Question: I learned that the mezamen (leader of zimun) should recite—if not all of Birkat Hamazon aloud—at least the first beracha and the ends of
Have you heard of ChatGPT? That AI robot can write anything: movie scripts, Shakespeare-style plays, or how-to weed-your-garden guides. So I decided to give it
Many students of mine grew up without knowledge of Torah and mitzvos, first making their commitment to Yiddishkeit as adults. Their road was not easy,
This zemer, song, was authored by Yisrael ben Moshe Najara (c. 1555- 1625, biography is below). His name ישראל is spelled by the first letter
Moshe was hand-selected to liberate us from Egypt and to introduce Hashem to a human audience which had previously ignored Him. Moshe possessed an impressive
I heard a story from R’ Gavriel Friedman about when he was once giving a philosophy-oriented class. He got up and began: “So you all
When Moshe first approached Pharaoh to free Klal Yisrael, Pharaoh moved to intensify our oppression. While our situation was bad enough to prompt us to
Israeli media personality Sivan Rahav-Meir has been bringing stories to the public eye since she was a child. At the age of 6 she began
Why two days Yom Tov outside Israel and one day Yom Tov in Israel? The answer to this question depends on the answer to another
Well, my friends, we’ve come to another exciting episode of “What’s Going on in My Brain?” Each week, you get a glimpse inside the workings
Stubbornness—like many human traits—can either work for you or against you. When we think of the Jews who survived atrocious circumstances in the Holocaust, for
Parshat Va’era The bulk of parshat Va’era revolves around the first seven plagues visited upon the Egyptians, the warnings given to Pharaoh and his stubborn
