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Beshalach 5765 - January 21, 2005
Call Me Classic
It’s got to be one of the toughest marketing problems of all time: selling Orthodox Judaism. You’ve got all this long black stuff. And then there are the hats . . .
It’s got to be one of the toughest marketing problems of all time: selling Orthodox Judaism. You’ve got all this long black stuff. And then there are the hats . . .
Parshah
Beshalach in a Nutshell
Pharaoh changes his mind, and chases the Israelites. Trapped between their pursuers and the Reed Sea, the Israelites panic, and G‑d splits the sea for them. In the desert G‑d provides water, manna and quails. Two portions of manna must be collected on Fridays, enough for Friday and the Sabbath.
Pharaoh changes his mind, and chases the Israelites. Trapped between their pursuers and the Reed Sea, the Israelites panic, and G‑d splits the sea for them. In the desert G‑d provides water, manna and quails. Two portions of manna must be collected on Fridays, enough for Friday and the Sabbath.
Why Don't Miracles Happen Today?
I don't mean the "miracle of childbirth" and "every sunrise is a miracle" -- I'm talking about splitting seas and voices-from-heaven kind of miracles. Why did the people of the Bible get all the special effects and we don't?
I don't mean the "miracle of childbirth" and "every sunrise is a miracle" -- I'm talking about splitting seas and voices-from-heaven kind of miracles. Why did the people of the Bible get all the special effects and we don't?
Jonathan's Time Machine
Jonathan builds a time machine out of a cardboard box, aluminum foil, duct-tape, and six explosions. But Rabbi Kadoozy has his own ideas about time travel
Jonathan builds a time machine out of a cardboard box, aluminum foil, duct-tape, and six explosions. But Rabbi Kadoozy has his own ideas about time travel
Miriam: Tambourines of Rebellion
You feel the pain and bitterness, even more deeply than the others, yet you carry in your heart an inextinguishable flame of faith, hope and optimism. You are Miriam, the quintessential Jewish woman.
You feel the pain and bitterness, even more deeply than the others, yet you carry in your heart an inextinguishable flame of faith, hope and optimism. You are Miriam, the quintessential Jewish woman.
A Night of Opportunity
The righteous and the wicked, the wise and the foolish, the leaders alongside the lay people -- all were running about collecting the treasures of Egypt. One man, however, did not join the frenzy.
The righteous and the wicked, the wise and the foolish, the leaders alongside the lay people -- all were running about collecting the treasures of Egypt. One man, however, did not join the frenzy.
The Rebbe
Yud Shevat
The 10th of Shevat marks the 54th anniversary of the Rebbe's assumption of the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch in 1951. Click here for an overview of the Rebbe's life and teachings; for stories and personal accounts, click here and here.
Shevat 10 is also the 55th yahrtzeit of the Rebbe's father-in-law and predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch. For more on Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, click here. For a sampling of his teachings, click here.
The 10th of Shevat marks the 54th anniversary of the Rebbe's assumption of the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch in 1951. Click here for an overview of the Rebbe's life and teachings; for stories and personal accounts, click here and here.
Shevat 10 is also the 55th yahrtzeit of the Rebbe's father-in-law and predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch. For more on Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, click here. For a sampling of his teachings, click here.
The day begins with Modeh Ani ("I acknowledge before You, living and eternal King, that You restored my soul to me; great is Your faithfulness"). This is said before the morning washing of the hands, even while the hands are ritually impure (and all other prayers cannot be said). The deeper reason for this is that all the impurities in the world do not defile a Jew's "I acknowledge" before G-d; he might lack one thing or another, but his Modeh Ani remains intact.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe (Hayom Yom for Shevat 11)
Print Magazine
Looking at your world from Above, all is good.
Looking at your world from within, things don’t always look so nice.
Until you connect your world below to the world above. Then the goodness flows downward without distortion.
How do you make that connection? By clinging tightly above.
By putting all your trust in G‑d.
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