Judaism

The trees that were not watered with sprinklers had to develop deeper roots into the ground to ensure that they would receive the nutrients and water they needed.

Our lives are gifts from Hashem; as much as we aspire to eternal life in Olam Haba, that can only be attained by properly exploiting our opportunities for spiritual growth in this world.

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Shalom could barely believe the siyata dishmaya. He told her to return the following day and he would try and get some money to help her.

In the morning, Asher approached Yehuda. I saw that your bike was unlocked, and thought I'd take a spin, he said. Unfortunately, I rode over a nail on the road, and the inner tube got punctured.

For some, the “need to know” stems from a sense of “information is power.” Information is social currency and the more we know, the richer and more powerful we are

A Joy And A Blessing “Rejoicing All Seven Days…” (Kesubos 4b)

You have to [let the land lie fallow] with full emunah. I understand when people say it’s difficult.

In order to generate peace, the Sages (Mishnah Brachot 9:5) instituted using the word shalom as a friendly greeting to one another despite it being Hashem’s holy name.

Question: Where I live, I see Chabad shluchim offering Jewish passerby to put on tefillin. Is this of any value if they are otherwise non-observant? Additionally, is doing so in a street – a public thoroughfare – proper kavod for the tefillin? Menachem Via email

Bring light and holiness into your vacation time, by remembering always that it is the time of preparation in order to improve the quality and quantity of your studies during study-time to follow.

While Moav & Midian championed a separation of 'religion' & state, Israel’s mission demands that spiritual ideals be materialized on a national level so that our Torah’s values be fully expressed on earth.

What is dangerous about anger is that it causes us to lose control.

The Rebbe often took a small boat and by himself rowed along the river... He would still take it beyond the rushes where he could not be seen. It was here that he secluded himself in prayer before G-d. The Rebbe himself writes that it was here that he attained what he did.

Just as an advocate is created for each mitzvah, so too a prosecuting angel is created with the performance of every aveirah.

It would seem that the problem was not in the stream but in the people. The Children of Israel disparaged the Land of Israel through the negative report of the spies and they had still not rectified this sin.

I told her that I was impressed that she had the humility to listen and make a change.

When we bentch, one of the people we should have in mind to bless and to thank, besides Hashem of course, is our wife. She is the one who prepares our repast, cleans up after us, and creates the aura that makes the meal pleasant.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. -Victor Kiam

In more recent times, the late Satmar Rebbe is quoted as having said, If women knew the reward that awaits those who bake challot for Shabbat, bakeries wouldn’t sell a single challah.

Unfortunately, Yiftach would become a key participant in perhaps the bloodiest and most infamous civil war in Israel: that between Menashe and Ephraim.

What is the Jewish perspective on the goal of life? Do we limit ourselves to our own individual happiness, or should we be striving for something even deeper and greater?

Rabbi Pappenheim postulates that there are two different types of moistness: one refers to something wet on the outside but not necessarily on the inside, while the other refers to something saturated with liquid on the inside but dry on the outside.

I was thrilled when we leased a new car a few years ago and found that it had what I dubbed shalom bayis controls. Both driver and passenger have their own setting for heat and air conditioning.

It’s true that people have fallen into addiction from small exposures to gambling but it seems that this is not a concern for most of us.

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When we get older we are wiser from life's experiences. However not always do our bodies function as they did when we were 18, 19 and 20.

Why did Hashem tell Moshe to take the staff if He wanted Moshe to speak to the rock? Why open a possibility for Moshe to sin?

Like her husband, my daughter-in-law is extremely handy (although they are both Jewish!), and she has an incredible knack for home organizing as well as choosing inexpensive accents that pack a punch.

An Explosion In The Trench “With A Glowing Hot Knife” (Yevamos 120b)