ב"ה
Pekudei 5765 - March 11, 2005
Sixty Days of Purim
Purim, as everyone knows, falls in the month of Adar. Actually, according to the Kabbalists, it's the other way around: Adar rises in Purim...
Purim, as everyone knows, falls in the month of Adar. Actually, according to the Kabbalists, it's the other way around: Adar rises in Purim...
Parshah
Pekudei / Shekalim
The priestly garments are made. The Tabernacle is completed, and Moses erects it and anoints it with holy oil. Moses anoints Aaron and his sons (the priests) with oil. A cloud appears over the Tabernacle, signifying G-d’s presence.
The priestly garments are made. The Tabernacle is completed, and Moses erects it and anoints it with holy oil. Moses anoints Aaron and his sons (the priests) with oil. A cloud appears over the Tabernacle, signifying G-d’s presence.
Story
The Break-In
The prayer quorum the rebbe had assembled included ruffians, burglars and other types of people of ill repute...
The prayer quorum the rebbe had assembled included ruffians, burglars and other types of people of ill repute...
How Do We Know Whom To Believe?
When we find a teacher inspiring and compelling, when we are enthused by people who seem spiritual and pious, how can we be sure that they are not charismatic charlatans preying on our vulnerability for their own selfish gain?
When we find a teacher inspiring and compelling, when we are enthused by people who seem spiritual and pious, how can we be sure that they are not charismatic charlatans preying on our vulnerability for their own selfish gain?
Living
On Being a Mentsch
Consciously or sub-consciously, we all identify as "human." Does that inspire us to strive higher, to be a mentsch? Or does it allow us to relax our standards, recognizing that we're "only human"?
Consciously or sub-consciously, we all identify as "human." Does that inspire us to strive higher, to be a mentsch? Or does it allow us to relax our standards, recognizing that we're "only human"?
The Artisan
Shaping/ vessels/ of light/ ... Listening to/ that voice which speaks/ of beginnings/ and endings/ as one
Shaping/ vessels/ of light/ ... Listening to/ that voice which speaks/ of beginnings/ and endings/ as one
A chassid creates an environment. If he does not, he had better check his own baggage carefully, to see whether his own affairs are in order. The very fact that he fails to create an environment should make him as broken as a splinter. He must demand of himself: What am I doing in this world?
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch (1860-1920)
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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