By Rabbi Reuven Taragin Over the past weeks, we studied the first of the 13 principles, which recognizes Hashem’s control over all occurrences. This week,

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: As the gabbai in an Ashkenazi shul, I recently called up a guest for an

By Rabbi Neil N. Winkler Parshat Chukat-Balak The Gemara in Makkot (24a-b) tells us something interesting about the final pasuk of this week’s haftarah: “Six

By Rabbi Moshe Hauer There is an enormous amount of debate and commentary regarding the incident recorded in our parsha that resulted in Moshe and

The midrash (Bereishit Rabbah, 93:10) counts two episodes of rebuke in the Torah that provide some sort of a microcosm of the rebuke that is

A few summers ago, Rabbis Noach Sauber and Hersh Kasirer, the learning directors at Camp Dora Golding, launched what they called the “Say Thank You”program.

שומר שמסר לשומר By Raphael Grunfeld Before leaving for an extended vacation, you entrust your gold colored, convertible Porsche to your best friend, Bailee One—a

Rav Elimelech Biderman, shlita, for some reason, belongs to all of Klal Yisroel. One can be down and depressed, and it is Rav Biderman that

By Mitchell First Here, we have a statement by Bilam: “Hashem elokav imo, u-teruat melech bo” Hashem—His God—is with him, and the “teruah” of a

By Rabbi Moshe Kurtz/ outorah.org This article has been reprinted with permission from outorah.org. Scenario: It is a Friday afternoon during the summer time. The

State lawmakers do not pay rent for their office space in Albany. The offices are assigned by the leader of each house. Every two years

By Rabbi Noach Goldstein If we paused the battle the moment the Babylonian battering rams finally smashed the walls of Yerushalayim, I doubt a single