Just as each person is composed of two elements, the body and soul, which we must learn to fully integrate, man and woman are the two elements of humankind.

The Torah is formatted into 53 portions. The numerical value of 53 spells Gan, garden. The Torah is a garden yielding the most Divine fruit.

The first month sets the tone of your relationship with the rest of the year.
Notable Days: Rosh Hashanah. Yom Kippur. Sukkot. Shemini Atzeret. Simchat Torah.

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The creation of the world has a Rosh Hashanah. So does Chassidism.

When you feel trapped it is time to question your trappings.

You are a tree. You are fruitful. Plant this seed into your earth.

Some masks disguise us. Others disguise our guises. Joy happens when you come face-to-face with your true self.

When you miss the boat, gather the materials at hand and build a new boat.

Shavuot is a Jewish agricultural festival (the wheat harvest) as well as a holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. The mystical dimensions of Shavuot involve harnessing the deep powers of the human soul to reach one's true potential.

Sometimes the sun sets. Once in a while it doesn’t. What does this teach us about shining?

When a temple is destroyed we have to ask ourselves who built the bulldozers.

The birthday of a leader reminds us of the reasons for our own birth: to bring life and light to the world.

More than the beginnings of a story, Genesis is the story of beginnings.

In the beginning… The key to life is to ensure that it is always beginning, never ending.

When your soul is free, your body does not remain enslaved for long.

We can offer our objects. Or we can offer our selves.

Taking a census of the people leads to a unified consensus.

We are the people of the Book and these are its words. Let us review them.

One lights candles, while the other tries to snuff them out.

These are the trailblazers, the precedence of state, the first who teach us how to always be the first.

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A soul can come down into this world for seventy-eighty years just to do a favor for another.

The ultimate reward and fulfillment of creation is in fusing the material and the spiritual.

Our brilliant light is not meant to blind or burn the world but to illuminate it.

Many people are flooded by life’s unceasing storm. A select few inspire us to build arks.

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Kabbalah is the soul of Torah. Kabbalah is the study of the soul: The human soul, and the soul of Torah, and the soul of everything in the material world.

From finding love to succeeding at a meaningful job, a spiritual approach is the foundation of lasting change.

Why is sexuality so powerful? Intimacy is a celebration of vulnerability; it touches the softest part in each person, the most private and fragile part of a human being.

Have you ever burst into tears for no apparent reason? That is your soul calling out to you, saying hello.

More than a set of dates, the Jewish calendar reflects the rhythms of reality, tuning us into the different frequencies of the world.

The holiest day on the Hebrew calendar is also the most misunderstood. Yom Kippur is a day of profound connection and transcendence. Discover the real Yom Kippur.

The deepest flames are those that burn when the nights get dark and the hearts cold.

Freedom may be defined as the right to ask questions.

Discover the mystical meaning of the holiday of Lag B'Omer, the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, an important mystic of the Jewish religion.

Exile can break a body or make a soul stronger. The choice is yours.

When romance is in the air you better start flying. Or at least inhaling.

When life gets overwhelming, a flood of emotions and a storm of possibilities, construct an ark.

The Book of Names, of Exodus: freedom is never forgetting your own name and always remembering The Name of the world.

Do you plague the world or does the world plague you?

A priest performs the temple service. We are the priests of our souls, our micro-temples.

Leadership is about being a head, while encouraging others to head in the right direction.

One can pray to change oneself, or one can pray to change the world.

It is having confidence in your purpose more that a crutch upon which to lean.

The encyclopedic collection of Oral Torah, the saints and sages of this era define and redefine, wit, wisdom, and soul.

Rebbi would say: Which is the right path for man to choose for himself?

The month of Elul is characterized, spiritually, as the month in which the Jewish people renews its "marriage" vows with our Creator.

In retrospect, so much could have been done differently to preempt today’s horrors. Clarity is essential.

The cocooned festival season has concluded. It is time to enter the raging floods of life.

The father of a multitude of nations, he brought the One to the many and inspired the many to become one.

The Maggid of Mezeritch, Rabbi DovBer, was a a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and the teacher of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

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We are all socialites. That is, we are all social lights.

The role of government is to strike a balance between individual rights and the greater good of the community. Yet no political system has been able to perfect this balance.

G-d is not an Orthodox Jew, nor is G-d Conservative or Reform. What about you?

Belief, itself, is a concept; and concepts require a certain amount of belief.

When nights get longer and days colder, it is time to light the world, illuminating darkness and defrosting life.
Notable Days: 19 Kislev. Chanukah.

