Bamidbar: The Wilderness & the Torah
Teaching from the Alter Rebbe which highlight the significance of receiving the Torah in the desert and how this is a lesson for our daily lives..
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Defining Need
It is easy for one to get caught up with all the things they need and don’t have.
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Gastronomic Universe
Physical & spiritual pleasures: In Parshat Balak the Jews faced the plague of Pe’or – they encountered the cosmic digestive system & the energy of waste.
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Shoftim: Elul Whispers
Elul is the month of love and compassion. As we enter the month we ask how we understand this in light of the reality around us filled with terror and war?
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The Third Wagon
A story of Rabbi Shneur Zalman as he flees from Liadi in the third wagon of an escort procession from the Czar.
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The Oven Stokers of Mezerich
A story of the ‘Oven Stoker’s of Mezeritch’ and how each of them described their degree of self-sacrifice attained in their service of the Almighty.
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The Prisoner
An old chassidic story that exemplifies the awe chassidim have for their Rebbe.
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The Bottom Line
Discover how the unity of G-d can infiltrate even the most mundane of activities.
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The Prodigy Under the Bed
An honest appraisal of your own character will show you how much there is for you to emulate and learn from those who are supposedly ‘inferior’ to yourself.
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Electric Light
The elementary principle of Chassidism: to draw down and connect the ultimate heights with the lowest depths.
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Although I am not Jewish, I always enjoy Simon Jacobson’s material. I am terribly dismayed to see that so many people can not look past the “religion” to see the deep, complex universal teachings that are practically relevant to every human life. I have learnt so much from this amazing modern scholar!
-Ismiallh