B"H
Menachem Av 2, 5771 * August 2, 2011
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Editor's Note:
The tunnel certainly provided our group with all the requisite touristy amusements: knee-deep water to slosh through, the required use of flashlights, the mystery of ancient engineering feats . . . But what I remember most about my visit to the Shiloach Tunnel, built in the sixth century BCE by King Hezekiah under the City of David in Jerusalem, is the story of its construction. Over a period of two years, two sets of workers carved out the tunnel simultaneously from opposite sides until they met in the middle, allowing water to flow through.
As our group wound its way single-file between the clammy walls, our little lights bouncing off the ceiling, the water, each other, the guide drew our attention to the arched furrows left in the walls by the forward motion of the workers' axes. I remember running my hands over the furrows and thinking of the people wielding those axes, and the long and lonely path they had to cut through the darkness of the earth. And then, at last, the moment when muffled voices were heard, and, infused with a new energy, the workers cut through the last bits of rock towards a reunion—the point where the inverted arches meet.
The three weeks before the 9th of Av are a time described as "between the straits," when we mourn not only the destruction of the Temple, but two thousand long years of spiritual distance and estrangement. When contemplating the constriction of exile, the dark stretches of our history when we are afforded only a narrow tunnel vision, I cannot help but remember the Shiloach Tunnel.
And it would seem that when approaching a narrow time or a narrowness within our own souls, the quickest and best way through is the way that leads towards each other.
Devora Levin,
on behalf of the Chabad.org Editorial Team
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:
NINE DAYS: REMEMBERING AND ANTICIPATING
The Nine Days—Laws and Customs
The first nine days of the month of Av are days of acute mourning for the destruction of the first and second Holy Temples.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C8D3058A54303EE8CB858363EF4413EF&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
How Have We Survived? (By Yossy Goldman)
What is the biggest miracle of our generation? The fall of Communism? The peaceful political transition in South Africa? That Fidel Castro still runs Cuba?
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=936C9B67E873ED687C5834E326C9C9A6&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
When (and How) to be Sad (By Yanki Tauber)
If joy is the revelation and expansion of the soul, then sorrow is a soul's concealment and contraction . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=8D43CA9A828DD3BECCCA415ACB386F05&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
WE ARE ALL FAMILY
The Rebbe Cared Deeply for My Dying Daughter (By Yekutiel Farkash)
I got straight to the point. "Rebbe, I have heard that many miracles come from this room. Please give my daughter a blessing that she should be cured!"
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When I Joined the "High Society" Synagogue (By Dovid Zaklikowski)
I admit I am intolerant. At times I am bigoted towards others. I judge people by the way they look, the way they walk, the way they talk . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=93C1D9389BD0D7D148B62252A274A1C4&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Love Your Fellow
A healthy Jewish people is one big, caring family where each individual loves the other like his or her own self.
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Should I Join the Family Celebration? (By Dovid Zaklikowski)
What should I do? Should I attend the family celebration? Or could I blow off the celebration and go to the convention I had so been looking forward to?
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=4D5AFC7725FC12DB132B588EFD608438&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
A Joker's Shabbat (By Yerachmiel Tilles)
As might be expected, Hershel the Hilarious was the most popular guy in Mosayov among the idle, the crude, the silly and the drinkers . . .
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SHABBAT OF VISION
Visualize, Realize (Video) (By Mendel Kaplan)
Isaiah's prophecy contains a hidden lesson about our power to visualize and manifest our greatest hopes and dreams.
WATCH (45:00) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=E0F5F8CD9C7901B13BA7A476B3991E8C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Subliminal Advertising (By Elisha Greenbaum)
I don't know if the communists or Madison Avenue ever perfected the art of subliminal suggestion, but I am sure that G-d has the requisite skills to pull it off . . .
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Make It Real (By Chana Kroll)
The vision which we see on Shabbat Chazon is to inspire a change so fundamental that we will turn that vision of the Third Temple into actual physical reality...
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DEUTERONOMY: WHEN MOSES TALKS
The Book of Deuteronomy (Video) (By Yehoshua B. Gordon)
An introduction to the book of Deuteronomy and its uniqueness among the Five Books of Moses.
WATCH (3:41) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=10CEC0BA0011EB4A8A56C31FBDE73206&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Back to the Land (From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; adapted by Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky)
An intermediary can convey his message verbatim, or he can absorb it and "translate" it into terms more readily understood by the recipients . . .
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Words (Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe)
Why do we talk so much? Witness the endless self-explaining we engage in, the perpetual conversation we feel obliged to "make" . . .
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Goals (By Tali Loewenthal)
A person can live from day to day, or he or she can have a clear goal in life. For such a person, every major decision is made in terms of that goal.
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Ever Thought That G-d Hates You? (By Rochel Holzkenner)
Life is disappointing or frightening, and we immediately point the finger at G-d: You hate me, even though I have nothing against You!
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C3547809777A7E5FFF52CCAD616D7488&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
The Parshah in a Nutshell
Devarim
For thirty-seven days Moses talks: recalling, reminding, rebuking, warning, promising; about the revelation at Sinai, their journeys through the desert . . .
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ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
Miriam, Mother of Rebellion (Video) (By Chana Weisberg)
How Miriam as a five-year-old girl already displayed immense bravery by defying the wicked Pharaoh's order to help kill the newborn Israelite males.
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The Holy Ari (By Yerachmiel Tilles)
Rabbi Yitzchak Luria was undisputedly the greatest practitioner and expounder of Kabbalah since Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar.
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FROM OUR MAILBAG
You Think You're Busy? (By Aron Moss)
Rabbi, I appreciate your invitation to join your classes, but I just don't have time in my life for spirituality right now . . .
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Why All the Rules in Judaism? (By Tova Benjamin)
Judaism seems to be the ultimate restriction for a free-spirited, independent young person . . .
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BLOGROLL
Ups and Downs (By Dani Saul)
Prices on all dishes in the restaurant are in multiples of
$1.00 to enable the special teenagers to serve as cashiers without worrying about small change.
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From Rimanov to Kenosha (By Mendy Singer)
Our new friend shared historic frayed photos and clear memories of a time gone by. Here we pass on the favor to you.
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WOMEN WRITE
The Things My Mother Loved (By Anonymous)
Emotion and life were not part of the gray house on Andrew Avenue. Yes, there were four people living there, ostensibly a family. In reality, just four people sharing two bathrooms . . .
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A Divine Sign (By Chana Perman)
She has a sign on her wall,<br />
much like The Writing on Wall<br />
saying (as she's praying):<br />
This too shall pass</p>
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