Holidays

Ari Fuld uncovers and explores the real miracle and lessons of Chanukah.

Wishing you a joyous Chanukah

Reb Yisrael and his sons erected their sukkah adjacent to the kitchen door of their palatial home in one of the Five Towns, as they had done for many years in the past...

What have you achieved this past year with the help of God, and what would you like to achieve with His help next year?

How does Yom Kippur help us focus on the future and on making a change?

The pasuk implies that only after Hashem extends his rachamim to this person and he is able to remain a compassionate person, will Hashem have rachmanus on him.

Tisha Be’Av asks the ultimate questions, the same ones which Job confronted: Why do we lose what is most precious? Why do we suffer?

The Jewish national period of mourning.

17th of Tammuz: Beginning 3 weeks of mourning for the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach

The forty-nine days of sefiras ha’omer parallel the forty-nine-day process that the Jewish People went through upon leaving Egypt, before receiving the Torah. What is the meaning behind this process?

Wishing all a wonderful Holiday-

Lag B’Omer is a remarkable enigma which presents a remarkable opportunity

What Tony Robbins is teaching in the 21st century, Judaism has taught since its inception thousands of years ago.

Our best defence is not abstract principle but specific memory

"A Yid has hope. This Yarmulke gave me hope during the Holocaust.”

No one wants challenges and painful times, but amazingly, often after people have endured such situations, they will assert that now that it happened, they wouldn’t trade the experience.

If the ten days from Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur are Days of Awe,I would posit that the days from Purim to Passover are Days of Love.

It is incumbent upon every parent to prepare a “lesson plan” of meaningful Torah directions to give over to their family on this most meaningful night.

Ari Fuld discusses: What are we celebrating on Passover and what are the lessons to be learned?

There is no Jewish holiday and no Jewish experience that more divides the “haves” from the “have-nots” than Pesach.

Pesach is the birthday celebration of the emergence of our people into the international arena

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Wishing everyone a joyous Purim!

Mordechai understood the antidote: To stand firm, to stand strong, and to stand as a proud Jew, a Torah Jew. BE AN ISH YEHUDI, A PROUD JEW!

I am front and center for better or worse. And although I am naturally more comfortable sitting in the crowd than being up front, such is the role Hashem gave me, for better or worse. However, at the aufruf, wedding, and Sheva Brachos, I found myself primarily in a new role.

A bottle of wine is big and heavy, and when you give dozens of mishloach manos to friends and relatives, it can get quite expensive and tedious. Thankfully, the selection of smaller wine bottles and cans has grown tremendously.

Why 127 provinces? Well, that’s because Hashem wants to give us all the support and merit we can get. Sarah Emainu lived 127 years and Hashem wanted the merit of Sarah to bolster the efforts of Esther HaMalka who was queen over 127 provinces.

A great thing creates great strengths, however great strengths sometimes create confusion