This week’s Torah portion is Shelach, where the mitzvah of tzitzit—and the blue string of Tekhelet that hangs from them—is recorded. The nonprofit organization Ptil

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Yoma 33A He must be a very important person to get such an important mitzvah, I heard them say, as Mr. Lowenstein, the local assemblyman,

I joined up with some friends to treat another friend of our group to a delicious restaurant meal on his birthday. To add to the

This parsha discusses two outstanding events in our history that seem to be in direct contrast to each other. On the one hand we have

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The late Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski, zt”l, once began a lecture on addiction by asking a question. If Noah was a tzaddik, as described by

I recently discovered and then rediscovered an ancient healing prayer. I first learned of it a few years ago in a personal context, and then

(Courtesy of FountainView) Shecheyunu vhigiyunu lazman hazeh! Boruch Hashem, Agra has resumed at FountainView. After a long 15 months of attendees only being able to

Leora and Layla, two friends, had been asked by their parents to take their younger sisters to soccer practice. They got there really early, so