One could be forgiven for feeling jaded by incessant requests to fund organizations and individuals. After all, we are all inundated by tzedakah letters on

Imagine it’s December 1932, and you’re preparing to light Chanukah candles in Kiel, Germany, where, across the street, stands the headquarters of the Nazi Party.

וַיְדַבְּרוּ אֵלָיו אֵת כָּל דִּבְרֵי יוֹסֵף אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר אֲלֵהֶם וַיַּרְא אֶת הָעֲגָלוֹת אֲשֶׁר שָׁלַח יוֹסֵף לָשֵׂאת אֹתוֹ וַתְּחִי רוּחַ יַעֲקֹב אֲבִיהֶם – And they told

So now, my son, heed my voice and arise; flee to my brother Lavan, to Charan (Bereishit 27:43). Unlike Pharaoh, who declared death upon Jewish

What is unique about the qualities of the dove that succeeded in fulfilling Noach’s mission, returning with an olive branch? Rav Shlomo Pesach Toperoff, z”tl,