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The Big Picture |
| Fiddler on the Roof's enormous popularity has nothing to do with metaphysical content. Nonetheless, we find one of the most enigmatic issues in religious thought expressed by Tevye the milkman . . .
By Yaakov Brawer | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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| When you turn it over a few times and rub it between your fingers, everything in our world turns out to contain something of the infinite.
By Tzvi Freeman | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| Why was G‑d's voice confined to the Sanctuary?
By Yitschak Meir Kagan | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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Personal |
| I would recall the bare beauty of the tree, and wonder again why G‑d had left the tree upside-down. What could an inverted tree possibly contribute to the world?
By Rhona Lewis | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| Exhausted and breathless, I couldn't sing anymore. But I didn't have to; the first cry of the baby as he emerged into the world was a beautiful song in itself...
By Elana Mizrahi | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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| Dignity. What a word. What a concept. What exactly did it mean? How could you lose it? Where can you find it?
By Jay Litvin | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| 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 . . .
By Matt Lipeles | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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Recovery |
| It seems that the sages knew quite a bit about alcoholics. Who has been as ready to find fault in others as we have been?
By Rabbi Ben A. | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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Feature Video |
| Renowned Nazi-hunter Tuvia Friedman reveals the Rebbe's role in his life's work (circa 1970). | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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Stories to Share |
| Just as they had celebrated their marriage with joy, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai told the couple, so should their divorce be celebrated in joy.
Midrash Rabbah, Shir HaShirim 1 | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| "Just a minute! Wait!" cried the young man, panting to catch his breath. "You can't go yet! You must tell me the answer!"
By Tuvia Bolton | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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| Try as he might, the storyteller could not remember a single tale. Perhaps he was going mad?
By Tuvia Bolton | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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Info Please |
| Although the Jubilee year is currently not observed, the reasons for this are complex and involve many different opinions.
By Baruch S. Davidson | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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| My son is turning thirteen in January, and my daughter will become twelve two months later. We would like to have a joint celebration . . .
By Chani Benjaminson | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| Most authorities deem a computer screen and its contents, even the name of G‑d or words of Torah, to have no sanctity.
By Vidal Bekerman | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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On Being Jewish |
| There are many Jews who don't observe anything Jewish, yet the rabbis demand full observance to become a Jew. Is that fair?
By Tzvi Freeman | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| How can self-interested human beings love one another altrusitically?
By Mendel Kalmenson | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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| I stood outside staring at the dollar bill. I wondered why he wanted me to take his money. He could make a donation himself, right?
By Samantha Barnett | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| The Talmud suggests that because the nazirite denies himself pleasure, he is considered "sinful." But why should it be wrong to deny oneself?
By Yossy Goldman | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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| The power and beauty of Jewish confession is not that we shame ourselves before others, but that we shame the evil inclination before our true selves.
By Mendel Kalmenson | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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Focus on the Priestly Blessing |
| Who blesses and when, the preparations, the procedure, the congregation's role, and the Kabbalah behind it all.
By Naftali Silberberg | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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| This wonderful, inspiring tune for Birkat Kohanim originates with the famed "kapelye" (musical group) of the second Chabad rebbe, Rabbi Dovber. By Avraham Fried | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| The kohanim remove their shoes and extend their hands, fingers parted and palms stretched outwards. What is the deeper significance of this celestial ritual?
By Lazer Gurkow | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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From Our Favorite Lectures |
| Get a detailed overview of the weekly Torah portion sewn together with keen insights and timely life messages. By Baruch Epstein | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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| Lesson 6: Commitment The attribute of Yesod (literally "foundation") is the ability to make a decision and commit to carrying it out. By Chana Rachel Schusterman | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBrown.gif) |
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| Experience the gems of the Parshah with the classic commentaries and a Kabbalistic twist. By Elimelech Silberberg | ![](http://01.chabad-centers.org/images/email/html_template/arrowBlue.gif) |
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Parshah in a Nutshell |
| The wayward wife, the life of the Nazir (no grape products, long hair, no contact with the dead), blessing priests and donor princes . . .
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