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Experience 49 Days of Personal Transformation: The 7 week period between Passover and Shavuot, called Counting the Omer, is a powerful span of time, which empowers us to refine our lives and elevate our souls. The spectrum of human emotions divide into 49 different attributes, each one corresponding to one day in this 49-day period.

Prison walls are meant to be broken. Holy city walls are meant to be reinforced.

Sometimes, in order to arrive, one must first depart.

Leaving Egypt happened. But it is also happening.

It's called Leviticus and it's a Book of Calling. We may answer the call by offering our selves and servicing our temples.

Nature moves in increments of seven. But what moves nature?

Your raise the lights. But even more: the lights raise you.

The smallest thing often makes the biggest difference.

They are the things we cannot understand at all but which allow us to understand it all.

These are the bridges between the origins of where we come from and to where can go.

Akavia the son of Mahalalel would say: Reflect upon three things and you will not come to the hands of transgression...

We have to live with the times. Every moment is energized by a moment of eternal truth.

Constantly the eyes of God are upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

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Spirit is to matter what engine is to car.

True love and marriage is the process of two halves of one soul reuniting again for all eternity. This is why everyone is looking for it.

Technology taps the Divine forces present in nature from the moment of creation.

If our souls are embers, smoldering within, then a Great Mystic is the bellow, fanning that ember until it burns with Divinity.

The biography of a spiritual person is more than a simple sketch; it is a template from which we may learn.

Dancing! Singing! Epic Torah readings! Simchat Torah is time of mystical, transcendent fun. Uncover the deepest meanings of Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret.

Even as snows fall, you have the power to make worlds rise. Even as hearts turn to ice, you thaw the spirit.
Notable Days: 10 Tevet.

Reading these moral chapters of truth helps us write our own moral chapters in life.

True Reality appears when all else disappears.

The biggest splits may sometimes create the deepest unities.

Birth is a pure soul descending into an impure earth to purify the world.

In the Book of Numbers we travel through the wilderness, learning how to turn it into an oasis. This is how we journey through life.

We scout the land not to see if we can conquer it. We scan the land to see how we can conquer it.

Some people see what the world shows them. The blessed ones see what the world conceals.

Choices are free; it is the consequences that we pay for dearly. Or, more dearly, that pay us.

With unprecedented freedoms come unprecedented challenges. These teach us how to find the eternal in the modern.

Ben Zoma would say: Who is wise? One who learns from every man.

‘Nine’ and ‘eleven,’ two numbers that have changed the present and future of the world.

A wild man, whose hand will be on all and all hands will be on him.

When the holy words flow from on high, sometimes the ink doesn’t have time to dry.

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Every manmade structure has a blueprint. So does every God-made structure. The Torah is the blueprint of existence.

After many hours of looking for food, a bird returns to its nest, taking comfort in its warmth and safety. Your home and family are your nest.

Using “religion” to justify one’s bigotry might be the greatest and saddest distortion of a Divine ideal.

The natural world reflects a Divine reality. From weather events to breathtaking sunsets, there is much more to nature than meets the eye.

This is the original collection of one-liners, aphorisms, and just veritable wisdom. Read it and look smart.

It is time to explore our deep roots, branch out into new markets, and produce the sweetest, juiciest fruit.
Notable Days: Tu b'Shvat.

Life continues, even – or especially – when it seems to pass away.

Where heaven kisses earth – and earth kisses back.

As physical ailments require physical cures, spiritual ailments require spiritual cures.

Equality is more about being different than it is about being the same.

We learn in Deuteronomy that it isn’t enough to read life as third-person narrative. We also must live life as a first-person experience.

Humble righteousness is the difference between being a judge and being judgmental.

Exile is not a noun but a verb.

The world was created with ten utterances. What does this come to teach us?

When a person never waivers from the purity of the land, the purity of the land never waivers from the person.

The “Righteous Scion” taught: Think good and it will be good.

When someone dreams of instilling terror into the human heart, it is time to uproot the source of such dreams.

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Birth marks the beginning of our mission on earth, to transform the material into the spiritual. Therefore, for a person whose life consists of spiritual gains, life never truly ends.

Education is not just learning the skills to make a living; it is learning to understand life itself.

"Toward A Meaningful Life" is the book that started it all. It is a roadmap for living that presents a fresh perspective on every aspect of life. Elie Wiesel said, “Anyone wishing to understand and to appreciate the unique wisdom and greatness of the Lubavitcher Rebbe must read this faithful disciple’s adaptation and interpretation of his teaching.”

As this month enters our lives, joy enters our souls. There is a time to cry. This isn’t it.
Notable Days: Purim.

The physics of the family tree: the deeper the roots, the sweeter the fruit.

Are laws meant be broken – or to fix the broken?

