18 Incredibly Brave Jewish Women

Feature of the Week: Parsha Perks There’s a Chassidic teaching that we are to “live” with the Torah portion of the week. Every week, th [Chabad.org]( [View Online]( ב"ה [Chabad.org Magazine]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Note Feature of the Week: Parsha Perks There’s a Chassidic teaching that we are to “live” with the Torah portion of the week. Every week, the parshah comes alive for thousands of viewers through Dr. Michael Chighel’s enlightening, insightful and zany [conversations with himself](. Titled, “Parshah Perks,” these delightful and fast-paced vlog-posts are whimsically described as “perquisites for daily life percolated in the Rebbe's teachings on the parshah.” This week, Professor Chighel and an alter ego who looks remarkably like Captain Ahab [learn a lesson]( about obstinacy, ambition, and humility. The other week, he [spoke to a Freudian psychoanalyst]( from yesteryear about the divide between rational and supra-rational. 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