Do you have any idea how hard it is for your rabbi to concentrate on his davening? Kavana—the maintenance of clear focus during tefillah—is a

Do you live in a God neighborhood? No, that was not a typo. Hashem is often referred to as the Shechina, a term which is

Unconditional love. We know what that means when it comes to our relationships with family members and friends. What does it mean when it comes

Even if you can’t have it, you should still want it. That line may sound like the opposite of the 10th commandment,“lo tachmod,” that warns

Do impressions matter? Is it our sole concern to do the right thing, or should we care about what others think about our choices? Our

As Torah-observant Jews, do we just do different things? How personally transformative is our faith and practice? Judaism rises and falls on this question. Klal

Klal Yisrael is rightfully obsessed with the work of chinuch, education. Both Moshe and Avraham are compared to Bilaam, as our Sages likened the quality

Life can be boring—even mind-numbing—-if we keep doing the same thing day after day. While doing things without thinking may be helpful for multi-tasking, it

A primary role of the Levi’im—the one that we most readily associate with them—is that of musicians, meshorerim, who enhanced the Temple offerings with their

On May 13, 1948, one day before the termination of the British mandate of Palestine, as the last British column was leaving the Old City,