Know that the Holy of Holies is the core. Don’t touch it, only feel it’s energy.

Truths aren’t written unto your soul. Truths are engraved into your soul.

Going out to war is not always a bad thing – so long as it is going “out” to war and not going “in” to war.

The arduous journey of life leads toward a light brightened by our travel. This destination keeps us going.

The sages expounded in the language of the Mishnah (blessed is He who chose them and their learning)...

It matters less where you grow up than how you grow up.

The world says: If you can’t go under, leap over; I say: In the first place, go over!

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When you equate your self-worth with your bank account, the result is anxiety. But when you equate money with divine gifts, the result is an invaluable blessing.

A gift from G-d, your body is a vehicle for your soul. Thus, while one must exercise the body, one should never worship it.

As winter comes to a close spring begins to bloom. It is called spring because it is time to spring free.
Notable Days: Passover.

Sometimes tricks are really treats. And sometimes treats are really tricks.

It isn’t enough to go to temple. One must also become a temple.

The Divine is holy. We are created in the Divine image. Holy we shall be.

When one attempts to curse a blessed entity, the blessed remains blessed and the cursed remains cursed.

Arriving to your destination – especially when it is a profound destination – is a journey in itself.

To pray is not to beg. To pray is to interweave with the Creator in high frequency conversations.

The Maimonides of Chassidut, codified, organized, and systemized esoteric profundity in a scientific way.

A man of the field, a warrior, this twin fathered the western world.

When you awake in the morning, while you are still lying in bed, think for a moment: What does it mean to be awake and alive?

The artist’s genius lies in the ability to bypass the externals and perceive the essence. This too is the goal of a mitzvah.

Every day of this month has a unique Mitzvah. In this month, we make every day count.
Notable Days: Pesach Sheini. Lag b'Omer.

To reach someone else, usually you have to reach out of yourself.

Some flames turn matter into ash. The flames of eternity turn matter into spirit.

To say something is more an art than an articulation.

Be a fundamentalist. Fundamentally good. Fundamentally holy. Fundamentally divine.

What we stand for is predicated upon whom we stand before.

America is not different. These words weren’t merely uttered. They were implemented.

Hear, O Israel, our father, we dedicate our lives to revealing the One in all things.

The real question we must ask is not just why we sometimes feel such acute pain, but what we are meant to learn from it.

Some events are current with eternal consequences. Other events are eternal with current consequences.

The third month as a free people hosts the profoundest event in the history – and future – of the universe.
Notable Days: Shavuot.

Being settled is not ceasing to move. Being settled allows you to move.

A whole can become broken, but a half can become a whole.

In order to reap in a healthy manner, there are times when one must stop sowing.

Tribes are like branches of the same tree. When they are together they are unbreakable.

Perhaps when a leader goes away it is so that we may go on.

“All sevens are precious.” The seventh generation is the culmination of a royal dream.

Dreamers do not cease to dream in prison. Nor when they lead the world economy.

Latkes on Chanukah… Cheesecake on Shavuot… Matzah on Pesach... Apples and honey on Rosh Hashanah… What are you really hungry for?

The sun shines and the summer begins. In the brightest times we have to standout by shining brighter.
Notable Days: 3 Tammuz. 12-13 Tammuz. 17 Tammuz.

Just because a soul is in prison doesn’t mean it cannot dream.

In order to build a House that will represent unity, it is essential to assemble the people in unity.

We may walk down the beaten path or we may walk up the never-beaten path. The choice is ours.

The journey of life is perpetual. Every stop is a start in the right direction.

Life is a song. Creations are its notes. We are its musicians. And the Creator is the Maestro.

Various are the paths of divine service. But to only one destination do they all lead.

What champagne is to celebration; what flowers are to romance; what music is to joy – a story is to life.

We mourn the destruction that has come. Then we commit to rebuilding it like never before.
Notable Days: 9 Av. 15 Av.

When humility embraces extravagance, the world is forever changed.

Accounts aren’t balanced. Accounts are what do the balancing.

Blessings are not printed. Blessings are drawn.

This is what happens when an insecure leader meets a secure nation.

There is no better way to end one year and start another than falling in love all over again. Notable Days: 18 Elul.

There are those who can live without really breathing. Just as there are those who can breathe without really living.

Good leaders enter the Promised Land. Great leaders teach people how to find the Promised Land on their own.

The minister of a foreign service has the ability to administer the most profound change.

Being born into a bitter exile does not mean you cannot learn to dance in the redemption.

The antithesis to the purpose of existence, they do everything to put out the fire. Even if it burns them.

No barrier can remain closed to a mother’s tears.