Lubavitcher Rebbe; adapted by Yanki Tauber

When the Torah instructs us to "follow the majority,"1 it seems to simply reiterate a most basic fact of life. Yet every so often we are confronted with a defiant exception to this rule. How does a single split atom radically transform an innumerable quan...

How can a unit of time be defined as a day of rest, the very antithesis of time?

Light travels through time and space to ever duskier vistas, to increasingly alien environments. A journey from midday in Jerusalem to the darkest reaches of a world awaiting redemption.

Judah the son of Teima would say: "... run like a gazelle ... to do the will of your Father in Heaven." And the Zohar comments, "The gazelle is unique in that when he runs, he turns his head back to the place from which he is running." Where is he running...

[Upon reclaiming the Holy Temple from the Greeks], the Hashmonians first made the menorah out of iron poles plated with tin. When they grew wealthier, they made a menorah of silver. When they grew wealthier still, they made a menorah of gold.

The sukkah is a makeshift hut in which the Jew dwells during the seven-day festival of Sukkot that remind us of how G‑d sheltered us with the miraculous “clouds of glory” in our forty-year journey through the desert from Egypt to the Holy Land. Yet the su...

A maid's child once dirtied the royal palace. Said the king: "Let his mother come and clean up her child's filth." By the same token, G‑d says: "Let the [red] heifer atone for the deed of the [golden] calf."

Confinement always precedes a new beginning. Consider the circumstances of every birth. Thus the prophet Ezekiel compares the experience of galut (our current state of exile and spiritual displacement) to a pregnancy, and the redemption to the birth that ...

The needle is a fellow with a mission: to wed disjointed fragments into a whole cloth.

Many claim to intuitively know what is right in life. They reject the notion that one must transcend a subjective self to achieve harmony between body and soul. They argue that the body and the soul are complementary parts of an integral self, requiring n...