In August 2001 my sister and I spent several weekends cleaning out our mother’s apartment after she died unexpectedly. That experience was firsthand training for

Part 30 (written 2004) (Continued from previous week) To test the waters, I accepted a position as an extern in the professional department of the

My son Daniel came home with a gerbil the other day. These kids pick up the weirdest things in school. Yes, his morah sent it

Goodwill, good-looking, goodness, scattergood and goodbye. The word “good” is all around us but among Jews the word “good” is most famously half of the

We all do it. None of us wants to be judgmental, but at times we are. Recently, upon visiting a family member in the hospital,

Roshei Yeshiva highlight importance of Dirshu Kitzur Shulchan Aruch program at asifa at home of Sanzer Rebbe, shlita. Two pivotal meetings to highlight Dirshu’s new

May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Zevachim 45.

A Sephardic Jew who receives an aliyah to the Torah first recites “Hashem Imachem” (“May God be with you”). The congregation then responds, “Yevarechecha Hashem”

It is time to address some Nach and canon-related issues. The Talmud (Baba Batra 14b) lists 19 Nach books: eight in the Neviim and 11

(Courtesy of Kollel Chatzos) Sometimes, the most painful sound is silence. When the phones have stopped ringing because shadchanim have stopped calling. When the house

Years ago, after successfully traversing one of the challenges Hashem sent my way, I recognized that in my avodat Hashem I leaned heavily on the

Parshat Beha’alotcha The haftarah this week centers upon the menorah, details of which open our parsha as well, hence Chazal’s choice to read this vision