The Hidden Light
What the Torah is telling us is that there are two roads that lead to sin and one can never be sure which path one took.
Our Society Among Societies
Such a filtering process is necessary but, as you may have noted, it is purely negative. It filters out but it does not tell us what to bring in. What should we, in fact, hold dear? How shall we make use of our time? Who will we choose to be with?
Target Practice
In reality, man’s purpose in this world is to do the will of Hashem by learning Torah and performing mitzvos, and the Talmud (Sanhedrin 90a) states that All of the Jewish people have a share in the world-to-come.
Revitalizing Our Prayers (Part Seven)
Yaras Daas writes that one should also have in mind for the Torah success of their children, their descendants and their disciples.
Parshat Kedoshim – Understanding the Segula
The Segula is Israel's inner Divine light planted within the collective Hebrew soul and revealed in human history through the Jewish people.
Parshat Acharei Mot – A Glimpse at the Back End
Every mitzvah is like a faucet that, when opened, releases Divine blessing into our world and elevates it to a level beyond where it previously existed.
The Pursuit Of Perfection
Because when you reduce humanity to its essence, there is only the naked will and the Torah which complements it, so that man becomes a spiritual being, an enlightened consciousness.
Knowledge is Power: 6 ESSENTIAL Facts about the Holocaust
We face Holocaust denial, ignorance, and forgetfulness, as well as claims that the Holocaust was not a unique or particularly anti-Jewish event. It is therefore more important than ever not only to remember what happened, but to make a commitment never to forget.
Parshat Metzora – Mitzvot that Challenge Values
While it is unfortunate that even observant Diaspora Jews can be corrupted by the moral values of their host countries, the greater tragedy is that they are not living up to their full potential in life.
Parshat Tazria – Striving for Positive Achievement
Teaching a bigger Torah would not only succeed in bringing back more disconnected Jews but also in advancing the Hebrew mission of illuminating the world with the light of HaShem’s Truth.
Watch Your Mouth
If you want to understand the origin of something, search for the first time it is mentioned in the Torah.
Revitalizing Our Prayers (Part Six)
Hashem’s manifestations of holiness serve as a model for how we can be holy.
TORAH SHORTS: Parshat Tazria-Metzora: Idolatrous Self-Gratification
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. -William Hazlitt
It Happened On Tuesday
Our commentaries say that if a person has animosity in their heart towards another, it would actually be better to be open and tell them about it rather than to harbor ill feelings and transgress this prohibition.
Honoring The Memory & Legacy of Yehoshua Bin-Nun
Yehoshua was one of Israel's greatest leaders because he represented the ideal expression of the Yosef force - one consciously rooted in, guided by and completely subordinate to the Hebrew mission.
Vayidom Aharon – Parshat Shemini
We are all shaken by the spilling of our brothers and sisters; innocent, holy blood.
Changing Fate
Don't the korbanot themselves bring peace on their own? So why was it necessary for Aharon to bless the people with peace?
No Complaints
When an individual experiences yesurim – be they physical, monetary, or other forms of suffering – he should know that it is for his good. R’ Chaim Vital said: It is beneficial for one to be embarrassed for it is a rectification for his sins, and in that moment, it is as though he has died.
Parshat Shemini – Clarifying Kedusah
Israel is to participate in - and elevate - every sphere of national life in order to reveal the inner connection of all that exists to the Divine Ideal.
The Seventh of Pesach
Israel was granted insight into HaShem's Divine plan for revealing Himself in Creation and bringing the world to its predestined state of perfection.
Why The Yam Suf Split
On Pesach we convey to our children the great lesson of hakol kol Yaakov, the voice is the voice of Yaakov.
Opportunity Knocks at the Seder (Part Two)
It is my custom to pour the second cup of wine before the mah nishtanah. Most people do this. It begs the question though. Since the second cup is for maggid, and maggid starts by ha lachma anya, why don’t we pour it before this paragraph (which is indeed the minhag of the Shiboleh Leket and the Orchos Chaim).
Redemption As A Natural Process
Rav Kook teaches that in the natural world as it appears to us, the light of kedusha is hidden deep inside reality. It is often hard work to find it and extract it, and the day-to-day matters of existence as well as the events of history seem to bury it further.
To Really Understand A Question
Before the Exodus from Egypt, when everything seemed stuck, when no solution had yet appeared on the horizon, the redemption began when the nation of Israel simply lifted its eyes towards heaven and cried out to G-d.
Listen Closely
None of the four sons depicted in the haggadah could be taught in an identical manner; the results would be catastrophic.
Pesach – Freeing Humanity From Egyptian Bondage
Even had Egypt’s dominance on the world stage declined later in history due to natural circumstances, the Pharaonic worldview would have continued to dominate the thinking of man.
Is There Anything Wrong with Chametz the Rest of the Year?
we need to first discuss the logical problem posed by chametz.
Free To Serve Hashem
Hashem took us out of slavery because a slave can never truly give himself over to a higher cause as he is not the owner of the self to give.
Parshat Tzav – Freeing Humanity from Edom
Israel has dramatically returned to the world stage in what has so far been merely the introduction to a revolutionary process destined to free humankind from a global order that promotes injustice.
Opportunity Knocks At The Seder (Part I)
It was on the night of the Seder that Avraham was rescued from the four mighty kings. It was on this night that the Jewish people were saved from Sancherev and his 400 battalions. It was also on this night that Achashveirosh had difficulty in sleeping and the seeds of Haman’s downfall were sown.
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