of guidance and inspiration as one prepares to leave the synagogue. This post-prayer reading seems to be a more common practice in Chabad communities in North and South America than in Israel. Teachings Hayom Yom expounds the Chabad Hasidic theological principle of "continuous creation" as an injunction of practicality: "God created the universe and all physical objects ex nihilo, "something from nothing." Jews must transform "something into nothing." They must transform materiality into spirituality… This is an obligation upon every specific individual." References External links Hayom Yom on Chabad.org (English) Chabad-Lubavitch texts Jewish mystical texts Jewish philosophical and ethical texts Books by Menachem Mendel Schneerson