A society in which technology enables us to deal effortlessly with many of life’s difficulties raises the issue of the value of challenges and struggles.

The Jewish people sinned doubly, as it says, “Cheit chatah Yerushalayim – (The people of) Jerusalem sinned a sin” (Eicha 1:8). And they were punished

The korban todah, Thanksgiving offering, is basically a shelamim, a peace offering. But unlike any other shelamim it is brought with four different types of

In honor of my grandson Dovi Leff’s bar mitzvah this Shabbos. The second plague which God brought upon the Egyptians was frogs. They invaded Egypt,

After the 98 curses that Bnei Yisrael heard at the end of Ki Tavo, they were devastated and questioned whether they could possibly withstand such

“And Hashem spoke to Moshe in the Sinai desert, ‘Anyone who does not make himself ownerless like the desert cannot acquire wisdom or Torah, and

“Not like Avraham who called the Beis Hamikdash ‘mountain,’ and not like Yitzchok who called it ‘field’ but rather like Ya’akov who called it ‘house’”

Parashat Re’eh opens with: “See I have put before you today a blessing and a curse.” The Sforno (Shemot 20:15) explains that wherever the Torah

The nazir, one who vows not to drink wine, is elevated to a level of holiness similar to that of the Kohen Gadol. Like the

“Now, if You would, please forgive their sin. If not, You can blot me out from the book that You have written.” (Shemot 32:32) Moshe’s

“…And he [Yaakov] saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to transport him, then the spirit of their father Yaakov was revived.” (Bereishit 45:27) From