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By the Numbers
9 Exotic and Esoteric Things Jews Do With Garlic

The humble garlic bulb sure packs a punch in flavor, health benefits, and even spiritual powers!
10 Questions: Take the Hanukkah Customs Quiz

What do you know about our unique Hanukkah Customs?
Your Questions
Is the New “Alt-Milk” Kosher Parve?

From a halachic standpoint, would lab-generated milk proteins be considered kosher? And if they are kosher, would they be classified as dairy or pareve?
The Freeman Files
13 Meditations on Finance

Parshah
Huff, Puff and Stuff

Jacob, the quintessential scholar, finds a "permanent home" with the birth of Zebulun, the archetypal businessman. Such is the reality in a Divinely ordered universe, where some things refuse to rhyme but everything has a reason
How Could Jacob Marry Two Sisters?

We know that Jacob, and all the patriarchs, kept the commandments of the Torah that would be later given to their descendants. Why, then, did Jacob marry sisters, a direct prohibition?
History
Ri Hazaken: The Great Developer of Tosafot

Beginning in France, Tosafot represented a sea change in the study of Talmud.
Why Reb Nochum Fell from His Horse

Informed that his son was in grave danger, the rebbe merely motioned with his hand to continue the festivities.
Lifestyle
Pumpkin Doughnuts

Learning From the Rebbe
Land for Peace

The fourth installment of End the Cycle
Focus on the Good

The Rebbe's Private Counsel Installment 17
G-d, in His goodness, renews the universe and all creatures every moment with His particular Divine Providence, which constitutes - to the exclusion of all else - the reality, life-force and sustained existence of all creations
— Hayom Yom, Sivan 29
Print Magazine

From a letter to one who had fallen into extreme debt, could find no way out, and had become depressed (paraphrased for clarity):

When spirits are down, your confidence in G‑d is weakened. That’s not good, because everything depends upon that spirit of confidence.

Your confidence when things get rough is the measu...