Exile
Exile is not a noun but a verb.
Chains, fences, and barbed wire create physical exiles; but there are exiles that run much deeper. Being chained off from your own self, or handcuffed from your own abilities, is devastating; being imprisoned within your own insecurities, or constricted by your own fears, is sadness personified. In many cases the keys to the tumblers that lock us down are within our very own pockets – or at least within our very own souls. Every single person has been to an exile or ten. And every single person has had the ability to be free.
The Amphibian Soul
Just as a fish lives submerged within the environment that sustains it, we must also immerse ourselves in the truth of our existence.
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A Jew in Madagascar
A freely-translated excerpt from a letter the Rebbe wrote in the fall of 1961 to a Jewish woman living in Madagascar.
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A Border Birth
A story of Yocheved, Moses’ mother, being born on the threshold between freedom and slavery.
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Devorim: The Death of Modern Zionism ?
As we approach the 1937th year since the Temple was destroyed in Jerusalem, Israel is still struggling with its own the identity and raison de’ etre..
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The Intimate Estrangement
Linking G-d’s bond with the Jews as a marriage with the ten haftarot called “the Three of Rebuke and the Seven of Consolation” in explaining the galut/exile.
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Mixed Feelings
Jacob teaches us the proper perspective of exile; refusing to become reconciled with it or accepting it as a state that is normal or comfortable.
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The Mysterious Sin
From the Chassidic Master, Rabbi Velvel of Zbaricz, we gain insight into the phenomenon of exile.
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The Wealth of Nations
Discover how every object, force and phenomenon in existence has a spark of G-dliness within it. Learn to hasten a personal and universal redemption.
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Few and Deficient
Jacob teaches us what it means to lead a righteous life; a life of purpose, altruism and compassion.
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A Holy Land
Just as there were two primary modes of sanctification of the Land—the “conquest” mode of the First Temple Era and the “settlement” mode of the Second Temple Era—so, too, are there two modes of sanctification in the macrocosmic endeavor of life.
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