The Value of Doing Business
A human being is a creature that looks at what is and sees the value of what could be. But how does this creature know? And from where does this new value come?
View ArticleMeditation for the Rest of Us
Meditation had once been a jailbreak for the mind’s flight from the body. Now it became a way for the body to join with the mind. In Tanya, the goal of both meditation and prayer is to awaken a sense...
View ArticleHow Does My Mitzvah Help a Soldier in Gaza?
In a single being, locality is secondary. What happens in one part of a living being immediately changes the entire organism. Which is how the Jewish people works as well.
View ArticleThe Tunnels That Rebuilt Jerusalem
Exile and dispersion produced a miracle. It brought out an organic, irreducible oneness of our people that could not otherwise be imagined.
View ArticleHealing Begins at Home
If you don’t know why you’re here, sometimes all you can see is dirt. But once you know your mission, all you see is diamonds.
View ArticleNothing But Fear Itself
A Jew comes to this world to bring light. If so, what are we doing fighting this ugly war? This is not who we are.
View ArticleBecoming Alive
The eighteenth of Elul, or Chai Elul, is a celebrated day on the Chabad calendar. It is the birthday of both the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Chassidic movement, and the Alter Rebbe, founder of the...
View ArticleThe Whole World In Our Hands
What is the job of the human being? It is to give the world meaning. And without meaning, the world can barely be said to exist.
View ArticleSukkology 101
Instead of a list of dos and don’ts, we start with five simple rules and learn how they unfold as a harmony of wisdom in a physical structure.
View ArticleHow Can I Pray to a G-d I Can’t See?
You’ve got a wall, a chair and a self and all that is all very concrete, occupying real, hi-definition space. Then you’ve got this infinite, invisible G‑d. And you’ve got to fit Him somewhere in there....
View ArticleWhat Makes You Think the World Is Getting Better?
From the outside, you see nausea, cranky moods and a swelling belly. From the inside, you see an entire being miraculously forming—and you still have no idea how that baby’s going to make it out of...
View ArticleGuilt, the Party-Pooper
Imagine you’re making this wild bar mitzvah party with all your friends who brought a whole pile of gifts—and there’s one nudnik there standing next to you and kvetching, “What a lousy party. Your...
View ArticleRetroPhone
Ari 's latest develpment is in communications technology, enabling communication with the past. It takes someone from the past to tell you where you're headed in the present.
View ArticleG-d Without Purpose
If G‑d is not to be a dangerous idea, G‑d must be good. But that would seem to be a small G‑d, a defined G‑d, limited by the parameters of goodness. How can we believe in a G‑d that contains all of...
View ArticleTransforming the World: A text based class
/**/ This class is presented in partnership with JNET - The Jewish Learning Network Click here for follow-along source sheet.
View ArticleeXtreme Menorah Lighting
With the aid of a 3D molecular printer, Ari may have replicated the original Chanukah miracle. Or has he? Just how paradoxical is this miracle?
View ArticleChanukah Forever
There's a leak in the system. Some warriors punched a hole in the box over two thousand years ago, and every year, at this time, it leaks again. We're hoping that this year it won't stop.
View ArticleI Came To My Garden, Chapter Five
A fresh, very readable adaptation of chapter five of the classic maamar, Basi LeGani.
View ArticleGood Beyond Reason
/**/ This class is presented in partnership with JNET - The Jewish Learning Network This live class airs Thursday night, January 29th at 8:00 pm ET Click here for follow-along source sheet.
View ArticleThe Sixth Millennium
If we map time, can we tell where it is taking us? The results are just too uncanny to be written off as coincidence.
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