Hashem Rewards Us When We Upgrade Our Lives
Around this time last year, I went to Los Angeles with my wife for a weekend to celebrate a family simcha. Our only time in
Around this time last year, I went to Los Angeles with my wife for a weekend to celebrate a family simcha. Our only time in
Yishun Yud Bet Chodesh for Non-Kosher Wine TABC Talmidim Eli Lefkowitz and Ari Herman posed an interesting question. We learned that Ashkenazim follow the Chochmat
We had been enslaved for the better part of two centuries by an oppressive nation ruled by an arrogant tyrant. To humble the Egyptians and
Parashat Va’era In previous essays, I have pointed out that the prophetic messages found in the weekly haftarot can be better understood by taking note
When the new Pharaoh came onto the scene (Shemos 1:8), his expressed fear was that if a war breaks out, “the nation of the Children
An Unhappy Place Even though happiness is “the ultimate good at which all humans aim” (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1), the world has become a
Rav Yirmeya miDifti is a sixth-generation Amora appearing often in the Talmud. By examining his interactions with other Amoraim, we can guess as to his
לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: If I wake up not long before sof z’man tefillah (szt – a third into
Rav Aharon Kotler, zt’l, the renowned ga’on and rosh yeshiva, was the founder of Beis Medrash Govoha in Lakewood. One of Gedolei haDor, Reb Aharon
Integrity is a basic value to which our Sages attached great value, even referring to it as m’yesodei hanefesh, a foundation of the soul (Shaarei
It’s perhaps the most rabbinic word in the dictionary. If a person has aspirations to become a rabbi, aside from knowing halacha and how to
In honor of my grandson Dovi Leff’s bar mitzvah this Shabbos. The second plague which God brought upon the Egyptians was frogs. They invaded Egypt,