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One of fourteen Houston branches of Chabad Lubavitch of Texas, Chabad of Uptown is located in the heart of the trendy Uptown area, near the Galleria, River Oaks and Memorial areas, offering Shabbat services, classes, holiday programs, a vibrant young professionals group and a mommy and me among other outreach activities.
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- How to Celebrate PurimYour Purim 2025 guide contains the story of Purim, and all you need to know about the 4 mitzvahs of... Read More
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The Origins of the Grager: Why We Boo HamanRabbi David Abudraham (14th century, Spain) writes that there had been an
earlier custom for childr... Read More - How (& If) to Have a Purim Meal Late on Friday AfternoonThe tricky halachic conundrum of “Pores Mapah Umikadesh” Read More
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Daily Thought
There are forty-nine gates of human understanding. The fiftieth gate is entirely beyond any living being.
It is so high that, looking down from there, all things are equally nothing. There is no good, no evil, nothing can be added or taken away, the righteous are dust, the wicked are dust, nothing is of consequence, all is but dust.
That is why Haman erected a gallows fifty cubits high upon which to hang Mordechai. To say: G-d does not care. He is beyond all these things. There is no good or evil, it is all a fiction of the petty human mind.
Drunk with the joy of Purim, a Jew soars higher and yet higher until he reaches that gate. Upon...