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Let’s say someone has a choice for Passover: He can eat matzah alone. Or he can sit with other Jews with no matzah and chat about Passover. Which should he choose?

Wrote this hoping it would generate some discussion. chabad.org/library/articl…

It’s a thrill to have Dovid Margolin, whose work I’ve long enjoyed, in tomorrow’s WSJ. He writes about the Yevsek­tzia (Bolshevik Jews who sought to stamp out Judaism) and the Trial of the Cheder—then and now. wsj.com/articles/sovie…

A meditation for Rosh Hashanah. Based on the kavanot of the Besht, as explained in various maamarim.

When I wrote this essay chabad.org/1831991 in 2012, I was trying to bring to the foreground what seems a lost memory of a nation. Now some readers are seeing a strong relevance to the current discussion of critical race theory. Give it a read and tell me your take.

My Latest Kabbalistic SciFi-Fantasy: The Tzaddik and the Dragon of Darkness chabad.org/library/articl…

Upon their monuments and mausoleums, the pharaohs of Egypt preserved the legends of their wealth and conquests. The story of the exploited and oppressed workers who were forced to build those monuments is preserved in only one place: The Passover story.

Passover is upon us and what is the world railing about? That there's a Jew named #EvanGershkovich in prison and we have to get him out. Is there meaning there? Have him in mind at your seder. Every one of us is all of us.

Talmudic #Passover scenario: Rubble covering a piece of bread. Dog digs it up and some starving Jew might eat the leftovers. These things bewilder me. But then, compare this to tort law that emerges from a fat aristocracy’s need to keep order. Talmud begins with the impoverished.

Today, more than ever, the most precious commodity you can provide is authenticity. Because today we no longer know whether we are chatting with a person or with an algorithm, reading an author or reading an llm. And even if it’s a person, they’re following a protocol.

Scott: We’re getting closer to Willawiktoo Spock: There is no evidence that we are approaching Willawiktoo. Scott: How do you know? Spock: Because we don’t know where the hell is Willawiktoo. (Now exchange Willawiktoo for human consciousness.)

🚨 Presidents of Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Penn: “It's OK to call for genocide of Jews” 🤯

In 1933, if even a few voices of academia had spoken up, history would have changed course. Today, we have a second chance. Please read this. Then ask your prof to put up a mezuzah on his office doorpost. No statement could be stronger. chabad.org/6217381

Just figured it out. The universe is held together by divine wisdom. Humanity is held together by duct tape.

The last two of the four children mentioned in the Haggada are the simple child and the “child who does not know how to question.” They may seem similar, but in truth they are two very different sorts of Jews. Chabad.org/1818137