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Va'era
By the Numbers
12 Savory and Surprising Things Jews Do With Salt
This humble kitchen staple shows up in Jewish life in many diverse ways.
This humble kitchen staple shows up in Jewish life in many diverse ways.
The Freeman Files
G-d Is a Dangerous Idea
If G‑d is not to be a dangerous idea, G‑d must be good. But that would seem to be a small G‑d, a defined G‑d, limited by the parameters of goodness. How can we believe in a G‑d that contains all of existence and yet believe that His goodness is real and absolute? There is only one solution, but it is a very strange and radical solution...
If G‑d is not to be a dangerous idea, G‑d must be good. But that would seem to be a small G‑d, a defined G‑d, limited by the parameters of goodness. How can we believe in a G‑d that contains all of existence and yet believe that His goodness is real and absolute? There is only one solution, but it is a very strange and radical solution...
Voices
The Honor of Being the Cousin: The Legacy of Rabbi Leima Minkowicz
He took a girl who had just moved to New York that very day, barely knowing a soul, and provided me with a family—a real family—that he made sure I knew I would always be a part of.
He took a girl who had just moved to New York that very day, barely knowing a soul, and provided me with a family—a real family—that he made sure I knew I would always be a part of.
Parshah
Solutions With a Soul
Every human being has incalculable worth; differences in ability are superimposed upon our innate humanity.
Every human being has incalculable worth; differences in ability are superimposed upon our innate humanity.
Within a piece of bread (and every other created thing) is an "utterance of G-d's mouth" -- the letters of Divine speech that are the instrument of its creation. When the human body hungers for physical bread, it is but a reflection of its soul's craving for the Divine utterance that is the "soul" of the bread.
— Rabbi DovBer, the Maggid of Mezeritch
Print Magazine
A favorite story of the Rebbe, central to his activist view of life:
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the first rebbe of the Lubavitch dynasty, led the services for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year.
He stood wrapped in his prayer shawl, profoundly entranced in the cleaving of his soul to its origin in the Infinite...
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