeavor?

Since the universe is basically words (see Genesis 1), everything -- marriage, community building, international relations, cosmic harmony -- is a question of proper grammar

What is “work”? If life is synonymous with creativity, is Shabbat a time outside life? What is the deeper significance of the curious Talmudic phrase, “forty labors minus one”?

What was the Holy Temple? Why was it destroyed? Do we have anything like it today? Do we really want to see it rebuilt and bring back those animal sacrifices? Seventeen essays, articles and stories on the holiest place on earth

"Wise-hearted" sounds contradictory. Wisdom is a faculty of the mind, but the heart is the seat of our emotions.

You can't build a lasting building out of half-baked bricks. But people, says the Lubavitcher Rebbe, are not bricks

The "spiritual awakening" that is the objective and culmination of our working the Steps has been described as heaven on earth.