Cheder Chabad of Baltimore

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Cheder Chabad instills in its students a love for one another and an excitement for their roles as Yidden. All learning is guided by the principles of Chabad Chassidus, to help our students attain the knowledge, values, and strength of conviction to make and maintain a lifelong commitment to Torah and mitzvos.

Cheder Chabad of Baltimore has gained a stellar reputation for its warm, nurturing preschool and growing, Cheder-style elementary school. Cheder Chabad now hosts over 400 students in the historic Beth Jacob synagogue campus. Cheder includes a vibrant preschool, boys elementary through 8th grade, and a girls elementary through 8th grade. Our school caters to the students of the Jewish community across Maryland and southern Pennsylvania. We always welcome new families to come and see what is growing here at Cheder Chabad.

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The Spiral Staircase

The Baal Shem Tov described life as a spiral staircase, constantly deflecting away from your target in order to attain it. In Yiddish it’s called a “swindling staircase.” Some wise chassidim have pointed out a connection: Life swindles you into believing you are going in circles when really you are traveling higher each day. This is the way of every true and lasting ascent: Just as you’re making some progress upward, you see yourself falling away and stumbling in the dark. If you could see the whole picture, how all things resolve in the end, you would see how those periods of darkness and failure are truly steps higher and yet higher. They must be. Because we did not create life. G‑d did. And for Him, there are...

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