Judaism

If you have been settled in Eretz Yisrael already for four or more generations and your farm is producing steadily, blessed by Divine abundance, you begin to take it for granted.

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Rebbi Akiva compared a Jew’s need for Torah learning to a fish’s dependency on water.

Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach

The issue at hand isn’t that the Jews didn’t serve G-d. They did serve G-d, but the joy was lacking.

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

A Posted Picture Saves The Day “In Order To Avoid Igun…” (Yevamos 88a)

It is unclear exactly where everything goes on the shulchan. When the two stacks of breads and two bowls of levonah are arranged on it, there is no place for anything else, let alone baking pans, bowls, pipes, etc.

Our children are facing a world we could never have imagined. They have learned words like pandemic and PCR tests, seen grisly photos of war and urban shootings, and heard of ugly anti-Semitic attacks that never seemed possible.

When I think back, there were other amazing occurrences that happened that day!

Once they asked a wise man to talk about his greatest dream. He answered that he had many dreams and professional aspirations, but above...

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. -Andrew Jackson

Many authorities rule that the custom to wait until nightfall on Shavuot only applies to the recitation of Kiddush.6 It would be permissible, however, to recite Maariv before this time.

The forty-nine days of sefiras ha’omer parallel the forty-nine-day process that the Jewish People went through upon leaving Egypt, before receiving the Torah. What is the meaning behind this process?

Holy Tears!

Wishing all a wonderful Holiday-

Abarbanel says that the Children of Israel are not compared to grains of sand simply because they are so many. Lots of things occur in great numbers but Israel isn’t compared to them.

Because the law came before the land, even when Jews lost the land they still had the law. This meant that even in exile, Jews were still a nation.

Our Sages expound that granting merit to the many (zikui harabbim) is inherently infinitely beneficial.

When we think this Shavuos about the revelation at Sinai, let’s remember that the Torah was given surprisingly in the midst of billowing smoke and blackness.

Mr. Furst was stunned for a moment. It's not quite the same, he replied. You have no connection to the land. Even though the fruit is hefker, the land is still mine!

Rebbe Nachman understood the tricks of the yetzer hara. He understood that little voice in my head that told me, Today just isn't your day. Maybe tomorrow.

Flowers symbolize the need for constant effort to maintain and build even the best relationships.

The word gvinah only appears once in the Bible: Is it not like milk that You have poured me, and like cheese [gvinah] that You have solidified me? (Job 10:10).

What is not so internalized is the realization that our success in life daily depends on our performance while davening.

That HaShem forgoes His Honor for the sake of making peace between man and wife comes to teach us the importance of humbling our own egos for the sake of making our relationships work.

The Torah we received on Mount Sinai is in every single place we allow it to enter, it is the same Torah from thousands of years ago.

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Once I found the correct hole, the pipe was easily snapped into place and I felt like a conquering hero (with Hashem’s help, of course). Throughout the whole procedure, I asked for His help and he led me to a positive outcome.

Reward And Punishment “Ma’aser Rishon for the Leviim” (Yevamos 86a)