Don’t Lose Focus

A tragedy occurred. Jews were targeted and murdered because they were Jews. Our focus should not be who indirectly caused this to transpire.

On Judaism And Islam

Hidden beneath the surface of Parshat Chayei Sarah, for example, is another story, alluded to only in a series of hints. Here are three clues in the text...

Boundless Love

Cold-blooded, fanatical, baseless, relentless hatred can be uprooted from its core only by saturating our world with pure, undiscriminating, unyielding love and acts of kindness.

Choosing Human Hospitality

Learning to honor G-d by honoring those made in His image: Humankind.

Mama Rachel

Rachel, our loving mother, still lays buried near Bethlehem. Though she was buried along the road, today her grave is included in the city proper, yet it is still far from the grave of her husband Yaakov Avinu.

Moving Out, Moving On

An outsider might expect that we would have moved out long ago, but we had put down roots there. We were educating our children there and it was where we intended to remain.

Four Dimensions Of The Journey

Abraham gave birth to a new nation whose greatness consisted precisely in the ability to live by that voice and create something new in the history of mankind. “Go for yourself ” – believe in what you can become.

Generations

When a child is born and we give them a name, we really have no idea how this child will develop and in which way this little neshama will grow.

Unlikely Messenger, Unexpected Message

Hopefully this story will also strengthen our motivation to try to be mikarev a fellow Jew – even if it seems on the outside like it's a lost cause and there's no use in even trying.

The Objective Basis For Morality

Recently, an entirely new scientific basis has been given to morality from two surprising directions: neo-Darwinism and the branch of mathematics known as Games theory. As we will see, the discovery is intimately related to the story of Noah and the covenant made between G-d and humanity after the Flood.

Praying For Someone Else

Does G-d answer our prayers? Definitely! Sometimes the answer is "Yes" and sometimes it's "No." And whatever God's answer, it's always what's best for us.

The Rubashkin Saga – XVIII

Another installment in the ongoing Rubashkin saga

Stitches In Time

It was the night of Motzei Shabbos before Rosh Hashana, and my husband and I were invited to a pidyon haben in Lawrence at...

The Three Stages Of Creation

At the opening of the Torah, at the very beginning of creation, is foreshadowed the Jewish doctrine of revelation: that God reveals Himself to humanity not in the sun, the stars, the wind or the storm but in and through words – sacred words that make us co-partners with God in the work of redemption.

Beginnings

When should we be tough, soft, when are we truly honest with ourselves and our surroundings? And when are we just putting on a show.

A Humorous Simchas Torah Puzzle

Our daughter and son-in-law looked at each other for a second and then burst out laughing. They knew!

True Happiness

We will never find happiness when all we see is the surface of life, without examining its core.

Moses’ Death, Moses’ Life

And so Moses dies, alone on a mountain with God as he had been all those years ago when, as a shepherd...

The Missing Mezuzos

In Eretz Yisrael, it is customary not to remain in a house without a mezuzah for even one day. This placed the rav in a quandary. What were they to do?

G-d’s love

There are so many examples of something that looks harsh or not pleasant when in fact it is for the benefit of the individual suffering.

Maybe Next Yom Kippur

Truth be told, my kavanah was often better in the privacy of my home.

Asseres Yemei Teshuvah

The Emek Berachah explains that indeed after Rosh Hashanah the din is sealed and one is only judged on his actions of the previous year.

Living In G-d’s Backyard

Life in this special land can be difficult. Sometimes what makes it so hard is not so much the physical work but the mental and spiritual work.

Rabbi Sacks: Parshat Vayelech: The Second Mountain

So, as Moses faced his own life’s end, what was there left to do? The book of Devarim contains and constitutes the answer.

The Call Of The Shofar, Interrupted

The Hatzalah volunteers administered oxygen and got the family to the hospital. B’ezrat Hashem they will all be O.K.”

Rosh Hashanah On 9/11: Coincidence?

In the aftermath of 9/11 many people were fearful of another terrorist attack. Indeed, from that day on we entered into a new era of global terrorism.

The World Is Waiting For You

The terms of Jewish history were about to shift from Divine initiative to human initiative. This is what Moses was preparing the Israelites for in the last month of his life. This is the epic significance of Nitzavim

Hakoras Hatov

I endured a personal trial as I struggled to become a mother. In a community where just about every event is geared toward families, I felt the pain of not fitting in.

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