(Courtesy of SAR HS) As a prelude to Yom Kippur, SAR High School Founding Principal Rabbi Tully Harcsztark took the stage for his annual schoolwide
Kiddushin 49a discusses conditional betrothal. If I betroth on condition that I’m a Kohen, but I am really a Levi, there’s no betrothal. The same
“Here comes Yosef, that self-righteous annoying little tittle-tattler,” his brothers say as they notice him off in the distance bringing them provisions. “We’re nowhere near
Often life’s greatest treasures await those willing to mine the depths far beneath the surface. This truth in the physical world is far more apparent
And so Moses dies, alone on a mountain with God as he had been all those years ago when, as a shepherd in Midian, he
We all wonder about those long lifespans recorded at the beginning of Genesis. For example, we are told that Adam lived 930 years, that Shet
“Maalin bakodesh” were the words of the Skverer Rebbe, shlita, when he was informed about the new Amud HaYomi program that promises to have a
The Yom Kippur War merged tragedy and triumph, leaving us in a confusing state of sorrow mixed with joy. Initially stunned by a surprise attack,
Rabbanit Shira Zimmerman would like new olot—or female immigrants to Israel—to have what was not available to her when she made aliyah 20 years ago:
The teshuva process can be very vague and elusive. Unwilling to confront our own flaws and face the unpleasant truths of our past, we often
Last year, as I got up to give the Shabbos Shuvah drasha in our yeshiva, it dawned on me that most of the people there
Parshat Haazinu As is true with Shabbat parashat Devarim (“Chazon”) and Shabbat parshat Vaetchanan (“Nachamu”), the first word of this week’s haftarah also lends its
