Achdus
I take pride in being a disciple of the Rebbe. I love everything about Chabad Lubavitch and the wellsprings of chassidus.
Parshat Eikev – Rosh Chodesh Elul
We need to have the endurance Napoleon demanded from his troops.
Daf Yomi
The Most Favorable Of …Times
‘Annulling Vows For The Sake Of Shabbos’
(Nedarim 77a)
Time To Reach Out To Our Father (Part Two)
People believe what they want to believe; We see this same phenomenon with the Iran nuclear deal.
Three-Month Loan
"So there's no way to lend past the shemittah year?" asked Eli.
An Amen Party In South Africa
It is very exciting because the women are answering amen because it is a mitzvah, because it is agreeing with the statement that Hashem creates all our food for us...
Q & A: Tzedakah (Part III)
Question: When a stranger approaches a congregant in shul asking for tzedakah, should the congregant verify that the person’s need is genuine? Furthermore, what constitutes tzedakah? Is a donation to a synagogue, yeshiva, or hospital considered tzedakah?
Zvi Kirschner
(Via E-Mail)
Moshe’s Three Prayers
At the end of his exhausting second 40 day effort, again without food or water, Moshe was rewarded with a command to hew new tablets, as Hashem accepted his petition and forgave them.
Who Gave You The Idea?
The farmer understands he didn’t bring the rain. It wasn’t his acumen that stopped the pestilence.
Giving Up Your Money
The second parshah of Shema is referring to keeping the rest of the mitzvos, and there the Torah does not require that one spend all of his money in order to perform the mitzvos.
Aleph Beta: Eikev: Why Does The Nation of Israel Merit The Land?
Is it because of merit or the promise to our ancestors that B'nai Israel gets to enter Israel?
Redeeming Relevance: Parshat Ekev
In the Shema, Jews sense personal address but know deepest expression of loyalty to God is communal
A Time To Rejoice
By internalizing the Exodus, it is as if we ourselves were redeemed from Egypt.
Shabbos: A Day With Hashem A Smile From Heaven
Each Shabbos we add the tefilla of “Ritzei” to Birchas HaMazon. In it we ask Hashem that on this day of Shabbos He should...
The Poet And Mystic Vs. The Philosopher
Amongst the greatest disagreements in Judaism is the understanding of the 1st of the 10 Commandments
My Father, My Teacher
We studied his seforim together, we listened to famous cantorial masters and we spoke of his illustrious yichus, his pedigree, dating back to the famous commentator, Rashi.
Daf Yomi
The Day He Heard
‘One May Seek Revocation Of A Confimation’
(Nedarim 69a)
Replacement Check
The director picked up the phone to Rabbi Dayan. "One of our counselors lost his check," he said. "Do we have to issue a new one or is it his loss?"
Why Did Moshe Daven
Why would Moshe Rabbeinu have thought that the vow that disallowed him to enter Eretz Yisrael was annulled simply because he was allowed to conquer and enter the land of Sichon and Og?
Q & A: Tzedakah (Part II)
Question: When a stranger approaches a congregant in shul asking for tzedakah, should the congregant verify that the person’s need is genuine? Furthermore, what constitutes tzedakah? Is a donation to a synagogue, yeshiva, or hospital considered tzedakah?
Zvi Kirschner
(Via E-Mail)
Lost And Found
Snow in Jerusalem! For many New Englanders like me, snow pulls at our nostalgic heartstrings like nothing else can.
Man: Preprogrammed For Greatness (Shabbos Nachamu)
Man has conflicting wishes and desires. Man has forces pulling him in competing directions.
Consolation And Redemption
Perhaps the admonition here is that we should not trivialize the events of the past by saying that they are irrelevant to the modern Jew.
The Good Land
One must view the settlement of Israel in a positive light. Thinking otherwise is a grievous sin.
Aleph Beta: Va’etchanan: What Did Moses Do Wrong? Part II
Reaching a stronger understanding of what Moses actually did to prevent him from entering the land
Time To Reach Out To Our Father
Anti-Zionism, today's anti-Semitism, has gone viral, tragically supported globally & by many Jews
Redeeming Relevance on the Weekly Torah Portion: Ve’etchanan
The 10 Statements main point was not content but the encounter between G-d & His nation, Israel