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
In Parshat Ki Tisa, Moshe asked Hashem the age-old question: “Please make your ways known to me so that I can understand you.” The Gemara
The past year shook the world. Humanity faced a pandemic, the likes of which only occurs every hundred years. Locked in battle with an invisible
Last year on Shabbat Parshat Mishpatim, the Agudas Yisrael Bircas Yaakov, a shul in the Passaic/Clifton community, hosted a Shabbat with singer Shulem Lemmer. It
I once heard a story from R’ Zecharia Wallerstein, about two friends who were once on an expedition to climb a tall mountain. Into their
Pesachim 44b If the Torah does not wish us to mix meat and milk, why not just say so? How, one may ask, are we
The roster of presidents of the United States might be quite different had every potential presidential candidate studied the Daf Yomi that will be studied
In last week’s Parshat Yitro, the Torah recounts Am Yisrael’s response to what they saw and heard at Har Sinai: “And all the people perceived
700-page sefer contains more than 6,000 categories and 30,000 subcategories and an English index. “We have to make the bracha of Shehechiyanu on such a
