This Week’s Skydive From Heaven

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Cheshvan 1, 5773 * October 17, 2012

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Editor's Note:

Dear friends,

Our ability to communicate is what makes us human. The gift of speech elevates us above all other life.

This week we can learn a beautiful lesson about the power of speech and the need to protect it.

Noach was commanded to enter the ark to save himself from the destruction of the evil and corrupt society he inhibited. In Hebrew, the word for "ark" is teivah, which also means "word." Furthermore, the numerical equivalents of the dimensions of the ark also allude to language. The ark was 30 cubits in height, which corresponds to the Hebrew letter lamed; 300 cubits in length, equaling the letter shin; and 50 cubits in width, which corresponds to the letter nun. These three letters spell lashon, which means "tongue" or "language." Thus the Kabbalistic commentaries teach that Noah's ark is the secret of elevated language.

Our words have the power to build or destroy. We therefore must always use extreme care and caution when we choose our words, and recognize that just like the ark created a new reality for mankind, so too will our healthy communication create new realities.

Sarah Esther Crispe,
on behalf of the Chabad.org Editorial Team



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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:

PARSHAH

Nephilim: Fallen Angels, Giants or Men? (By Yehuda Shurpin)


Who or what exactly are the "benei elokim"? Who are the "nephilim"? How are they related to each other? And what does it all mean?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=686D335B2F1B4B09E60062B00185D035&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Hollow Tower (Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe)


The Tower of Babel marked the end of humanity as a single community, and gave rise to four millennia of xenophobia and bloodletting. How did this happen?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=BC8CDA778D6A440171EC0A965B96D9F1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Selfish as a Raven (By Lazer Gurkow)

A selfish society can't survive, let alone thrive . . .

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=91987762FC73DADC53C8996346A1658E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Noach in a Nutshell


Noah is instructed to build the ark; the rain falls and the world is flooded. Noah and his family leave the ark, build an altar and offer sacrifices to G-d. Noah's descendants build a tower, and are dispersed across the face of the earth.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=2064CEA42485AE4A7C176F7C06E1C04A&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


SPIRITUALITY

This Week's Skydive From Heaven (By Tzvi Freeman)


What I learned from a guy who fell to earth from the edge of outer space at the speed of sound.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=304DC97EADC01154F8E2B666D2232F6F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


What's So Great About Failure? (By Tzvi Freeman)


We need failure. The world is designed in such a way that people can fail—and fail so often. So often that at times it seems there is more failure than success.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=578196236E96066FCE98CCC314BBDB69&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

How Do You Treat Animals? (By Aron Moss)


I can't understand how "Do not eat the limb of a living animal" would be in the top seven most important things for all humanity to observe.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=BEB5D6473F7E62048F45BCD6E58CF374&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Can We Live More Than 120 Years? (By Menachem Posner)

Is it true that the Torah tells us that the longest a person can live is 120 years? I have always been told that, and would like to have it confirmed.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=016015F39B3F8F6DD1F39332622672FA&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


WOMEN

Dear Therapist (By Anonymous)


I have gone from one therapist to another seeking assistance, while continuing desperately in my lonely quest to grope my way out of my emotional prison. Why didn't I remain with any of them?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=2D6FBC200CDE8080B87A9AE7A1F8CC92&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


My Daughter Has Celiac Disease (By Sara Esther Crispe)


When the doctor suggested my daughter do blood work, I smiled and agreed, knowing I was not going to rush to make an appointment. And I didn't.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=B5434F9878D75EDA67785C8BDCA34606&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Learning from the Shadows (Sara Blau)


Someone introduced my son to lollipops. My toddler has now entered sweet-tooth territory, never to return to the land of grapes-are-a-treat. What does this mean for me?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D6B7042EBF3003451ABC95E14F0EFAA7&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


VIDEO

Leaving Noah's Ark (with Manis Friedman and Michael Kigel)


On the ark, Noah lived in a utopian state of harmony with his family and all the animals on board—so much so that G-d had to force him to leave after the Flood was over. What is the parallel in our own lives?

WATCH (17:50) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=14A104C72A403151FE6636C0D9EEBEE1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


The Immigration Debate: A Jewish Perspective (By Nochum Mangel)


Throughout our history, we Jews have known the need to immigrate. What is the right and just perspective on immigration?

WATCH (45:00) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=FBEED8432E120CB6D1825B5E2D43F7A4&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Noah, Abraham, Moses and King David (By Moshe New)


"Noah was righteous in his generation." Some say that if he had lived in another generation, he would not have been considered so righteous. How does the Zohar explain this?

WATCH (44:09) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C2572ABFE8385E2ECB94B762DA43C027&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


STORY

Up and Down the Ladder (<!-- blank -->)


The Ari said: "The trait of compassion is a mark of a Jew. A person must be extremely careful not to cause suffering to any living creature."

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=3526A7BDEB5C700D4E89834EA3BB1528&amp;ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Life After Death (By Maurice Lamm)


The whole world, to these brothers, is the interior of the womb. Who could conceive anything larger, better, more comfortable?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=578D2C4D5D2A8621A8783A1954412EB8&amp;ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


JUDAISM 101

Kaddish


As a soul leaves this world and begins its journey upward, its children can help it along its way.

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