Yehudi or Yemini? Mordechai enters the scene in Esther 2:5, where he is described as an “ish Yehudi” (a man from the tribe of Yehuda)
Hashem had humbled the mighty Egyptian empire, quieted the riotous ocean, and delivered His word atop a blazing mountain. He could have easily constructed a
When I got married to my wife Rivka, I didn’t realize just how much our lives would be interwoven with my in-laws. During our first
In today’s horribly fractured political climate in both America and Israel, we need leadership that understands that there is nothing as divisive as winning. Every
Parshat Terumah As our parsha begins detailing the construction and the eventual function of the Mishkan; so too, does our haftarah, describing the construction and
On Bava Kamma 108b, we encounter two versions of a dilemma. The shared scenario is that an animal given to a watchman was stolen in
The courtyard of the Mishkan was 100 אמות long and 50 אמות wide (Shemos 27:18), with the perimeter (besides the entranceway) enclosed by קלעים (lace-like
The previous Rebbe of Lubavitch, Reb Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn once delivered a mind-blowing maamar—complicated and profound, clarifying each person’s experience of that moment in history.
Jewish midrashic literature relates how after Hashem created heaven and earth, He keeps busy by making matches. Not all matches, however, are for the purpose
In Parshat Terumah, Bnei Yisrael are told וְעָ֥שׂוּ לִ֖י מִקְדָּ֑שׁ וְשָֽׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּתוֹכָֽם and “You will make Me (Hashem) a holy place and I (Hashem) will
לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: Today, Friday, our avocados are not quite ready to eat. If they become ripe enough
From the opening lines of Parshat Terumah, we immediately realize that an important shift has taken place in the biblical narrative. Shemot began with the
