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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.
Achashverosh was a fool: first he killed his wife at the urging of his friend, and then he killed his friend at the urging of his wife.
— Yalkut Shimoni
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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