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
In honor of my grandson Dovi Leff’s bar mitzvah this Shabbos. The second plague which God brought upon the Egyptians was frogs. They invaded Egypt,
This was it. After weeks of haggling, negotiating, headbutting and arguing, after trying and returning myriad failed options, we had finally found a winter coat
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
