This past week we celebrated Yom Yerushalayim, marking the 54th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification. Yom Yerushalayim usually falls out before or after we read Parshat
When Maya and her siblings got home from school on Friday, they saw that a great rabbi had come to visit from Israel. They were
It has been a week of tears and of numbness. Every time I read the list of 45 I become dizzy and faint, wincing in
Levi was a student in Yeshiva Kol Torah in Eretz Yisrael. Alas, Levi made some bad choices, adopted some regrettable behaviors, and was duly warned.
אם בחוקותי תלכו—“If you will go in my statutes.” Rashi explains this is a reference to “toiling in Torah” [“שתהיו עמלים בתורה”]. Why doesn’t the
The Beraita tells us in Masechet Megillah, “Rabbi Shimon Ben Elazar said: Ezra enacted that the Jews should read the tochacha (rebuke) in Bechukotai two
We are about to observe the secular holiday of Mother’s Day. To some it is only a Hallmark card tradition. To others it is a
(Courtesy of Cincinnati Kollel) The Cincinnati Community Kollel is excited to announce a new Mishna Yomi Shiur via WhatsApp starting the day after Shavuos. Take
All rise! What passes for popular understanding of synagogue rituals is often at variance with its true and halachic significance. A case in point is
Yoma 11a You have found the house of your choice for the month of August. You were involved in a skiing accident and you are
It was sports day at school and Rivka won a lot of games and got a lot of pom poms. She walked over to Lisa
The festival of Lag B’Omer revolves around two celebrated personalities: Rabbi Akiva and his talmid, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. These two legends lived through the
