http://www.chabad.org/magazine/default.asp?aid=703217 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. http://www.chabad.org/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabad.org Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=699182 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=699182 She's only seven years old, and the doctors say she has lost her battle with cystic fibrosis, that she will live only a few more weeks. But for some reason, nobody has stopped praying... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=703168 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=703168 Sure, there are all those events that happened, the weather, geography, DNA. But we are the ones to string them together with meaning and direction. There is no story to life, until we tell it... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=702484 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=702484 They'd married less than a year ago, following seven months of story-book courtship. It was a match made in Heaven. Hell, I heard him mutter... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=703652 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=703652 His cousin has one, his friends have it, but we have no intention of buying him one. How will I explain it to him? Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=703099 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=703099 Without a doubt, we have experienced tremendous hardship and pain throughout our history—more so perhaps than other nations. But Jewish history is anything but tragic... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=479888 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=479888 A sin can only be rectified if the guilty person recognizes his guilt. We suffer most from our "unknown" mistakes. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=296691 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=296691 Fathers, daughters and husbands; vengeance and war spoils; the east and west banks of the Jordan -- plus what it all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=296930 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=296930 The stick, it can be said, is a piece of tree that has paid the price of leaving home. The stick, it can also be said, is one who has reaped the rewards of leaving home... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=402063 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=402063 The battle against Midian described in the Torah is a crucial struggle which continues in our own time... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=147952 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=147952 A fellow who somehow got himself locked in a department store over a holiday weekend decided to vent his frustrations by swapping price tags on the merchandise.... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=402058 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=402058 Sometimes the question is raised whether the Torah scholar is, in some sense, "escaping" from the real world Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=296931 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=296931 The laws governing the annulment of vows distinguishes between an <i>arus</i> ('betrothed") and a <i>baal</i> ("husband"). On a deeper level, these laws describe two modes of spiritual life Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST