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Shemini

By the Numbers
12 Facts About the Jews of England

From radical hatred to royal honor, their story is truly one of thorns and roses.
10 Questions: Take the Omer Quiz

How much do you know about the special mitzvah we do at this time of year? Find out now!
Your Questions
Why Count the Omer Standing Up?

Although this teaching is not in the Talmud, it is quoted as having originated in the Mishnaic era.
Voices
Gaza Hostage: “How I Found G-d in a Terror Tunnel”
In a lengthy interview, Sasha Troufanov openly discusses how he discovered G-d in Gaza.
Dignity

A classic piece by a Chabad.org author whose Yartzeit is 25 Nisan.
Essay
The Isolationists of Sodom and Gomorrah

It turns out that the greatest need of all is not to be needed, but to need others.
Parshah
The Inner Meaning of Split Hooves and Chewing the Cud

You should not just be going through the motions of love and fear superficially, but it should truly affect you to the core.
Just as a person can be sentenced to death only by a sanhedrin (tribunal) of twenty-three judges, so an ox that kills can be condemned to death only by a sanhedrin of twenty-three.
— Mechilta D'Rashbi
Print Magazine

People talk about “wasting time,” or even “killing time.”

Neither term is accurate. Time does not belong to you that you can waste it. Yet neither does it have a life of its own that you can take away.

Rather, time awaits you to give it life.

Nissan 11, 5742; Torat Menachem 5744, vol. 3, p. 2001.