Integrity is a basic value to which our Sages attached great value, even referring to it as m’yesodei hanefesh, a foundation of the soul (Shaarei

It’s perhaps the most rabbinic word in the dictionary. If a person has aspirations to become a rabbi, aside from knowing halacha and how to

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In 1438, a great meeting of German rabbis was convened in Nuremberg during which the rabbis issued a number of communal enactments. During the Shabbos

Some people will not take credit for their accomplishments. Others boast every second they can about the things they have achieved. However, neither are good

The Gemara quotes Rebbe Akiva who taught that a person should always be accustomed to say: “Whatever the Merciful One [i.e., Hashem] does, He does

There is a fascinating Zohar (Parshas Vayishlach p. 179) which states: “Come and see, in these songs and praises that Dovid HaMelech recited—there are within

In the days of the Talmud, and in our own day, an ordinary instance of theft is assumed to generally result in the ye-ush or

העוסק במצות השבת אבידה Bava Kamma 57b As you are leaving the synagogue on a Shabbat morning, you find a diamond ring on the floor.

Due to the invention of the steamboat, Americans were finally able to travel to Europe and the Mideast starting around the middle of the 19th

In preparation for the tenth plague, Hashem told the Israelites to smear the blood of the korban Pesach on the lintels and doorposts of their