The Uniqueness Of Sukkot

The Sukkah represents the singular character of Jewish history, the experience of exile and homecoming, the long journey across the wilderness of time.

All Of Israel In One Sukkah

One who fully comprehends higher truth understands that there are many valid approaches to achieving such awareness, and he loves and respects his fellow who shares this vision but who might have a different individual perspective.

True Simcha

Though it is always easy to focus on what we are missing in our lives, we must use Chag HaSukkot to focus upon and celebrate Hashem’s great blessings that we often take for granted.

Q & A: Prayer And Its Origins (Part IV)

Question: The Gemara in Berachot teaches that the Sages authored our prayers. If so, it would seem that we did not pray before this time. Did we pray before their innovation or not? Menachem Via Email

Frayed Wires

If the wire is frayed the connection is faulty and that spiritual power will not ignite within our souls.

The Battle Against Forgetting

Another factor that negatively impacts memory is not properly understanding the material when originally learned. When the information is not encoded properly, later retrieval is unlikely.

Mirrors And Windows: The Secret Of Schach

Amongst the Yamim Noraim, Succos is an anomaly. Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are overtly spiritual and transcendent days, with intense rounds of prayer and spiritual elevation. Succos, on the other hand, is grounded in the physical.

Keeping Yom Tov Sheini in Israel and The Chacham Tzvi

When the Mishna rules that visitors to a new place must continue to observe all the restrictions that are normally observed in their hometown, it only refers to customs that are or can be practiced in the new location by the residents of that place.

Is It Proper To Build A Sukkah In Your Front Yard, Near A Public...

In the United States the issue might be that such action might provoke people to acts of anti-Semitism which has spiraled in the States.

Regrets or No Regrets?

Brene Brown: “No regrets’ doesn’t mean living with courage, it means living without reflection.”

HaMelech Hamishpat

Don't be judges on Mishpat alone.

Too Young For Yizkor

Every action, every hour of learning, chesed, brachos, tefillos were done for their father’s neshama to merit a closeness to the Kisei HaKavod. That was all that was left for them to do for him.

Must Tzedaka Pledges Be Paid Promptly?

To avoid potential violation, when a person commits to give ma’aser kesafim or designates money for tzedaka, poskim recommend that he stipulate to distribute it slowly or that the money not be considered tzedaka until he is ready to give it.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and God

But what if, instead of being threatened by an AI god or religion, we can use it for inspiration in the relationship with the One and only true God, Hashem?

Daf Yomi

Polite And Respectful “It Is Audacious to Appoint One’s Father a Shaliach” (Kiddushin 45b)

Two Forms Of Repentance: Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur has the power to purify because on this day the bond between the essence of the soul and G-d’s essence is revealed.

Parshat Ha’azinu – The Song of History

Human history – like any great piece of literature – presents a story that is not only inspiring and dramatic on the surface but also allegorically rich with hidden meaning and deep moral lessons.

The Spirituality Of Song

As music connects note to note, so faith connects episode to episode, life to life, age to age in a timeless melody that breaks into time.

More Than Just Kapparah

Most of us are familiar with the process and stages of teshuva. But how do we purify ourselves?

There’s Always Hope!

Although it is difficult to imagine, it seems that Dovid HaMelech – the exalted individual, leader of the Jewish nation, fearless warrior of Hashem – was afraid that he had possibly accrued so many sins that he could no longer repent.

Taking Torah On The Road

Whether nature is vanity or just lower on the values hierarchy than Torah study, both of these approaches seem to agree that nature disrupts the learning process, and presumably, if possible, learning should be done inside, with minimal distractions from the natural world.

The Messages And Power Of L’Dovid Hashem Ori (Part II)

Many of us, after making an honest and blunt cheshbon hanefesh, a personal reevaluation of our behavior during the past year, might be filled with despair and despondency at our chances for a good judgment.

Torah Study And General Wisdom

All of this would be true even if it were not so that a general education is required for gaining an appreciation of G-d’s wisdom, philosophy, ethics, and laws.

Q & A: Prayer And Its Origins (Part III)

Question: The Gemara in Berachot teaches that the Sages authored our prayers. If so, it would seem that we did not pray before this time. Did we pray before their innovation or not? Menachem Via Email

Biting The Hand That Feeds You

The heavens have been programmed by G-d to supply rain. Instructing them not to do so is against their nature. It is only harsh and insistent words that will convince the heavens to go against their own nature.

Reading The Paper

There is much good that we do with our cell phones, and they help us in so many ways. But how often do we take them out to look at them during davening in shul, during family meal times, or at any time when we are conversing with another person?

Let My Teachings Rain Down, My Sayings Soak In As The Dew

Rav Kook examines the opening concepts of the parsha: The heavens should listen, the earth will hear, teachings fall like rain and sayings soak in as the dew. He explains that in our world, we find things in a pure state of nature and we also see them altered by the intervention of men.

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