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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?
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.
Learning From the Rebbe
Land for Peace

The fourth installment of End the Cycle
Fundamental to Judaism is the belief in One G-d, and the quest to seek unity in all things... What is truly remarkable is that this idea has also gained prominence in the sciences, particularly in recent years. Increasingly, scientific theory and research is focusing on the endeavor to express all physical phenomena in a single formula and, more importantly, to discover the singular unifying force which underlies all other forces, so that all other forces are shown to be aspects and outgrowths of this singular force.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Print Magazine

Ask advice from those with experience. They will provide you freely that which they acquired with great expense.

The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, in a letter.