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Maayan Chai is a Chabad nonprofit organization whose goal is to provide the ideal environment for engaging and meaningful Jewish learning and counseling services. Group study, private classes, and programs for men and women of all backgrounds take place in the Dallas community, as well as online. Our Hebrew School meets once a week and is open to children K-8. Teen classes for students attending non-Jewish schools are also available.
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The words and the stories of Torah are but its clothing; the guidance within them is its body.
And as with a body, within that guidance breathes a soul that gives life to whoever follows it.
And within that soul breathes a deeper, transcendental soul, the soul of the soul: G‑d Himself within His Torah.
Grasp the clothes alone, and you are like the student who hears the words but not the thoughts. Grasp straight for the soul—or even the body—and you will come up with nothing. They are not graspable; they are G‑dly wisdom, and you are a created being.
Instead, examine those words and those stories...





