January 15, 2025

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Rav Judah Mischel

Rav Judah Mischel is executive director of Camp HASC, the Hebrew Academy for Special Children. He is the mashpiah of OU-NCSY, founder of Tzama Nafshi and the author of “Baderech: Along the Path of Teshuva.” Rav Judah lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh with his wife Ora and their family.

Articles by Rav Judah Mischel

Vayigash: To Draw Close

In the early days, before the Baal Shem Tov haKadosh had publicly revealed his identity to others, he spent time traveling the countryside meeting and

A Zissen Chanukah

There are few among Chasidic masters — and indeed among all Jewish personalities throughout the course of history — as beloved as “Reb Zusia: or

The Ladder of Emunah

The beloved Rav Avrohom Genachovsky, zt’l, Rosh Yeshiva of Kochav mi-Yaakov Tchebin, was a gentle, modest and kind “master of bein adam l’chaveiro.” Agan ha-Sahar”

Your Garment of Choice

Reb Yosef Friedensohn, z”l was a man of faith, a Jewish hero and Holocaust survivor. Literally embodying the indestructibility of klal Yisrael, he had “earned

Yirah

As the last surviving son and successor of the Brisker Rov, Rav Meshulam Dovid HaLevi Soloveitchik, zt’l, was a staunch guardian of derech ha-limud (study

‘How,’ Not ‘If’

Following the fall of the Iron Curtain, a massive number of Russian Jews, largely uneducated in Jewish tradition, immigrated to Eretz Yisrael. With loving concern,

Shabbos Zachor: Never Forget

The heiligeh Rebbe Dovid of Dinov was a brilliant scholar, charismatic darshan and miracle worker. The son of Reb Zvi Elimelech, the Bnei Yisaschar, he

Join Me

Educated in Frankfurt am Main and in the great yeshivas of Lithuania, Rav Shimon Schwab was a talmid chacham and traditionalist interpreter of the path

Holy Garments

A devoted zoo keeper, in a small town, faced a major challenge: the gorilla had died suddenly, leaving them without one of their most exciting

Perfectly Imperfect

The previous Rebbe of Lubavitch, Reb Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn once delivered a mind-blowing maamar—complicated and profound, clarifying each person’s experience of that moment in history.

The Greatness of Man

Mid-nineteenth century Eastern European Jewry saw the founding of the mussar movement. This represented a paradigm shift in which attention and education turned to emphasize

One People

Reb Chaim Elazar Spira, the Munkatcher Rebbe, was a tzadik and gaon of unusual piety known after his multi-volume Minchas Elazar. An expression of his