Many children are candy lovers, and when it comes to Shabbat, I feel that is the most suitable time to fulfill that desire for the
The mishna on Bava Batra 64b discusses someone who sells his house without explicitly mentioning in the contract that he’s also selling the cistern on
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
What should our community look like in practice? How might the different pieces discussed in my previous columns — the lesson of Creation, the message
The Torah mentions the borders of the Promised Land five times, but only gives specifics once. The other four times, the markers provided are quite
Parshat Re’eh עניה סערה לא נוחמה This week’s haftorah is the fourth of the “sheva de nechemta” and yet, its very first phrase “O, you
כִּי יַכְרִית יְדֹוָד אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֶת הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה בָא שָׁמָּה לָרֶשֶׁת אוֹתָם מִפָּנֶיךָ וְיָרַשְׁתָּ אֹתָם וְיָשַׁבְתָּ בְּאַרְצָם: הִשָּׁמֶר לְךָ פֶּן תִּנָּקֵשׁ אַחֲרֵיהֶם אַחֲרֵי הִשָּׁמְדָם מִפָּנֶיךָ
I wonder if others have had this experience too. Before Tisha B’Av, I was listening to a lecture about the importance of being nosei b’ol
Rav Yehoshua Eizek Shapiro of Slonim, zt”l—known as Rav Eizel Charif—was a phenomenal gaon, the rosh yeshiva in Minsk, and served as the rav of
In our parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu tells Bnei Yisrael about the phenomenon of a false prophet: “If there should stand up in your midst a prophet
We are still within the year of mourning for the losses that began on October 7 and continue on all too many tragic days, during
This week’s parsha opens with the verses, “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse. The blessing, that you will listen to
