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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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Your soul is full of words, some inscribed, some engraved.
The words inscribed on your soul are like ink upon a page. They came to you from the outside, from life and its experiences. Eventually, they may fade and fall away, to be replaced by other words.
The words engraved are of the soul itself—just as engravings are no more than the form of the stone. When the soul finds quietude, those words are there. If the soul is in turmoil, or soiled by experience, those engravings need only be cleaned and uncovered. But they can never be torn away.
Those same words that are engraved in your soul are also engraved in a holy fire within the...





