http://www.chabadtexas.org/magazine/default.asp?aid=718403 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, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=4351 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=4351 On the 1st of Elul, Moses climbed Mount Sinai for a third forty-day stay--forty cosmic days which unleashed the power of <i>teshuvah</i> for all generations.... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=293704 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=293704 Introspection and stocktaking, mercy and forgiveness, sounding horns and whispered psalms, prayer, charity and repentance... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=56887 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=56887 There are "cities of refuge" in space, and there is a city of refuge in time... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=90040 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=90040 How does G-d prepare for His annual reelection? Does He just sit up there in His "palace" trusting in our good sense to proclaim Him king once again? Does He go after the vote, mingling with the masses, pressing the flesh, kissing babies? Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=718640 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=718640 When the two pupils approached, they saw their master sitting in the snow, weeping and praying. They hurriedly departed from that place Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=421509 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=421509 Imagine if you could turn your very worst liabilities into your most precious assets--using both cutting edge science and state-of-the-art religion, i.e., Judaism Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=710792 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=710792 During services today my three year old daughter ran into the Shul, parading in my wife's high heel shoes. She is presenting graphically what we are all trying to do emotionally and spiritually. She is working on elevating herself just a few inches. Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=716526 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=716526 Standing stoically in her usual regal manner she continued: "My dear children, when the Gestapo come and get us, I do not know what will be. One thing I ask of you. Please take care of each other." Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=710600 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=710600 We have a tendency to focus on our imperfections. But how many of us are equally honest about our strengths? Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=720680 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=720680 My friends in recovery have a saying:"We are only as sick as our secrets.” I keep on hearing this, but I have a hard time accepting this idea. I have always wondered: After all, isn't it important to have some privacy? Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=2278 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=2278 "Justice" -- the very concept is said to be a Jewish contribution to the world. A glance at this week's Parshah (equality before the law, due process, protection of criminals from vigilante vengeance, curbs on the behavior of kings, rules and ethics in warfare...) shows why Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=86074 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=86074 One of the most fascinating clauses in the Torah's criminal justice system is the law of the "indefensible criminal." If the evidence against the accused is so compelling that not a single one of the 23-member tribunal is inclined to argue in his favor, he cannot be convicted! Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=87781 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=87781 Some folks think of people much as we think of cars on a highway: Each with its own origin and destination, relating to one other only to negotiate lane changes and left-hand turns. But people are not cars Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=720026 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=720026 The Torah describes man as the "tree of the fields." I've personally never understood the analogy. What character traits or growth-ring patterns can a tree achieve to compare to ourselves? Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=484229 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=484229 Can a bribed judge be impartial? How about if the "bribe" was given on the condition that the judge issues a fair verdict -- no matter who it will favor? Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=413801 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=413801 The <i>asheira</i> was a beautiful tree which was so enchanting that people used to worship it... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=413826 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=413826 The biblical laws of war have much to teach us about the routines of life in every age Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=719289 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=719289 When they clapped after the lullaby, it reminded me of the sound of dirt being shoveled over a grave... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=417779 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=417779 The collective vessel of the people of Israel is an organism unto itself that has its own life path and journey from birth to maturity... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=719291 http://www.chabadtexas.org/article.asp?aid=719291 Despite the distance of a few feet between us, we are worlds apart. A few meters away, ominous even at rest, sits a parked bulldozer. It casts an enormous shadow over the playground. I look at the mother, the bulldozer. The mother. The bulldozer... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST