Chag Tu B’Shevat At first glance, Tu B’Shevat, the Rosh Hashanah for fruit trees, seems to be of mere technical significance—a calendar marker for the

In addition to gadlus in Torah, Rav Mordechai Gifter, zt”l, rosh yeshiva of Telshe yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio, was a very kind, sensitive soul and

A well-known Talmudic passage (TB Megillah 10b) describes the scene in heaven as the Jews miraculously crossed through the sea. The angels wished to sing

God takes the Jews from Egypt, splits the sea for them, does protective things like that, again and again.   They complain about water, Hashem

How much in life do we take for granted? How often do we pause to say “thank you” or express our gratitude? Judaism, with its

Sanhedrin 57a discusses the Seven Noachide Laws. While most of the Torah and Talmud discuss laws pertaining to Jews, there are certain basic moral assumptions

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I have questions about “lifnei iver” (the prohibition of facilitating another’s aveira; we will call

 וַיֹּאמֶר אִם־שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמַע לְקוֹל יְדוד אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְהַיָּשָׁר בְּעֵינָיו תַּעֲשֶׂה וְהַאֲזַנְתָּ לְמִצְוֺתָיו וְשָׁמַרְתָּ כָּל־חֻקָּיו כָּל־הַמַּחֲלָה אֲשֶׁר־שַׂמְתִּי בְמִצְרַיִם לֹא־אָשִׂים עָלֶיךָ כִּי אֲנִי יְדוד רֹפְאֶךָ׃ “And Hashem said:

There was someone who had walked out of the sanctuary of the shul to where the other men were making kiddush. This time, however, someone

Sanhedrin 19a, 40a You are sitting in your car at the traffic lights one Sunday morning waiting for them to turn green, when opposite you,

After experiencing 10 devastating makkot, Pharaoh finally sent Bnei Yisrael out of Mitzrayim. The midrash illustrates Pharaoh’s reaction after sending them out with a parable:

A number of years ago, when I went in to take our son Michael, then two years old, out of his crib, I was horrified.