To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
In this week’s parsha of Vayeitzei we read about Yaakov’s famous dream at Beit El. He dreamed of the ladder that reached between Heaven and
In this week’s parsha of Vayeitzei we read about Yaakov’s famous dream at Beit El. He dreamed of the ladder that reached between Heaven and
Rosh Hashanah 29b Rosh Hashanah without the shofar, Sukkot without the lulav, or Purim without the megillah is like a play without the main character.
“I felt like I was in the lishkas hagazis of Lakewood,” said one Daf HaYomi B’Halacha magid shiur, after attending a unique, unprecedented gathering of
Part II (continued from last week) Shehakol vs. Mezonot As a De Facto Bracha The Chayei Adam (49:2) and many others write that b’bieved, a
We know precious little about Yitzchak’s life. Unlike his father and his son, he lived a very pedestrian lifestyle, waging no wars, never traveling abroad
If LeBron James stops playing basketball, who is he? Is what I do really who I am? And if that’s all there is to it,
Parshat Toldot The Sefer Malachi from which our haftarah is taken is one shrouded in mystery—both regarding the navi himself as well as his message
If we analyze the pattern of Jewish wealth over history, we see the following: Whenever Jews became very successful, persecution began, with governments seizing Jewish
A gentleman recently shared a few words with me. He asked me what emet means. He then went into a short story about how one
Most people are unaware that the founder of Klein’s Ice Cream, Rabbi Efraim Klein, a”h, was a Holocaust survivor who had lost his whole family
“Isaac loved Esav…but Rebecca loved Jacob.” (Genesis 25:28) It’s not difficult to understand why Rebecca loved Jacob. He was a parent’s dream child, studious and
The stories of Bereishit chronicle Jewish selection and the birth of our historical mission. Facing a violent world of moral degeneracy and religious chaos, Hashem