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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Metzora 5774
Vol. 10 No. 31, 28 Adar II - 5 NIssan, 5774 / March 30 - April 5, 2014
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
We are in the Jewish month of Nissan already. That means it is time to make the annual blessing on blossoming fruit trees (lead article)
and start the countdown on our preparations for Pesach (3rd article; next week's SPECIAL edition) The mitzvah of Mikveh first appears in this week's Reading. The last three articles connect to it. The great chasidic leader, Torah scholar and Kabbalist, the Apter Rebbe, is the author of the teachings in article 2. Dedication
to KabbalaOnline.org managing editor, Yerachmiel Tilles, and to his wife, Shulamit, on the brit mila of their grandson, Aryeh-Leib Tilles in Los Angeles |
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| The Month of Nissan | |
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The Annual Blessing Over Trees
— Kabbalah teaches that the blessing upon blossoming fruit trees can redeem souls.
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| Gender Issues | |
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The Female Aspect of Adam
— Adam originally included both male and female.
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Some Basic Pesach Laws
— A few main Passover customs
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| Weekly Torah Reading | |
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Words Sharp as Swords
— Worldly judgment will ultimately afflict one who slanders others.
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| Love & Marriage | |
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Forty in the Mikvah
— The embryo takes forty days to attain recognizable human form.
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| FAQ's | |
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FAQ: Family Life
QUESTION: "If you name a newborn in memory of a deceased relative, does a spark of that particular relative's soul become part of the soul of the baby?" ANSWER: |
| Mystic Story | |
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From Upper Galilee to Lower East Side
— “Tell me,” the kibbutznik asked the chasid, “Does the Lubavitcher Rebbe have supernatural powers?”
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