If you didn’t know that the Torah had a sense of humor, you probably missed the narrative at the center of this week’s Parsha – the legendary tale of two highly influential leaders, Balak and Bilaam who rapidly slipped from grace and glory into the depth of shame and depravity.
Before his historic first meeting with newly-elected U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Washington, Begin asked me to arrange a meeting with the Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York.
“Shabbat across the Atlantic,” CTeen’s first annual European shabbaton, proved that friendship runs much deeper than language and mentality barriers. Driving in from cities as far as 16 hours away, teens from Austria, Germany, Russia and France flocked to downtown Berlin for an uplifting weekend of Jewish pride and friendship.
With a total area of 147,046 square miles, Montana—the fourth-largest state in the country after Alaska, Texas and California—is slightly larger than Japan.
The women make up the Secret Service Division of the Army of Hashem. Rochel Holzkenner uses the concept of the mirrors that the women brought for the Beis Hamikdash as the feminine modality: materialism with spiritual potential.
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