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 Tzvi Freeman, a senior editor at Chabad.org, is also author of several books, including Wisdom to Heal the Earth. He writes Chabad.org's highly popular Daily Dose of Wisdom. Rabbi Freeman served for five years as mashpia of the West Coast Rabbinic Seminary in Los Angeles, and currently resides in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Subscribe to regular updates of Rabbi Freeman's writing with the Freeman Files subscription.
The Story Behind the Famous Parable
The Parable On the Shabbat just before the Jewish month of Elul 5557 See marei mekomot to the source below. (August 22, 1797), Rabbi Schneur Zalman told a parable of a king in the field—what we would call today “the countryside.” The parable rings a littl...
What does it actually mean?
There’s nothing that matches the joy when a lost child returns home. And you are that child. Because your soul began within G‑d. And she descended into this world to inhabit a body and live as though a stranger to the heavens, captive of a futile dream, j...
The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional responses of the beast within you.
On the outside, Torah is water. On the inside, it is fire. The text, the instructions, the practical side of Torah--that is water. People come to water. When they are thirsty, they gather around. But what if you have no thirst for Torah? What if you find ...
Click here for a printable PDF of Chapter 10. Conquest Now that we know of this internal battle, let’s see how it plays out as five possible states of war and peace. We’ll start with wars that are won. Let’s discuss a person who empowers his divine soul a...
Click here for a printable PDF of Chapter 10. Key Words and Concepts You Will Need For This Chapter Bitul (adj. batel): A state of insignificance within a greater context. A grain of salt is batel within a large soup. A candle’s light is batel held up to ...
The cardinal sins of Torah demanded only 70 years of exile, while hatred takes almost 2000 years!
Pleasure is an abandonment of the awareness that you are here, that you exist.
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