Environment and Choice

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Strength Of Character

5772

Whether we have the power to change our own lives or whether we are entirely products of environment, using Rebecca as a model of strength of character. Despite coming from a thoroughly idolatrous...

Esau And His Wives

5769

The first intermarriage in the Torah through Esau's Hittite wives, and the grief this caused Isaac and Rebecca. The contrast between Rebecca, who rose above her idol-worshipping family background,...

Living In Context

The tension between environment and free choice, examining Moses's warning to the Jews entering Canaan about the dangers of assimilation. The Lubavitcher Rebbe's insight is that kashrut, broadly...