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Weekly Tanya lecture'vdeo: The Epistle of Faith

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Hallel with a Blessing on Yom Ha’atzmaut

It is a Torah-based mitzvah to celebrate days of salvation when Israel is saved from death,and so it is with Yom Ha'atzmaut .

We did it… No, you did not!

An email advertisement is the shock that motivated the writer to ask readers to think again about what they are being enticed to do.Op-ed.

Moshiach the Leper

What shames you most: The story of the 4 lepers in our own lives.

Tazria: Shiloh and the Birth-Offerings

Israel's first Chief Rabbi: True morality cannot sanction a mechanical Temple service, disconnected from the people and their lives

The proportionate punishment for malicious speech - lashon hara

Why must only the slanderer be afflicted with tsaraat nd dwell alone outside the camp?

Shabbat beShabbato on the Parasha

A selected offering of the writings of various well known Torah commentators on the parasha.

Rosh Chodesh Iyar Torah Essay

There is something deep going on this month, something that touches on the character of the Jewish people and our relationship with God.

Rabbi.Hirsch on the parsha: Why connect childbirth and impurity?

What is the significance of this connection?

Talking Parsha - Tazria-Metzora: The most important Mitzvah?!

Why does the Torah mention the commandment of circumcision only incidentally? Why not expand more on it, if it's so important?

A call for Jewish Unity

Israel was created only 3 years after six million innocent Jews were brutally murdered. Let that memory bring us together.

The nights as well

How do we lead a life so as to be worthy of the freedom we have been given?

Eretz Yisrael in the Parsha: Three camps of holiness

Young Israeli Torah scholars in Religious Zionist yeshivas: Why do the laws of tzara’at of houses apply exclusively in Eretz Yisrael?

Supporting a Jew in need

The Cohen went out towards the person in need of help, even if that person was hesitant. That is still our responsiblity to society.

The Halakhic State

The headline alone must send shivers down some people’s spines.

Re-Torahment: A Torah approach to retirement

Is the Torah really silent about today’s most sought-after personal financial goal?

The state of Jewish Education in America before the Holocaust

First in a series about the rise of Jewish and Torah education in America after the Holocaust.

Where was God during the Holocaust?

Since the Holocaust, the feeling is that no matter how hard people try; no matter how moral they want to be, in the end the monster wins.

Monthly Emunah Essay: The path to nobility

The leadership role is not without fear and to be our own hero is no less significant than being someone else’s hero.

Kaddish by women

There are voices on both sides of the debate.

Combing for sins

Being clear of sin is the goal for both the guf and neshamah in anticipation of the final resurrection.

Why Jewish leaders refuse to listen

The Zohar says the Spies were afraid that they would lose their positions of authority in Eretz Yisrael. Nothing has changed.

How can it be?

How did this tiny, persecuted dispersed people survive and come home after two thousand years? How did they survive at all? Op-ed.

Psalms 81: The strange god within us

Israel's first Chief Rabbi: Strange gods “within you”? The Sages taught that this refers to evil impulses, particularly uncontrolled anger:

How to become a kosher human being

Do you have standards? Do you challenge yurself? How do you know if you are alive?

The message of Nachshon, the hero of the Red Sea crossing

From Shvi'i shel Pesach to Yom Ha'atzmaut to Shavuot, there is a theme for us to emulate as we leave the Pesach season: Nachshon's faith.

Eretz Yisrael in the Parasha: MIshkan vs. Beit Hamikdash

Young religious Zionist scholars on the Holy Land in the parasha and in our prayers.

Office of the UK Chief Rabbi

What is special about the number 8?

Dvar Torah for Parashat Shemini: This week the Chief Rabbi explains the hidden depth of numbers in Jewish teaching.

Insights into the parasha: Why does G-d let us suffer?

Ask the Rabbi about Jewish suffering, why we are called a kingdom of priests, the 8th day of the week, keeping kosher - all in the parasha.

Coming back to Gan Eden

How the eighth day of the Mishkan is like the day after Creation.

'And they had faith in Hashem and in Moshe, His servant'

Hashem has His sometimes hidden ways to vanquish His enemies and exact revenge upon them.

Salvation from the depths of despair

Moshiach? Seriously? Just a quick read of the newspapers seems to suggest that the promise of Isaiah is only getting farther away.

The Bible at Work: Career coaching in the parasha

Shemini - Moving past the first impression––The halo effect at work

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Still slaves after all these years

It is easier to take the Jews out of slavery than to take slavery out of the Israeli mindset.

Watch: Israel, the UN and Passover - miracles then and now

The miracles accompanying the founding of the Jewish State have parallels in the story of the Jews in Egypt. Filmed in 1955, apt today.

Wine's place in Jewish society and a lesson from the Exodus

What to do about the discovery that the elected leadership is stymied by leftist control of the scientific and economic establishment.

Pesach and Eretz Yisrael

Young Israeli Religious Zionist Torah scholars explore the connection betrween Pesach and Eretz Yisrael.

Shir HaShirim: The four-fold song

Israel's first Chief Rabbi: David’s harp symbolizes the soul’s encounter with God. But there are four different levels of song it played.

Shabbat BeShabbato: A song for our times and more

Read Rabbi Harold Kanotopsky, Rabbi J.B. Soloveutchik zt"l and,Rabbi B. Wein, Rabbi Y. Rimon and others for Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach.

O Dry Bones, can you hear the Word of G-d?

The historical and psychological meaning of Ezekiel's Vision

When the Left becomes Right

“Right” and “left” symbolize, respectively, God’s traits of kindness and strict justice.

Rabbi S.R. Hirsch on the parasha: No Moral Indulgences

Nadav and Avihu: The elites often permit themselves moral laxity but the Torah grants no such indulgences.

'So that you may relate in the ears of your son'

The message of the Exodus as seen by Torah commentators from the Riva to the Slonimer Rebbe.

Two seders - two worlds

Next year in Jerusalem is not “only a song,” it was the dream, hope and prayer of Jews for 2000 years and fulfilled in our time.

I wish I were a simpleton like the one in the Haggadah

The simpleton speaks the truth, but it is a sad truth.

Pesach Haggadah: This is the evil the Egyptians did?

Is this the most terrible thing the Egyptians did? Why does the HaHagaddah bring this Pasuk to explain the "torture" we went through?

Why do we say "next year in Jerusalem" at the Seder?

Jerusalem is not just a place of happiness, it’s a place of elation.

Passover insights from Rav Dov Begun

The Exodus narrative is a love story between the Jewish People and God. Insights on the spiritual meaning of Passover.

The Emergency Haggadah

A shortened version of the Haggadah for medical professionals on a call or the dangerously ill only.

Two Passover Questions

The Seder has fascinated commentators and everyday Jews for centuries. These two questions and their answers are an enlightening approach.

Blood libels

What is behind the blood libels? Are there four sons? Does the afikoman have special powers? And more.

The long view of current events - for the holiday of Redemption

The cognoscenti will realize that we are reliving history..

The alcoholic's Seder

A Tale of Two Cities: Kobe and Barditchov.

Putting the Seder in perspective

The fourth son brings an important message that guides our lives.

Watch: A Psalm of Peace - for the Rebbe's birthday

It is a Chabad tradition to say the psalm whose number is the years since the Rebbe's birth on NIssan 11, so chap.122 is said tonight.