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Vaeira 5767 - January 19, 2007

Chassid in Wonderland

Parallel universes, supernatural phenomena, and a world where good always prevails. Is this Grimm's fairy tales, or a chassidic text?
Parshah
Va’era in a Nutshell
G-d promises to redeem the Israelites from their oppression. Moses and Aaron repeatedly demand of Pharaoh to let the nation leave. The Egyptians experience the first seven plagues: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils and hail.
Deciphering Nature's Code

What do Pascal's Triangle, the Golden Proportion, bee populations, flower pedals, pine cone spirals, and the hexagonal-shaped scales in the pineapple have in common?
I Thought I Was a Girl (Not an Object)

This guy is acting as if I am a separate creation. As if I have nothing to take personally. He is effacing my gender. The lack of embarrassment is startling...
The Mystic Mind
The 24th of Tevet - this year, January 14, 2007 - marks the 194th anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad Chassidism
Story
The Passing of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

“If Bonaparte will be victorious,” the rebbe wrote, “Jewish wealth will increase, and the prestige of the Jewish people will be raised; but their hearts will disintegrate and be distanced from their Father in Heaven . . .”
I no longer see a table, a chair, a lamp... only the letters of the Divine utterances [which give existence and life to the physical existence]
— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi to his grandson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, shortly before his passing on Tevet 24, 5583 (1812)
Print Magazine

Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.

In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.

These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”

Here’...