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Mordechai Lightstone

  • Social Media Director, Chabad.org
  • Founder and Director of Digital Communications, Tech Tribe
Brooklyn
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The Journey To The Promised Land

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By Mordechai Lightstone
| The Tech Tribe Dispatch
“The Long Journey Across the Galaxy” When the Torah lists the forty-two journeys and encampments of the Jewish people on their way to Israel, it refers to them collectively as the Exodus from Egypt. Yet, seemingly, only the first encampment was the Exodus - all subsequent journeys were already outside of Egypt. In Hebrew, Egypt is called Mitzrayim, a name related to the word for boundaries. The exodus from Egypt is the journey from our own inner Egypt, our self-imposed limitations and constraints.
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Between Destruction and Redemption: The American Jewish Moment

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By Mordechai Lightstone
| The Tech Tribe Dispatch
We find ourselves just a day before the 250th birthday of the United States of America. The first July 4th, in 1776, took place on the 17th of Tammuz, the fast day we observed yesterday and the beginning of the three weeks, a period of mourning that culminates on Tisha B’Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. Yet this month is also one of redemption, the very seeds of which were sown at the moment of destruction.
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"If I Hold Your Hand, Will You Jump?"

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By Mordechai Lightstone
| The Tech Tribe Dispatch
ā€œG-d came to Balaam at night and said to him, ā€œIf these men have come to call for you, arise and go with them, but whatever I tell you, you must do.ā€ ā€” Bamidbar 22:20 Thereā€™s a story I love When Rochel Leah Blachman was an older lady, she was told by the doctors that she needed surgery. It was a preventative operation, one that if done now, would prevent potentially more serious issues laterā€¦ But she was an older woman, and the thought of surgery frightened her.
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