Charity on the Kinneret: Tiberias Soup Kitchen Serves Hot Food Seasoned with Kindness Meir Panim’s Tiberias Free Restaurant not only provides warm meals, but the opportunity to socialize as well.
Posted on: July 17th, 2013
Judaism → Halacha & HashkafaChametz On Shabbos Erev Pesach (Pesachim 32a)
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Q & A: Kiddush Levanah, Repeating Verses Three Times (Part IV)
Posted on: July 17th, 2013
Judaism → Ask the RabbiQuestion: I have numerous questions about Kiddush Levanah. First, why is this prayer called Kiddush Levanah? Shouldn’t it be called Chiddush Levanah considering that the prayer concerns the renewal – not the sanctification – of the moon? Second, why do we greet each other with the words Shalom Aleichem at Kiddush Levanah and why do we repeat the greeting three times? Is it because we have not seen a new moon for a whole month? Third, why does Kiddush Levanah – and other prayers – contain verses (aside from the Shalom Aleichem greeting) that we are supposed to say three times? Please elaborate on this mitzvah. Ira Warshansky (Via E-Mail)
Posted on: July 17th, 2013
Judaism → Halacha & HashkafaTiferes Torah Synagogue needed a new Sefer Torah and embarked on a Sefer Torah campaign among its members.
Posted on: July 17th, 2013
Judaism → Columns → Lessons In EmunahA few short months ago I lost my one and only uncle. He was very special and a great void was felt. He left a wonderful wife, children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren – and, Baruch Hashem, even some great-great-grandchildren.
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Shabbos Chazon: Light in the Darkness
Posted on: July 11th, 2013
Judaism → ParshaWhy do we call this Shabbos, Shabbos Chazon? The word chazon is the first word of the haftarah and it means to see, to experience a vision. If that is the reason we have to ask what is so special about this word?
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The Nechama of Three And Seven
Posted on: July 11th, 2013
Judaism → Parshaתשעה באב always falls between the parshiyot of Devarim and V’etchanan. This is very appropriate, because in the parsha of Devarim we read of חטא המרגלים, and the gratuitous crying which prompted the Almighty to say that He would one day give us good reason to cry; while the parsha of V’etchanan which contains within it the passage of כי תוליד בנים ובני בנים, which we read on תשעה באב - speaks of exile, teshuvah, and redemption.
Posted on: July 11th, 2013
Judaism → Halacha & HashkafaMr. Spitz was going through the mail. "Typical assortment," he grunted. "One third bills and financial documents, one third solicitations, and one third junk mail."
Posted on: July 11th, 2013
Judaism → Columns → Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksShakespeare is expressing the medieval stereotype of Christian mercy (Portia) as against Jewish justice (Shylock).
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Posted on: July 11th, 2013
Judaism → Rebbetzin's ViewpointI may be 80 but my memory is as good as it was when I 40.
Posted on: July 10th, 2013
Judaism → Halacha & HashkafaQuestion: Does a contemporary bet din have the authority to annul Tisha B’Av considering that the fast day is rabbinical, not biblical, in origin?
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The Lines Before Sefer Devarim
Posted on: July 10th, 2013
Judaism → ParshaThis week we begin reading Sefer Devarim. The Gemara in Baba Basra 13b says that four blank lines must be scratched onto the parchment between each of the sefarim of a Sefer Torah (i.e. between Sefer Bereishis and Sefer Shemos).
Posted on: July 10th, 2013
Judaism → Halacha & HashkafaThe Shoemaker’s Children ‘If One Can Eat, One Can Sell’ (Pesachim 21a)
Q & A: Kiddush Levanah And Repeating Verses Three Times (Part II)
Posted on: July 10th, 2013
Judaism → Ask the RabbiQuestion: I have numerous questions about Kiddush Levanah. First, why is this prayer called Kiddush Levanah? Shouldn’t it be called Chiddush Levanah considering that the prayer concerns the renewal – not the sanctification – of the moon? Second, why do we greet each other with the words Shalom Aleichem at Kiddush Levanah and why do we repeat the greeting three times? Is it because we have not seen a new moon for a whole month? Third, why does Kiddush Levanah – and other prayers – contain verses (aside from the Shalom Aleichem greeting) that we are supposed to say three times? Please elaborate on this mitzvah. Ira Warshansky (Via E-Mail)
Man: Preprogrammed For Greatness
Posted on: July 10th, 2013
Judaism → Parsha“The ox knows its owner; the donkey the stall of its master; Israel doesn’t know, My nation doesn’t contemplate.” – Yeshayah 1:3 With these words, Yeshayah HaNavi begins the rebuke of his generation, a generation that strayed, that has left the ways of the Torah and turned to other gods and foreign ways.
Posted on: July 10th, 2013
Judaism → Columns → Lessons In EmunahI knew it wasn’t the right attitude to have but Tisha B’Av 30 years ago was one of the happiest days of my life.
Posted on: July 5th, 2013
Judaism → ParshaLouis XVI hoped that July 21, 1791 would be a turning point in the French Revolution. It was, but not quite the way he had hoped it would be. Louis had planned to cross into Austria, raise an army and invade his home country of France to crush the revolution. In fact, Louis and his family nearly made it to the border. They were a mere thirty miles away from putting his grand scheme into action. But a stable master recognized him when the carriage stopped to rest. The National Guardsmen were alerted and intercepted his carriage forcing him and his family to return to Paris embarrassed and humiliated. The French Revolution was about to take a dangerous and radical turn.
Posted on: July 5th, 2013
Judaism → TorahThe three weeks period between the 17 of Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, besides being a time to remember and mourn the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash in Yerushalayim, is a very special time to focus on love. The spiritual root cause of the churban and all the other tragedies of Jewish history that resulted from it was sinas chinam, disliking and hating each other for no good reason. So it only makes sense that the way to remedy this is to go out of our way, especially during these three weeks, to try to like and love each other -- even for no good reason.
Posted on: July 5th, 2013
Judaism → ParshaOn this coming Shabbos Parshas Matos-Masai we bentch Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av. Rosh Chodesh (on Yom Sheini - Monday, July 8) marks the start of the mournful “nine days” during which we restrict many activities normally taken for granted, such as eating meat and drinking wine (Shabbos is an exception), the purchasing and wearing of new clothes, doing laundry (the washing of children’s clothing may be permitted; consult your halachic authority), listening to music, swimming and participating in joyful pursuits.
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