Parshat Tazria-Metzora: Striving for Positive Speech
How many minutes a day do you speak on the phone or talk to someone in person? We spend so many of our waking hours
April 23, 2025
How many minutes a day do you speak on the phone or talk to someone in person? We spend so many of our waking hours
The matzahs are eaten, the chametz is back. Pesach is now “back on the shelf” until next year. Our current focus is the Pesach sequel:
The Pesach Seder coming up very soon at a home near you will not be offering a different story. Still, the bookstore will no doubt
The Jewish calendar is the only calendar that has two days of New Year in every year! The first one is Rosh Hashana (Alef Tishrei),
Parshat Vayakhel-Pekudei From the president on down, Americans are very attached to their money. They don’t part with it so willingly. They feel this even
The Jewish year comes to a close with Adar (using the prescribed method for counting months, which starts with Nisan). With the close of this
This dvar Torah is dedicated l’iluy nishmat my mother, Miriam Mirel bas Shalom, a”h, whose yahrtzeit is this Shabbos, the 13th of Adar. Kids absolutely
Who would you make “the face of the Jewish people”? Would it be Yaakov Avinu, whose face was engraved on the Throne of Glory? Would
When Hashem told Moshe to collect a machatzit hashekel (a certain coin) from every Jew over the age of 20, He commanded: “Zeh yitnu”—This is
As my wife and I passed by the ladies’ shoe department in a large department store, we saw hundreds of pairs of beautifully displayed expensive
Our sefer/parsha is known as the Book of Names, on the surface because it deals with names: the shevatim (tribes), Moshe Rabbeinu and Hashem. However,
What an emotional scene plays out before us when Yosef is reunited with Binyamin, his long-lost blood brother, whom he has not seen in 22
