Tipping the Scales with a Single Thought

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Thoughts to Comfort the Bereaved

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The Rebbe offers two parallel meditations from which those who are bereaved — who mourn for a dear departed, can take profound comfort.

A Pool of Fire: The Kohen Gadol

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The human kohen gadol is one who has been imparted a greater measure of holiness than his more mundane fellows. The kohen in G-d is G-d’s “holiness”.

Matos: Religious Violence Part II

Weekly Op-Ed •July 30th, 2005• 2 Comments

The context behind waging war in Biblical historical events and the Torah’s perspective thereon, as seen in Parshat Matot in the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar).

Pinchas: Religious Violence Part I

Weekly Op-Ed •July 21st, 2005• 1 Comment

Pinchas, in Parsaht Pinchas, is a peaceful, selflessness zealot & exemplary in the face of current politico-religious tensions, radicalism and liberalism.

Matot-Masei: Tzugekumene

Weekly Op-Ed •July 15th, 2004• 0 Comments

Response to a provocative letter: ‘The feeling of “us” and “them” was an undercurrent in the interactions between FFB’s and BT’s or non-observant Jews’.

Nasso: Jerusalem Under Siege

Weekly Op-Ed •June 12th, 2003• 0 Comments

What if we’re to find out the Middle East is indeed in the midst of religious war; one that is threatening the entire world? That this really is about G-d?

Eikev-Nachamu: From Lebanon to Jerusalem – Diary

July 25th, 2002•

As he travels around Israel Rabbi Jacobson rediscovers all the historic sites that the world has tried to bulldoze over.

Matot-Masei: Three Weeks of Pain, Seven of Comfort, & Two of Return

July 4th, 2002•

Parshat Matot-Masei: 3 Weeks of Pain, 7 of Comfort & 2 of Return. Understanding the 3 Weeks of mourning in a chassidic discourse by Reb Hillel of Paritch.