I was speaking recently with Rabbi Shalom Garfinkel, from Project 613 of Chicago, for advice about our building campaign for Yeshiva Ner Boruch—PTI. He shared
So often in life we struggle with desires and needs that seem to weigh us down. If only we didn’t so crave that chocolate fudge
In relationships, many experience its beginnings to be one of tremendous excitement and vigor, happily looking forward to doing for the other. We wish things
I would not normally write an article on this topic. But Parshat “Acharei Mot” appears once per year and gives me this opportunity. We all
Parshiyot Acharei Mot-Kedoshim He was a cattle herder, a shepherd, a seemingly common man. And yet, he was quite “uncommon” because he was chosen by
The purpose of this article is to provide a general outline of the laws of Sefirat HaOmer and should not be used as an answer
In last week’s parsha of Tazria-Metzora we read about the possibility of people experiencing tzara’at upon their houses. Chapter 14, verse 34, describes how some
This week’s parsha features one of the most well-known pesukim in the Torah. Among the myriad of commandments given to Bnei Yisrael in Parshat Kedoshim,
This week, April 19, was the first anniversary of my return home from the hospital, after being in the hospital for 32 days and being
How do you feel when someone or something you love is attacked, maligned, or defamed? Obviously, your first reaction is to scream, “How dare they!”
This morning, my son Etiel invited me to join him on a mission. He was headed to the military cemetery at Har Herzl in Jerusalem.
My dear mother, Mrs Esther Scheinfeld, z”l, was niftar about seven months ago on Rosh Chodesh Elul. My mother was a very special person. Despite
