Last year, my friend Leibe Leichter had a flight that was canceled. He didn’t receive a refund after a reasonable time, so he spoke to
The Talmud Yerushalmi writes that kibud av v’em, honoring parents, is of the loftiest of mitzvos. A person is exempt from the observance of other
There is an expression, “ma’aseh avot siman la’bonim,” the actions of our forefathers are a lesson for us now. In parshas Vayechi (48:8-10), we read
At the end of Parshat Vayechi—which of course is also the end of Sefer Bereishit—Yosef tells his brothers that Egypt is only a temporary stop.
In Parshat Vayechi, Yaakov knows that he is going to die soon. His time in this world is coming to an end and he wants
In our parsha, Yaakov says: “Red eyed from wine, and white toothed from milk.” The Gemara (Ketubot 111) quotes Rav Dimi who explains that this
Last Thursday night, an international Kiddush Hashem was on full display at the new Event Space in Brookhaven Mall in Passaic host to Zichru 1000.
How could they? How could such moral people — who founded an ethical lifestyle of kindness and compassion — act so cruelly toward one another.
All of us cringe at some of the unwise things we’ve done. I remember spending a week’s vacation with friends in Tzefas. One night, as
Ya’akov is anxious. Frightened. Scared. He is about to leave Israel, the land he knows is his one true home, and depart for the depraved
Upon revealing his identity to his brothers, Yosef tells them “don’t be sad.” This remark implies that the brothers were sad and distressed. But they
Aufruf 1. Aufruf is a Yiddish term which means calling up. It refers to the calling up of the groom to the Torah prior to
