Peoples, Nationalities & Cultures

During the first three plagues the Jews were also affected. During the fourth the Jews were not affected. What was the difference?

On the difference between Egypt and the Holy Land, and the inner significance of the Plague of Hail

All of creation may be divided into three categories: the good, the bad and the frogs

Our source of sustenance is neither regular nor predictable. It does not well up from a channel grooved in the earth, nor is it treaded up from a hole in the ground. Our eyes are forever trained upward, in hope and expectation, and in faith . . .

Are thing supposed to be the way things are, or are things supposed to be the way things are supposed to be?

The plain reading of the text certainly implies that they did.

As the Rebbe’s emissary in Temecula, Calif., I found that people were always happy and respected that I was observant.

Throughout all Egypt, the dust turned into lice. But when the magicians tried to produce lice by their secret arts, they could not. The lice attacked men and animals alike. The magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of G‑d.” But Pharaoh’s heart wa...