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By the Numbers
17 Wonderful and Wacky Things Jews Do With Eggs

You will certainly learn something you did not know!
10 Questions: Take the Musaf Quiz

What do you know about Musaf?
Your Questions
The Rebbe's Tips for a Safe (& Holy) Car

The Rebbe advised that a prayer book (Siddur), Psalms (Tehillim) and Tanya should be kept in the car.
Is Deli Jewish?

For many people, there is nothing more "Jewish" than pastrami on rye. But is it really so?
The Freeman Files
How the Baal Shem Tov and Alter Rebbe Changed Everything

For millennia, these were secrets, only to be revealed to a select few. What changed that allowed the Baal Shem Tov to reveal them, and his student's disciple to open the floodgates?
Voices
What I Told a Sweet Group of Childlike Adults

This week, I met a group of adults who, in some respects, will remain children forever.
His Last Act of Kindness Before He Was Murdered

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Pash, of one of the victims of today’s terror attack in Jerusalem.
Parshah
Why Do Bikkurim Require a Basket?

The verse specifically states, "And you shall put them in a basket."
A Wise Heart

Just because someone is smart, doesn’t stop him from doing immature or stupid things . . .
"And these are the laws which you shall set before them..." (Exodus 21:1). The phrase "and these" implies that they are a continuation of what is written before. This is to teach us that just as the laws written above (the Ten Commandment) are from Sinai, so, too, are these (the logical laws of Mishpatim) from Sinai.
— Rashi's commentary
Print Magazine

The Rebbe describes the following as a core teaching of the Baal Shem Tov:

Not only are the pirouettes of a leaf as it falls off a tree,
the quivering of a blade of grass in the wind,
and all the details of the world around you
all brought into being, given life and directed every moment from Above—

but beyond ...