MAGAZINE: What are You Worth?

B"H


Iyar 23, 5772 * May 15, 2012

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Editor's Note:

Dear readers,

Can you find your last few phone bills? I know where mine are. They're piled high on my desk, keeping company with an assortment of reports, invitations, and various important-looking scraps of paper. Together, they wait patiently for the day when they will be sorted and neatly filed away. The realities of everyday life keep pushing such activities further down on my to-do list.

Some things are too important to wait until the right moment appears. As busy as we may be, essentials don't belong on the back burner. Deadlines and schedules, whether self-determined or externally prescribed, help ensure that priorities are addressed in time.

This week's Torah reading [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D7D929C98955A342A2644AE0032962B1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] highlights this concept. Shabbat comes once a week, a day to refresh and reconnect with our Creator. Every seven years, during the Sabbatical year, the land lies fallow, allowing us to refocus on the true source of our sustenance. Property sales are canceled every fifty years when the Jubilee is observed, emphasizing the transience of material acquisitions. Designated times remind us to take a step back and focus on what truly counts.

Celebrate these special times, and reflect on the lessons they teach us. Allow their effect to spill over into your life, each and every day. And maybe find a moment to clear off your desk too.

Now take some time to enjoy a good, inspiring read!

Rochel Chein,
Responder for Ask the Rabbi @ Chabad.org



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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:

JUDAISM 101

Kosher Moneylending


Lending money is the highest form of charity, far greater than giving handouts. A handout may preserve a life for a day, but a loan preserves that sense of self-sufficiency necessary to get back on your feet.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CE29A8A8A58BA64CF7EF9D054C653BC2&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Start Your Day the Jewish Way


The day's first battlefield is your bed, and the first shot is fired when the alarm clock rings. What is the first action we'll take on the battlefield?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=8311F71369212CDCBBA538872402A5E8&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


EN ROUTE TO SINAI

Am I Really a Slob? (By Shoshana Benjamin)


Maya asked a few questions, peered into cupboards and bedrooms in her best social-worker manner, and then left. I was sure we passed the test . . .

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=48AE03245CB6AFE16A2D91A409143B23&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Talk Like an Egyptian (By Sara Esther Crispe)


We were free people. But freedom is not automatic. It is something that needs to be learned, integrated and experienced. And if you have never been free, you may not know how to do it . . .

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CDFED088E997CDA3B2E06AD34E78AABA&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Seasons of the Soul


The Lubavitcher Rebbe, of sainted memory, learns a life-altering lesson from the spring season.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=DE06FC221AD15F68FA6C1B81390FE38D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


PARSHAH

Effort That Really Counts (By Avraham Plotkin)


Unlike other sciences, Torah study is not about accumulating knowledge.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D0B9C1C7FFF6C6BCDA6773F765A89414&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Growing Your Love (By Chana Weisberg)


We need to connect with G-d in real "communication," rather than just passing the moments of prayer on autopilot.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=B2E2CE5A65F63FA7C50B845DC5CA1083&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Punishments or Gifts? (By Gittle Gesina)


I perceived G-d as an onlooker to my life. He was dispassionately watching from above as I struggled through the daily challenges, waiting for me to slip in order to shoot down the punishment.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=2745A04E51FF925885F7F255FE5B5D4D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


What Are You Worth? (By Levi Avtzon)


Does the size of our bank account determine our worth?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=5323062C18A59E9B4CE29C991F8E5E14&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Parshah in a Nutshell


The Sabbatical and Jubilee years, doing business with G-d, reward and rebuke, and a system for evaluating value.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D7D929C98955A342A2644AE0032962B1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


ON MOTHERHOOD

Mama (By Chana Weisberg)


It's the first word a baby learns to speak. It's the kindest word in any language. It's the name of G-d

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=5CC44EDF61C63A2BFCA3D6E86BBBB8F3&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


What I Learned in Nursery School . . . Yesterday (by Sarah Isseroff Abenaim)


My heart swelled. I empathized with her awkwardness, her inability to casually approach the group and join the activity . . .

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F1FEFD2CDE52F51B0ACD4D94C0411081&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


VIDEO

The Obligation to Study Torah (video) (By Mendel Kaplan)


Even laymen are obligated to be learned in Torah. But how much is one actually obligated to study? How often?

WATCH (1:13:55) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=9649203DBC66836E6D66686CAAA2AAFF&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Investing in Our Relationship (video) (By Chana Weisberg)


In a healthy relationship, the love must deepen and grow, or the relationship is at risk of becoming static and stale. The same is true in our relationship with G-d.

WATCH (30:00) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=7B7282FF1713A95C78A889EA1039DB1A&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


The Secret of the Bagel (video) (By Tzvi Freeman)


Is the hole a part of the bagel, or just its absence? Rabbi Infinity explores this Kabbalistic question in depth when he attempts to explain to his four-year-old granddaughter why he's so good at explaining things.

WATCH () >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CC48ADEFD550440467BC77CE0374AF3B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Torah in Ten: Behar (By Chaim Miller)


What did the Rebbe tell the president of the United States about the meaning of the Sabbatical year? What does the Jubilee year represent? Why was Mount Sinai small?

WATCH (10:12) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C62A4D83BD255295745779CCCC56DD3B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


STORIES

The Blood Not Lost


The poor man ate greedily. As he left, a man with kind eyes nodded. The poor man knew that this man had saved his life.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=39D592150F049773F9E7A16D3320077B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


The Prodigy Under The Bed (Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe)


Should not an accomplished scholar be considered more valuable than a simple laborer?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F1CC76E93BA9F3E2E6CD800D3370EE9E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


LATEST NEWS

Holocaust Survivor Tackles Question of Belief (By Karen Schwartz)

Rabbi Nissen Mangel, a renowned philosopher and author who was sent to Auschwitz as a 10-year-old boy and spent five years in the death camp before his liberation in 1945, addressing the concept of belief in G-d after the Holocaust.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C7E90565263B58FCD76651D90AF4E1A1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Wounded Israeli Soldiers Inspire Crowds (By Karen Schwartz)

Sheri Ben Aroya talked about her life, and how it changed one ordinary day with a terror attack that left her paralyzed down the right side of her body.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C93B7BD6ED6176F7B3013F6DF8C6DD79&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

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