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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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Daily Thought
On Simchat Torah we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah is something we study with our heads. But we dance with our feet, not with our heads.
If we would dance with our heads, each one would dance a different dance, each in a different space, some with friends but not with others, some as lonesome souls.
One head is higher, one is lower, one is here on earth, the other in the clouds or beyond, and some minds know only their own space that no one else can know.
But we dance with our feet, and all our feet are here on the same earth—none higher and none...



