Judaism

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)

I’m sorry, replied the repairman. I checked the mixer on Friday, but forgot about it this week. Tomorrow I can't work on it, but can have the mixer ready by Friday afternoon.

Question: Where I live I see Chabad Shluchim offering Jewish passersby 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

The ten tests Avraham passed expressed and taught his contemporaries about commitment to Hashem and thus earned him his reward.

The giving of the Torah was a far-reaching spiritual event – one that touched the essence of the Jewish soul for all times. Our Sages have compared it to a wedding between G-d and the Jewish people.

Rebbe Nachman tells us that the main source of exile is in the mind: When we become so confused and doubt-filled that we lack clarity and forget about G-d (II:21).

Before the Jewish people received the Torah they only had the seven mitzvot bnei No’ach to observe. Upon receiving the Torah, however, another 606 mitzvot were added.

Even within large groups, or even within an entire nation, each individual has a special place and a unique mission. Each person is important.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. -Blaise Pascal

We don’t mark how many days remain until Shavuos; we count how many days have elapsed since Pesach. What is the meaning behind this strange method of counting?

Only one other nation in history has consistently seen its fate in similar terms, namely the United States. The influence of the Hebrew Bible on American history – carried by the Pilgrim Fathers and reiterated in presidential rhetoric ever since – was decisive.

Every mitzvah you perform heals some spiritual malaise that you might not even know you were suffering from.

It is every individual’s obligation to toil in Torah so that he can soar even higher than the angels.

We should train ourselves to look forward to doing our mitzvos. The premier example of this attitude is the mitzvah of sefira. That on a national level we demonstrate in unison an excited countdown towards Torah.

One of the criticisms of our society’s child-rearing is that we aren’t sufficiently training children to think for themselves. Children quickly learn how to spit back the information we want them to say, record it on tests, and tell us what we want to hear them say.

I can think of fewer things that are guaranteed to make a person unhappy. ... No one is showing their ups and downs on social media.

Another word related to both sheviit and sheva is shavua, but this word bears two distinct meanings in both Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew.

The rules of the sabbatical year, shmita, require farmers to desist from working and open up their fields, with all their produce, to anyone.

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Only Rabbi Shimon in his special way has the ability to make peace and tranquility amongst all types of people, and create such a beautiful environment.

A people's army is necessary for Israel to fulfill the Divine commandment of sovereignty over our land.

Yes, everything was quiet now, but who knew what the next day would bring. But with Rav Frank's promise, and knowing how well their son was doing in yeshiva and how much he wanted to stay and continue learning there, they agreed to let him stay.

Fetal Immersion? ‘The Fetus Is A Limb Of It’s Mother’ (Yevamos 78a)

A person who steals is required to return the item itself when it is still intact, replied Rabbi Dayan. He cannot suffice with returning its value without the owner's consent.

Question: What if one counted the Omer but forgot to utter the blessing – has the obligation been fulfilled? Why do we recite a blessing for this counting, when we find that for the zayin nekiyim, the seven clean days, there is no such blessing? Is the counting not similar? M. Goldman Miami Beach, FL

Our souls ultimately seek things more meaningful than what this world has to offer, and we should make sure not to get lured astray by the non-spiritual aspects of our world.