Forbidden Love

B"H


Tammuz 27, 5772 * July 17, 2012

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Editor's Note:

Dear readers,

Times are pretty sad right now. During the 3 Weeks [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=445042EA37BF7E281F998CC5B28770E2&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] we remember the desolation of our Holy Land and the subsequent exile that has lasted until today. Yes, most of us are comfortably ensconced in our host countries and have enough to eat, but as a nation we are far from our home. Spiritually speaking we are in the desert longing for the Promised Land.

Yet, as I helped a bar mitzvah boy learn this week's Torah reading, I noticed a heartening lesson. We read about the daughters of Zelophehad [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=50F2A5E3780086FC53B389F19577638E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] and men of Manasseh [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A61245276554323E01E801FDA9B9A70B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], each struggling to ensure that they get their maximum share of the Land of Israel. Surrounded by the barren wastes of the desert, they were fully focused on their goal: Israel. They are poised to enter the land, and they want possess and embrace it to the best of their abilities.

Perhaps we can take a lesson. To paraphrase the Rebbe, "Live as if Moshiach has already arrived, and he will arrive already." Yes, we are mourning, and yes things are pretty rotten, but learning about the future era of Moshiach [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=0951E60C24124D74CB56236A9E1F07A7&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] and the Third Temple [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=597A39687355AF0922AC6DBF29116B18&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] will bring it all that much closer.

Menachem Posner
On behalf of the Chabad.org Editorial Team



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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:

PARSHAH

The Prophetic Voice (By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)


Jeremiah, the most passionate and tormented of all the prophets, has gone down in history as the prophet of doom. Yet this is unfair. He was also supremely a prophet of hope.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=804F5B510C66F00A6C5B275802FE3599&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Forbidden Love (By Elisha Greenbaum)


He knows that what he is doing is wrong, yet cannot imagine life without her.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=319F51E06D43ED7D8C3E06A4481085D4&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


It's What We Bring Home That Counts (By Lazer Gurkow)


Life is a journey with stations along the way, some more comfortable than others. But when we settle in to those more comfortable stations, we may forget that we haven't yet reached our destination.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=97BB2F9317851EA61B2989892A11F995&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Matot-Massei in a Nutshell


Laws of annulling vows, war is waged and loot distributed. Boundaries of Israel are listed, cities of refuge designated, and some tribes request land outside of Israel.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=59416DC8DA86750D5E978DDA008508CA&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


3 WEEKS

What Was the Holy Temple? (By Mendy Hecht)


The problem with the word "temple" is that Indiana Jones got to it. Picture jungle, torches, hieroglyphics, dark foreboding stone entranceways. So what was it really?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=8A4CF3F315FD7389D66C3C5F90F5D503&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Because We're All One (By Tzvi Freeman)


We are not a religion. We are a soul. Together we compose a symphony with no redundant parts, no instrument more vital than another.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=ED460B57053A8FE15348635837B32024&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Who's Your Daddy? (By Elisha Greenbaum)


Friends are there for empathy and absolute acceptance. Parents are supposed to provide direction. A family is not a democracy; if anything, it's more like a benevolent dictatorship.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=55811FA9A1276DAB25B298596ABD1F1D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


THE REBBE

Moon Landing and Torah (By Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, The Lubavitcher Rebbe)


When the Torah states that G-d placed the moon in the sky so to give light on earth, this does not exclude the possibility of man's landing on it at some future time.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=E725F33C2818736C51646AB37ADA64A7&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


WOMEN

Counting Our Blessings (By Judy Gruen)


In contrast to the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt, familiarity for us has bred content, and much more.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=B1418AAEC80A3ECDD35C6F2D3EC38833&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


I'm Telling You, Child, You Are a Gentile (By Mirish Kiszner)


Tonica Marlow couldn't take her eyes off the rabbi or the Torah scroll he held in his hand. What am I doing here? she kept asking herself. So many times she had promised herself never to come here again, and yet here she was again . . .

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D2C91B2539CD60A127AA00E5BCBE7354&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


STORIES

An Audacious Promise (By Yerachmiel Tilles)


The man was inconsolable, and indicated that if his wife was indeed deported, he wouldn't think twice about taking his own life.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=AC29E431A813B07B795BE5CBB929559E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


How to Be in Exile (By Yerachmiel Tilles)


"If you are hungry, ask no man for money or for food. But if people offer you something out of compassion, you may accept it."

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=11E300C3B3A55652C59C2721BD72381F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


VIDEO

Six Steps to Finding Your Inner Refuge (video) (By Chana Weisberg)


The six constants that apply to every Jew, at all times and in all circumstances, are readily accessible to one who seeks refuge from his failings.

WATCH (28:59) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F1CB4095A4B99E3AF9DD27547B35F42B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


The Sanctity of Human Life (video) (By Shimon Glick)


Leveling a critique at widely accepted principles of medical ethics, Professor Glick argues that medical ethics cannot be based only on biology or philosophy, but on the "sanctity of human life."

WATCH (51:25) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=790364261A00EDD76220DE4BABE1CD03&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Annulling a Vow (video) (By Mendel Kaplan)


It is a mitzvah to keep a vow, but it is also a mitzvah to have a vow properly annulled. How is a vow annulled?

WATCH (45:00) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=11F329ABB89B426BBA6481E44067129F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


QUESTION

What Is the Midpoint of the Torah? (By Yehuda Shurpin)

I read that it was the letter "vav" of the word "gachon" (Leviticus 11:42). My friend says that that is incorrect.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=570C9F5279A589A4F4796010B2950A22&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


JEWISH NEWS

Westchester Center Restores 70-Year-Old Romanian Torah (By Meredith Levick)

The story began more than 70 years ago in Romania and spanned three continents, finally ending up in New York's Westchester County.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D9B65BCBCFCCAC7A90F140625EA8EF11&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Military Engineer Talks Motherhood (By Karen Schwartz)

A mother of eight and electrical engineer who does research on robotics for the U.S. Army, Naomi manages to be all of this, and then some . . .

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=76D6F8D21125146EA9401E8F62606DBD&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

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