http://www.baismenachem.com/magazine/default.asp?aid=768895 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, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=753018 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=753018 Here's an experiment to try the next time you meet someone—it could be an annoying telemarketer over the phone or a neighbor in the local grocery store... Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=766786 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=766786 The door swung open and Rabbi Shlomo walked out and began to pace in the waiting room. Suddenly, he loudly exclaimed: "Young man, young man, what will be if indeed there is a G‑d in this world?" Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=745614 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=745614 I gave him the list. Two pages long. Everything from, "How do I know the Torah is from G‑d and that it's true?" to "Why did G‑d create scorpions and mosquitoes?" Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=741741 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=741741 It seems that what people fear more than anything is not crime, illness or even death. The greatest fear is their own feelings, especially the "big three": loneliness, helplessness and insignificance. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=755986 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=755986 You know who they are—children who lose everything: homework assignments, library books, mittens, wallets and hats. An endless source of frustration for parents and teachers, "losers" are the most frustrated of all: they waste their own precious time and lose objects they value. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=3178 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=3178 Jacob is born clutching Esau's heel; their father favors the hunter, their mother the scholar, and the former sells his birthright to the latter for a pot of red lentil stew. Thus the stage is set for a cosmic struggle which still engulfs us today Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=446287 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=446287 Some of us thrive as a result of a challenging environment; our struggles refine our characters and make us even greater people. And sometimes, no matter what we do, we cannot seem to rise above the circumstances of our birth... Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=446318 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=446318 I myself am lucky to be alive. I remember going to pay a house visit on a family in my congregation and being attacked by their young son who had an AK-47 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=15573 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=15573 Ishmael's mother was the Egyptian Hagar, while Isaac was born to the righteous Sarah. But Jacob and Esau were <i>twins</i>; what explain their divergent characters? Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=99726 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=99726 Imagine what Jacob must have felt like dressing in Esau's hunting clothes, pasting artificial hair on his arms and the back of his neck, stealing into his father's room and conniving to receive the blessings intended for his brother. Whatever for does Jacob need "the dew of heaven and the fat of the land," anyway? Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=767028 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=767028 Happily contemplating the way our family was now growing on the fast track, I didn't honestly consider the second ultrasound as anything more than a technicality... Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=768941 http://www.baismenachem.com/article.asp?aid=768941 Whether by plane, train or car, thousands of Jewish activists from all over the world made their way to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., for the much-anticipated 25th annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST