Want To Be Happy?
Happiness comes when we leave the "I" and enter the "We." There is giving and no taking.
Redeeming Relevance: Parshat Re’eh: How to See God in the World
Whether in its variation or in its norms, the world around us provides countless ways to see God. But that will only happen to someone who is looking for them. In other words if we really want to see God, we must also seek God.
Advice From Moshe
It's always possible to ask forgiveness and to forgive, and to begin anew.
The Most Important Thing to Never Bring Into Your Home
In 2001, Indra Nooyi was named president of PepsiCo. Five years later, she would be promoted to CEO and, in 2007, she would become...
As The Night Gets Longer…
Rashi explains: “From the 15th of Av onward, whoever adds nights to the days by studying Torah adds life to his lifetime.”
Berachos: The Key To Fearing Hashem
If a person lacks yiras Hashem, his heart is subject to the wiles of the yetzer hara.
TORAH SHORTS: Parshat Ekev: The Point of the Land of Israel
Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey. -William Arthur Ward
Parshat Ekev: Including God in Who Built That
Parshat Ekev draws our attention to the complex balance between Divine Providence and human effort.
The Great Consolation
The Lubavitcher Rebbe points out that this powerful exchange between the Jewish people and Hashem emphasizes our extraordinary special relationship with Hashem.
Even More Harm Than We Think
A Jew has the power to bring merit to all of mankind.
We Don’t Even Realize What We’re Missing
We are like poor people who do not know they are poor and how rich they could be.
Between Hope & Despair
The Tisha b'Av experience is a spiritual affliction, "Acedia," a "sadness, a disgust with life, which comes from our inability to get along with ourselves, our disunion with God."
Redeeming Relevance: When Moshe Threw a Book Across the Classroom
Most of Devarim is Moshe’s series of parting lectures to the Jewish people. Two things about them are clearly felt – the first is that they are long, often abstract and sometimes even appear repetitive; and the second is that Moshe accordingly uses diverse tactics to keep the Jews listening.
What If…?
On Shiva Assar B’Tammuz, the sin of the golden calf occurred. If we had not sinned on that day, Moshe would have come down from Mount Sinai without breaking the tablets and would have given them to us with great celebration.
Know Your Father
Even though he knew it was possible he would forfeit his inheritance, he refused to dishonor the grave.
Glimpsing The Beis HaMikdash
Most of us aren’t on this level and don’t actually see it, so what’s the point of telling us we’re being shown this vision?
TORAH SHORTS: Parshat Devarim: Biblical Demigod
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. -Jean Genet
Parshat Devarim: Avoid Shifting Baseline Syndrome
What baselines have we accepted? What properly unacceptable behavior has become common, ordinary, the baseline we didn’t stop to notice?
Happy Or Miserable? It’s Your Choice
You write the story of your journey through life. You choose whether to give pleasant or unpleasant names to the stations along the way.
A Path To Moshiach
Since the Torah – which is the epitome of truth – states that studying about the Beis HaMikdash is like building the Beis HaMikdash, it must be so, even on a physical level.
The One & Only Way to Be Spared from Harm
In a lecture delivered by Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto shlit”a regarding contemporary times, he describes the singular proven method to merit salvation in these days...
Words Are Extraordinarily Powerful
The Ari writes that in the future, the 22 letters of the aleph beis will descend and, through them, everyone will be resurrected.
Redeeming Relevance: One Law Fits All?
The notion that all men are created equal is a modern myth. The truth is that all men are created differently
What Should We Do?
What do we do in the face of this corona that has not disappeared as we expected?
A Leader Must Care
Yehoshua humbled himself with purity of heart for the sake of Heaven, and engaged in the menial tasks of setting up chairs and preparing the beis medrash.
Shiva Asar B’Tammuz – A Yom Tov?
Now is an excellent opportunity for whoever has not yet participated in this rewarding study to start, thereby uniting with hundreds of thousands of other Jews around the world.
Parshat Pinhas: Trusting One Fanatic
Sometimes, life requires immediate action that cannot be fully predicted or prescribed.
It Took Seven Years…
A birthday marks the day one’s soul descended to earth to fulfill its unique Divine mission. It therefore is an opportunity to take stock of how well one is accomplishing one’s mission.
Before It’s Too Late
Each day of a person’s life in this world is a gift, borrowed time, to learn more Torah and do more mitzvos.
Balak: The Blessing of Isolation for Israel
So I ask you, who’s stronger HaShem, or Trump, Johnson, the EU and UN?