
To Get Up and Keep Going
Eden Dawi is the older sister of Ro’i Dawi, who was killed last year together with 10 other soldiers when their armored personnel carrier was
Eden Dawi is the older sister of Ro’i Dawi, who was killed last year together with 10 other soldiers when their armored personnel carrier was
זכותה של בת לרשת; Bava Batra 110a, 115a and 139b The Jewish Law of Inheritance provides that those heirs, whom the Torah deems to be
Parshat Chayei Sarah is unusual in that it devotes an inordinate amount of space to Avraham’s servant rearticulating to Rivka’s family the instructions he received
Our forefather Avraham did not have an easy life. From his earliest days, Avraham was a monotheist in a hostile polytheistic world. Rashi writes that
When a famous person passes away, any newspaper of record will try to capture the life and accomplishments of that person in a news article
Our Matriarch Sarah is eternally recognized as a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality, generosity, and beauty. By every measure, the well-known quote “Behind every
There is an image that haunts us across the millennia, fraught with emotion. It is the image of a man and his son walking side-by-side,
You may have noticed various practices regarding whether the sefer Torah should be opened or closed when reciting the bracha. Let us explore how these
Avraham’s journey introduced two fundamental traditions. For nearly 2,000 years, Hashem had seemed remote and withdrawn from humanity. Dwelling in the heavens, He rarely conversed
There are very few feelings in life that leave us more challenged, hurt and insecure than the feeling we get from being ignored. Part of
Parshat Vayeira “ … V’Torat chesed al l’shona.” The events we read of in this week’s haftarah—a selection from the fourth perek in Melachim Bet—bear
During my first six years of marriage, I lived in a neighborhood in Yerushalayim called Maalot Dafna, near East Jerusalem. Very early each morning I