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Chabad UIC & West Loop is a Jewish community center dedicated to serving the Jewish and social needs of UIC & Rush students and the West Loop community. It is a place where all can feel welcome and comfortable regardless of observance and affiliation. We offer Shabbat dinners, Jewish holiday events, Torah classes, programs for kids, social events and more. Please don't hesitate to reach out. We would love to hear from you!
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Daily Thought
Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a single, indivisible whole. Think of a geometrical point. A point is indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A point simply has no area to be divided. That’s what makes it a point. And yet, from a point you can extend infinite lines radiating in infinite dimensions. In a somewhat similar way, but far beyond, all Jews are one Jew. Which means that in any one Jew, you will find all of us—just from a different angle. So that whatever happens to any one of us instantaneously happens to the entire Jewish people. Not by some ripple effect or resonance. But...