Iyar is the only month where the religious experience today is the opposite of what it was designated to be in Biblical times. Iyar in
While in other faiths the men of the cloth preside over death and dying by administering last rites, the priestly class of Klal Yisrael—the Kohanim—were
As a child I used to love riding on an escalator. I would race my brother from the bottom to the top of the downward
Once, the famed Mashgiach of Mir—Rav Yerucham Levovitz—met an irreligious German professor, and Rav Yerucham attempted to draw this person back to Torah. The professor
One of the most difficult concepts to deal with is the Torah’s admonition in this week’s parsha to not follow in the ways of the
A friend recently shared a picture of a group of Jews being led to the concentration camps and then directly underneath was another picture of
This week is a double parsha of Acharei Mot and Kedoshim. Parshat Acharei Mot starts with the words Hashem spoke to Moshe after the death
It is a topic that is often under much discussion in Israel. What should citizens do after they have neutralized, so to speak, someone who
Our parsha contains two juxtaposed mitzvot with seemingly no connection between them: “When you slaughter a peace offering to the Lord, you shall slaughter it
Israeli society is currently entangled in a complex web of controversial issues. The core debate surrounds the future of Israeli democracy, judicial reform and the
Last year during Chol Hamoed Pesach, my recently married daughter and son-in-law were flying to Florida to join his family for the last days of
They are barely 12 years old, they refer to themselves as an “internet startup,” and they lack the deep resources of Jewish communal juggernauts like
