The giving of the Torah in the midbar gives me the opportunity to address this interesting word. It is very easy to intuit that the

There was a time in my college days when I seriously considered majoring in philosophy. The rabbinic training program in the yeshiva that I attended

Several years ago, a terrorist attempted to kill a Jewish boy in the center of Jerusalem. Thank God, the boy was only slightly wounded. People

I have long believed that all conflicts between people could be settled if the parties to the dispute would agree to simply sit down together

“They don’t make them the way they used to.” We have all heard this comment with reference to all sorts of things, usually tools and

With this week’s Parshat Va’eira, the Torah begins to report the 10 plagues that Hashem inflicted on Egypt to convince Pharaoh to release the Israelites

This week’s parshah uses the term navi. (See Ex. 7:1). This gives me the opportunity to explore the meaning of this unusual word. In English,

The two old men couldn’t have been more different from each other. Yet, they both taught me the identical life lesson. The first, a cagey

At the beginning of this week’s parshah, the word milchama is used. This gives me the opportunity to answer the question that has surely been

In my opinion, it most certainly was NOT Ramesses II, despite what many historians claim. According to 1 Kings 6:1, Solomon built the Temple in

We all have received blessings at one time or another. We have certainly received compliments. Over the course of time, we learn that sometimes the

This Shabbos we conclude the book of Bereishit, which culminates with the resolution of the story of Yosef and his brothers. Four rather involved parshiot