In Bava Metzia 17b, Mar Kashisha b. Rav Chisda speaks to Rav Ashi to question Abaye’s apparent assumption that a widow after a mere betrothal
I am sure there are times when you have put so much effort into something and you feel it has gone unnoticed. It seems that
“LaYehudim haysa orah v’simcha, the Jews experienced light and joy.” We have entered the second month of Adar, a time when our feelings of joy
How are we to respond when anti-Israel activists accuse the Jewish people of stealing the land from the Palestinians? It’s simple. We invite them to
A number of years ago, a friend of mine married a woman from a very upscale neighborhood. After a few months of Shabbos and Yom
Who is the greatest artist of them all? The Gemara in Megillah (14a) as well as in Brachos (10a) informs us that the greatest artist
The midrash (Shemot Rabbah 52:3) in our parsha relates a powerful story that may highlight the extraordinary merit and value of learning Torah when things
We all know this root אמן. It appears dozens of times in Tanach in words like אמונה and נאמן. It has meanings related to “trust,
Metula, Israel’s northernmost city, which abuts the border with Lebanon, was desolate last Thursday morning, due to barrages of deadly rocket fire. Some might find
Amongst my cherished and earliest childhood memories is the sense of peaceful tranquility that set in each Friday night as I walked hand-in-hand with my
Our natural tendency this Purim will be to focus on the character of Haman the Amalekite. Rarely, in recent memory, have we confronted the full
Part I From the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944 until the early 1950s, the surviving remnant of European Jewry received aid from various
