Existing or living?

What is the difference between living and existing? We all exist. Everyone and everything in this world exists.  But existing does not mean we are living. We can go through all the motions of life: we can pray, we can work, we can do our responsibilities and duties as parents, spouses, friends, children etc. But

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Chanukah sameach!

Chanukah commemorates the victory of the small group of Jewish fighters, the Maccabees, against the Greeks who defiled the Beit Hamikdash. After winning, the Jews then entered the Beit Hamikdash to kindle the menorah and found miraculously one flask of pure oil with the seal of the Cohen gadol still on it. But how does

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BECOMING HAPPY

This year there are two months of Adar because it is a Jewish leap year. And we know when there are two months of Adar, as the Lubavitcher Rebbe said, the idea of simcha is even stronger. The Rebbe said that simcha poretz geder, breaks barriers. And since there is a concept of botul bshishim

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LAST DAYS OF PESACH

The first days of Pesach (Passover) emphasize the redemption from Egypt (Mitzraim).  But the emphasis of the last two days Pesach is on the future redemption with the coming of Moshiach.  We eat a Moshiach seuda on the eighth day of Pesach (before nightfall we gather our family and we drink four cups of wine

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DOUBTS AND FAITH

Every person sometimes has doubts in faith. We are only human: this is normal .  But, there is a person who uses doubts to seek his creator and turn his eyes and heart to the heavens, and then his faith grows stronger. And there is a man who takes advantage of doubts to justify his distance

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GIMMEL TAMUZ

Today is the special day of Gimmel Tamuz, the day that our Rebbe, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was concealed from us until the coming of Moshiach.   But what can we do to connect with the Rebbe? We can learn the Rebbe’s teachings of chassidus, follow the Rebbe’s ways and fulfill the Rebbe’s directives. Perhaps the most

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