We just had a Shabbos guest who told us about her trip to Eretz Yisrael a few years ago. Security personnel at Ben Gurion Airport
As I write this article I am in the middle of a trip to Israel, a first for me in many ways, as it is
רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר כָּל הָעוֹסֵק בַּתּוֹרָה לִשְׁמָהּ, זוֹכֶה לִדְבָרִים הַרְבֵּה. וְלֹא עוֹד אֶלָּא שֶׁכָּל הָעוֹלָם כֻּלּוֹ כְדַי הוּא לוֹ…וּמְגַדַּלְתּוֹ וּמְרוֹמַמְתּוֹ עַל כָּל הַמַּעֲשִׂים (ו:א) כָל
Reb Zushe Wilmowsky, zy”a, the legendary chasid, tireless spiritual builder and activist, was affectionately referred to by the Lubavitcher Rebbe as “mein partisan.” During the
Many of us are familiar with the Midrash that relays how God offered the Torah to the other nations of the world. Each nation inquired
The new Nefesh B’Nefesh Aliyah Campus, in the heart of Yerushalayim, was hopping the other day. While 150 Ukrainian refugees were being processed in our
Parshat Bamidbar Sefer Bamidbar, which we begin this Shabbat, begins with the events that took place in the beginning of the second year of B’nei
The housing crunch is so large now, that even golf courses are being sold to build tracts and tracts of housing. Last week, the New
A Baker’s Dozen Occurrences Who is Kedi? This sage is offered as an alternate attribution in several sugyot, such as Yevamot 90a: וְאָמַר רָבָא וְאָמְרִי
On February 17, 2001, my wife and I were married in Bais Faiga hall in Lakewood. (Lakewood is a city way down the Garden State
The above blessing is not in the Talmud or the Geonim. When did the practice of reciting it in shul when one’s son is age
There’s a famous midrash on Parshas Yisro detailing how Hashem held Har Sinai over the heads of the Jewish people like a barrel, instructing them
