This week’s parsha begins with the mitzvah of bikur cholim (visiting the sick) when Yosef visits Yaakov. Our sages teach that visiting the sick is

Here is our last Chanukah 5785 installment. Looking back, we can imagine what a Chanukah miracle would look like today. In the original Chanukah miracle,

Do you know that your electronic devices light Chanukah menorahs? Not only that, they do it much more often than we do. We only light

Chanukah is an eight day holiday, so that means there must be a time when we are halfway through it. So that’s the end of

Can abstract mathematics help solve real challenges in Orthodox communal life? That’s a question I have been answering over the past year. I had decided

Here’s another math problem to prepare for Chanukah. One day during Chanukah, Sarah overheard two of her friends talking: Rivky said, “My family lit a

Chanukah is coming up soon and that means we will see the number eight a lot. We have eight days and eight candles on the

In this week’s parsha, Yitzhak and his family settle for some time in Gerar, a city along the southern coast of Eretz Yisrael. The pasukim

In this week’s parsha, Rivka did the amazing act of chesed of watering all of Eliezer’s camels. Did you ever think about the total distance

In this week’s parsha, we learn how Avraham and Lot were very different. One way was how they lived. Avraham lived in a tent and

At the end of this week’s parsha, Hashem gives Avraham the mitzvah of brit milah. We know that a brit milah happens when a baby

In Parshat Noach we learn Hashem told Noach to build an ark according to a measurement called an amah. We usually translate this as “a