“By the work one knows the workmen.” -Jean De La Fontaine It is not coincidental that the Menorah (the Candelabrum) mentioned in this week’s parsha

One of the things I appreciate most about Judaism is that with each Yom Tov we have the opportunity to take time and reflect on

This article was originally written about one year ago, when a new virus from Wuhan was just starting to make the news, and whose destructive

So much of Parshat Tetzaveh appears out of place. The bulk of Tetzaveh deals with the special clothing worn by the kohen gadol and the

Pesachim 107a Just because God has given us a weekly, lifetime subscription to paradise, that does not mean that we may take the Shabbat for

After the miraculous sequence of events in the Purim story, the Gemara (Shabbat 88) writes that at that moment there was a dramatic turnaround in

Amalek attacked us at our most vulnerable moment. Viciously assaulting the newly freed slaves in an empty wilderness, the cruel guerrilla armies of Amalek were

A few weeks ago, a man who truly gave from his heart to family, friends, plus thousands of others in the local Clifton-Passaic community, around

Parshat Terumah focuses on the details of the construction of the Mishkan. God tells Moshe, “They shall make a Sanctuary for Me so that I

The parsha begins with the subject of donations toward the building of the Mishkan, with Hashem saying “take for Me a donation” from those who

We know the sun rises every morning and sets every evening, and we trust that this will happen again tomorrow simply because it always has.

In days such as ours, Purim speaks to us in a different—and necessary—way. On Purim things get all turned around. It’s a theme of the