Redeeming Sins, Redeeming Mitzvot
Selling one’s sins and mitzvot – an intrinsic or extrinsic connection.
Author: Editor
The Essence of a Jew
The essence of a Jew is that no matter his sins, he never abandons his identity as a Jew.
Depression and Hell
Depression can be a living hell – quite literally. Here Reb Tzadok explains that it absolves a person of sin.
Israel’s Defense Is Not a Right
Whenever Israel talks of its security, it declares that it is has a right to defense, that is an axiomatic error. It is time to change the narrative.
Sleep in the Sukka
Between warmth and cold
The Sukka and Anger
The 4th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, had an assistant named Yosef Mordechai—who also served his father, the Tzemach Tzedek.[1] Once, this Yosef Mordechai, having become agitated in the kitchen, angrily entered the...
Different Songs
The following statement about song was made by the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn:[1] The “voice awakens intent” is a statement expressed in various places[2]: “The chassidim of the Alter Rebbe, the...
Parshat Ha-azinu – Close to Heaven
By Rabbi Dovid Markel This week’s parsha begins (Devarim 32:1) “Listen, O heavens, and I will speak! And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!” The Sifri on this points out...
No Time to Sin
The verse (Vayikra 23:40) states concerning the taking of the four species on the first day of Sukkot: “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day, the fruit of the hadar tree,...
