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Last week’s blog emphasized that embedded within the tapestry of our lives there are specific experiences created for us by God that we should focus on and engage. To convey this idea, the parashah utilized the words ShaeM (שם name), allegorically meaning “what is put forth (in experience)”1 and LeHheM (לחם bread), allegorically meaning “what can be gotten into closely (of experience).”2 These two words were joined in construct phrases with the words Elohim (אלהים), meaning “of God’s guidance being presented in experience”3 and QaDShi (קדשי), allegorically meaning “of what is brought forward of me.”4 Therefore, our goal is to tease out the things put
Priceless Library is the Closing of a Circle for Portugal
Newsי״ח אדר ה׳תשפ״א - March 2, 2021
A priceless collection located in the newly-built Chabad library in Cascais, Portugal. chronicles the nation’s rich Jewish history through the lens of the region’s seforim, including a
reshima the Rebbe wrote while there.
By Menachem Posner – Chabad.org
The year was 1497. Just five years after leaving his native Spain due to the Edict of Expulsion, Rabbi
Avraham Saba stood tearfully beside an olive tree outside of Lisbon, Portugal. There, under what he described as a “tree of tears,” he buried his most precious possession, his manuscript commentary on Chumash, Pirkei Avot, Ruth and Esther.