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Feature of the Week: Ask Rabbi Y Did you ever wonder why we Jews do what we do? From why we check our fingernails during Havdalah to wh

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Editor's Note Feature of the Week: Ask Rabbi Y Did you ever wonder why we Jews do what we do? From why we check our fingernails during Havdalah to why some Jews have long sidelocks, and from why kosher pickles are called "kosher" to why Jews toast "l'chaim, "to life. Get your answers from "Rabbi Y," a veteran of Chabad.org's acclaimed Ask the Rabbi team, who answers another "why" question every week. No question is too obscure, and no area of Jewish life is off-limits. Click here to submit your question to "Rabbi Y" and here to receive "Ask Rabbi Y" every week by email, and join our growing group of learning, enlightened Jews. Discuss In Honor of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries The 7 Prophetesses of Judaism Our forebears were prophets. Later, prophets and prophetesses guided us, chided us and comforted us. By Menachem Posner Read 8 Insights for a More Meaningful Kaddish After I'd been saying Kaddish for several months, it occured to me that I did not understand how the prayer related to my grandmother. By Carmi Wisemon Read Your Questions What Is Torah? A Comprehensive Overview By Tzvi Freeman Read Are Cigarettes Kosher? The total number of lives cut short due to smoking is staggering. Do we find that cigarette smoking is indeed forbidden by leading halachic experts of the day? By Shlomo Minkowitz Read Video Who Can Speak for G-d? As Author of the Torah, as well as Author of the universe, G-d has the ultimate Authority on all matters great and small. And yet does this mean that human beings can never speak with authority? Are we just silent pawns in a divine chess game? By Michael Chighel Watch (3:59) How to Get Over Yourself What makes a narcissist? Explore how arrogance and ego is the bane of life and the source of all our conflict, and uncover the formula to reach beyond self. by Yitzchok Schochet Watch (42:39) 15 Shevat: Celebrating Trees Why Is a Banana a "Vegetable"? On the Halachic Definition of a Tree by Yehuda Shurpin Read The Story of a Tree: Condemned to Death, It Lives On Anyone with any knowledge about the natural way of trees would say it should have died. By Etti Krinsky Read Parshah I Didn't Know My Father Had Died, But I Knew I Loved Him It's a lovely Wednesday summer afternoon in South Africa and I'm sitting at my desk thinking about what to write for my upcoming column… By Levi Avtzon Read Pharaoh and the Squeegee Men G‑d's compassion was not based on our "deserving" it. And that is the deep reality of compassion: It is not earned; rather, it is given. By Hanna Perlberger Read Jewish News Q&A: Chana Weisberg on Her New Book: Shabbat deLights Two-volume set on weekly Torah portion merges wisdom, scholarship and practical action By Yaakov Ort Read 'I Googled a Link to My Jewish Soul' A young adult's Jewish journey in Tampa with Chabad Young Professionals By Musia Gurevitch Read Story Did You Know That G-d Loves Stories? Trouble was brewing in St. Petersburg, and the Tzemach Tzedek immediately set to work to have the decree abolished. By Asharon Baltazar Read Lifestyle Art: Tu B'Shevat Pomegranate By Cheryl Veiner Read White Chocolate Pomegranate Bark By Miriam Szokovski Read This email was sent to: tweatsho.email004@blogger.com Change email address · Manage Subscriptions · Unsubscribe © Copyright Chabad.org · Contact Us · Ask the Rabbi · Privacy Policy · Donate