Standing silently in the Gush Etzion cemetery, listening to a wailing siren blaring its sad howl across the mountains of history, is one of the
A young graphic designer living in Eretz Yisroel finally found a position where she could effectively use her talents and hard work in school to
Standing silently in the Gush Etzion cemetery, listening to a wailing siren blaring its sad howl across the mountains of history, is one of the
The joke goes of a husband who graciously offered if he can be of any help around the house. His wife responded: “The biggest help
רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר אִישׁ בַּרְתּוּתָא אוֹמֵר, תֶּן לוֹ מִשֶּׁלּוֹ, שֶׁאַתָּה וְשֶׁלָּךְ שֶׁלּוֹ. וְכֵן בְּדָוִד הוּא אוֹמֵר (דברי הימים א כט) כִּי מִמְּךָ הַכֹּל וּמִיָּדְךָ נָתַנּוּ לך.
Parshat Emor There is an old joke (?) that, after Moshe Rabbeinu shattered the luchot, the people began to pick up the pieces left from
Hashem tells Moshe אֱמֹ֥ר אֶל־הַכֹּֽהֲנִ֖ים —“say to the Kohanim,” a set of mitzvot pertaining to them and their work. I find the title of the
We all have heard the expression, “(t)he perfect is the enemy of the good.” As a longtime educator and current head of school, I think
Iyar is the only month where the religious experience today is the opposite of what it was designated to be in Biblical times. Iyar in
While in other faiths the men of the cloth preside over death and dying by administering last rites, the priestly class of Klal Yisrael—the Kohanim—were
As a child I used to love riding on an escalator. I would race my brother from the bottom to the top of the downward
Rav Yisroel Yitzchak haLevi Reisman, zt”l, was a Lelover chasid, born in the Old City of Yerushalayim. A trusted gabbai tzedaka, he served Hashem with
