Isn’t it interesting that two people can witness the same event and be affected in completely opposite ways? The great sage, Rebbi Yochanan, was swimming

This dvar Torah is dedicated l’ilui nishmas my mother, Miriam Mirel bas Shalom, a”h, whose yahrzeit is on the 13th of Adar. It’s hard to

For many years now, I’ve been bothered with a question that I know many have asked. Hashem performed incredible miracles for the Bnei Yisrael as

We live in a funny world, where contradictions live side-by-side and most of the time we hardly take notice. Our generation towers over others in

Timeless life lessons can come from surprising sources, even children’s books. My grandmother really enjoyed reading to me “The Little Engine That Could.” It’s a

Childhood memories are by far the most vivid. Decades later, they remain fresh in our minds. I can still remember the first time I saw

The power of connecting to others and bringing the welfare of other people into our consciousness is demonstrated by a very powerful anomaly that occurred

Tick tock, tick tock—that sound has been removed from most people’s lives with the influx of digital clocks and cellphones. The passage of time is

I met up with a Passaic friend recently who said he had “no life” for the past three years. Indeed, it was a while since

The Torah recounts a puzzling episode when Moshe returns to Mitzrayim with the mission to lead the Bnei Yisrael out of Egypt. The verse says:

Last week, Rabbi Stechler asked me to bring a few young men from Yeshiva Heichal HaTorah (where I give a morning shiur) to form a

Yehuda was struggling with his recent interactions with the viceroy of Egypt (really his brother Yosef). Nothing was adding up. The interrogations, the returned money