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
Jews don’t count people. Instead the Torah creates a system of tabulating the population without actually counting human beings. This indirect counting scheme is delineated
When minyanim restarted again, everyone was so excited. Finally, we’d be back together, charged up to daven with true intensity! And yet…I received a phone
Parshat Naso describes the option to become a nazir, prohibiting oneself from drinking wine (and even eating grapes!), cutting one’s hair and participating in the
In many shuls on Shavuot night, there is a panel of speakers arranged for every hour or so until it comes time for Shacharit. Imagine
In this week’s parsha of Naso we read about the nazir. The nazir was an ascetic who denied himself some of the pleasures of life
In the beginning of Parshat Bamidbar (1:2), Hashem commands Moshe to take a census of Bnei Yisrael. The Torah records the exact number counted, in
A midrash states that at Har Sinai Bnei Yisrael saw hosts of angels organized in ranks with banners. The midrash goes on to say that
The brand-new All Parsha app, from the creators of the immensely popular All Daf, is now available for free download and is poised to take
