http://www.chabaducla.com/magazine/default.asp?aid=717885 The Chabad.org weekly online magazine features articles on current events and events in the Jewish Calendar. It also features a daily thought, daily quote and our acclaimed week at a glance. Copyright 2008, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=713763 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=713763 "Go find someone else to bother," he shot back at me. "I want nothing to do with you!" My head was spinning; I was hurt inside, yet knew I had done nothing disrespectful. Obviously, what I represent—being a religious Jew, wearing a beard and a kippah on my head— upset him so. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=698921 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=698921 I'm all for happiness, but to be fully human means to be able to acknowledge and express the full range of emotions which G‑d gave us. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=707989 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=707989 People scream in order to be heard. The thinking seems to go: "He/she isn't listening; I need to say it again and again, louder and louder. That way I will get my message across." Unfortunately the only message we get across that way is, "<I>You </I>are my enemy." Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=715028 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=715028 When you are insecure about something, your haircut, tattoo, or choice of clothing, then others perceive your discomfort. But a person who is confident in his manner and stride, and about what he represents, gives off an aura of security that doesn't force others to do a "double take." Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=715520 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=715520 If you are a wise boss, you know that the way to get the most out of your employees is to make them feel in charge of their own destiny, steering their independent area of jurisdiction. Maybe you've even learned this trick of the trade from the Ultimate Boss... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=2272 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=2272 About two mountains, from which blessings and curses are announced; a home for G-d, and the difference between holiness and chosenness; meat, blood, false prophets, idolaters, kosher signs, tithes, pilgrimages, and the special Jewish idea of charity Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=86070 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=86070 "Blessing" is a very important word. So is "Curse", "You" and "Today". But the most important word in the sentence is the three-letter verb that opens the parshah: "See" Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=412491 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=412491 The food we consume affects us on a soul-level, influencing our character and affecting our natural tendencies Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=86077 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=86077 From man I expect good and bad. From G-d I expected only good. Until I learned about the animal sacrifices. Apparently G-d actually wants them. Imagine, a place set aside for slaughter -- in a temple! Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=556968 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=556968 The Sabbatical year is associated with two mitzvot: 1) The land must be left unplowed and fallow. 2) All personal debts are cancelled. There is a connection between these two precepts Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=716853 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=716853 There was no way I was going to be able to deal with the totality of the situation all at once. I couldn't come to grips with the loss while she was still here. That was too much to ask of myself. I had to stay in the moment, to appreciate every second I still had with her. There would be time later, when it was reality, to face the loss... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=412608 http://www.chabaducla.com/article.asp?aid=412608 G-d has given two signs which differentiate between kosher animals and non-kosher animals. These signs are guides by which we can try to keep our lives on a level that will make us kosher, and even holy... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST