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Devarim 5766 - July 28, 2006

To Be a Body

Imagine a person trapped under a collapsed building. There is a small fissure in the rubble--just large enough to allow him to extend his hand to his rescuers. We are that hand
Parshah
Devarim in a Nutshell
For thirty-seven days Moses talks: recalling, reminding, rebuking, warning, promising; about the revelation at Sinai and their journeys through the desert, about spies and wars and victories and the Land, and what it’s like to serve as a leader of G‑d’s chosen people.
The Bris

Why can't they just allow us our little strip of land and leave us alone?
Story
The Rabbi and the Cow

There was a rabbi, a very good and pious man, who wanted to see justice in the world . . .
Current
Fearing Our Own Strength

Israel will fight back until Hamas and Hezbollah accept a cease fire, at least for the time being. Yet that is exactly what we must fear...
Our Dialogue With G-d

The second level emerges when Torah becomes not just an acquisition of knowledge and a subject-object encounter—an “I” facing “it”—but a personal meeting place, an “I” facing “you,” or better yet, a “we” relationship . . .
Current
Lubavitch Rabbis Help Wounded, Bereaved Families In Israel Crisis

As three members of the Mor family of Safed were released from the hospital Sunday, one question crossed Rabbi Menachem Kutner's mind: Where would they go?
On Shabbat Chazon ("Shabbat of Vision" -- the Shabbat preceding the Ninth of Av), we are each granted a vision of the Third Temple
— Chassidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Barditchov
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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