Celebrate Eight Days of Chanukah – With 8,000 Free Meals Daily to Israel’s Poor Join Meir Panim’s campaign to “light up” Chanukah for families in need.
Posted on: November 12th, 2011
Judaism → ParshaAt the beginning of this week’s parshah the Torah writes extensively about Avraham Avinu’s act of hachnasas orchim for the three men who were passing by his tent.
Posted on: November 12th, 2011
Judaism → ParshaAvraham Avinu was commanded with a supreme test, and one of the greatest challenges ever presented to man: “Take your son, your only son, the son that you love…”
Posted on: November 12th, 2011
Judaism → ParshaHashem offers a gift of the greatest proportions: teshuvah. To paraphrase Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt”l, with teshuvah, no sin is too large -- and without it, no sin is too small.
Posted on: November 2nd, 2011
Judaism → ParshaIn this week’s parshah, Hashem commands Avraham Avinu to perform the mitzvah of bris milah. We once discussed a question that several Achronim ask regarding this mitzvah, and I want to share some new thoughts on the matter.
Posted on: November 2nd, 2011
Judaism → ParshaWhen Avraham Avinu was informed that his nephew Lot was captured, he waged war against the combined armies of the four kings. Miraculously, he was victorious and freed Lot.
Posted on: October 26th, 2011
Judaism → ParshaHashem appeared to Noach and told him the world had turned to wicked ways and was to be destroyed by a deluge. Hashem commanded Noach to build a teivah, an ark, so that he and his family would be saved.
Posted on: October 26th, 2011
In Print → From the PaperThe world before the Flood was starkly different from the world today (as even science will attest), and the destruction of the world under a layer of boiling water was an event without parallel in nature or history.
Posted on: October 26th, 2011
In Print → From the PaperIn this week’s parshah Hashem tells Noach to build a teivah, for as the pasuk says, “assei lecha teivas… – you shall make for yourself a teivah” (Bereishis 6:14).
Posted on: October 26th, 2011
Judaism → ParshaBetween the Flood and the call to Abraham, between the universal covenant with Noah and the particular covenant with one people comes the strange, suggestive story of Babel:
Posted on: March 14th, 2007
Judaism → Parsha"V'Hanesi'im haviu es Avnei HaShoham v'es Avnei HaMiluim (Shemos 35:27) - And the princes [of the Jews] brought the shoham stones and the miluim stones."
Posted on: January 17th, 2007
Judaism → Parsha"Iceberg, right ahead." With those words, the Titanic's lookout Frederick Fleet warned the crew on the ship's bridge of the imminent threat.
Posted on: January 17th, 2007
Judaism → Parsha"Iceberg, right ahead." With those words, the Titanic's lookout Frederick Fleet warned the crew on the ship's bridge of the imminent threat.
Posted on: January 10th, 2007
Judaism → Parsha"Houston, we have a problem." These words that were transmitted on April 11, 1970 by astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, initiated a crisis of potential catastrophic proportions for NASA and the space program.
Posted on: January 10th, 2007
Judaism → Parsha"Houston, we have a problem." These words that were transmitted on April 11, 1970 by astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, initiated a crisis of potential catastrophic proportions for NASA and the space program.
Posted on: January 3rd, 2007
Judaism → ParshaDecember 1862 was a terrible month for Abraham Lincoln. General Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg had just defeated his principal army, the Army of the Potomac. As a result, the Radical Republican senators felt that now was the time to force Lincoln to push the war more vigorously. More importantly, they wanted to replace Secretary of State Seward who was viewed as the power behind Lincoln.
Posted on: January 3rd, 2007
Judaism → ParshaDecember 1862 was a terrible month for Abraham Lincoln.
Posted on: December 27th, 2006
Judaism → ParshaSection 456 (g) 1 of The Military Selective Service Act (as amended through July 9, 2003) states: "Regular or duly ordained ministers of religionshall be exempt from training and service." Based on this clause, clergy, including rabbis, have been exempt from the draft since the Civil War.
Posted on: December 27th, 2006
Judaism → ParshaSection 456 (g) 1 of The Military Selective Service Act (as amended through July 9, 2003) states:
Posted on: December 20th, 2006
Judaism → Parsha"You never get a second chance to make a first impression" might be a clich?, but people ignore it at their own peril.
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