Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Change and Renewal: The Essence of the Jewish Holidays, Festivals & Days of Remembrance
Posted on: May 8th, 2012
Sections → BooksBreathe deeply. You’ll need maximum physical and spiritual power to absorb the uplifting lessons in this book. Page 249 explains why some Jews are praised as “fish on dry land,” a phrase that describes Moshe Rabeinu. Am Yisrael began to appreciate his depth of character at kriat Yam Suf, realizing that “he lived in the revealed world as though he were in the concealed world.”
The Kosher Grapevine: Exploring the World of Wine
Posted on: April 19th, 2012
Sections → BooksAuthor Irving Langer provides his own look at wine-making as well as the nature of the storage barrels used to age wines for taste perfection. He intersperses the book with Jewish historical facts and figures, a few jokes and photographs, and advice on how to pair wines with specific foods.
Beyond Politics: Inspirational People of Israel
Posted on: April 18th, 2012
Sections → BooksUnlike formulaic biographies from popular publishing houses in the Orthodox Jewish world, Beyond Politics is not predictable. The vignettes of individual men and women who trekked through Ethiopia and Sudan, flew in from Austria, India, and Algeria, or were born on Israeli soil are gritty, adventurous, and heartwarming.
Two New Books on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Posted on: April 15th, 2012
Sections → BooksThe OU Press has brought out two very significant books on the thought of the Rav, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
Title: Beyond Politics: Inspirational People of Israel
Posted on: April 15th, 2012
Sections → BooksBeyond Politics: Inspirational People of Israel is a compact introduction to decency. Its eighteen personal profiles illustrate how Israelis from all walks of society improve the Holy Land’s quality of life, and then some.
Posted on: April 6th, 2012
Sections → BooksThe book Here Comes Shabbos! is about a family baking, cooking, polishing silver, shining shoes, shopping and cleaning for Shabbos. The activities begin on Friday morning and only conclude shortly before lighting the Shabbos candles. During that time span, it covers everything you need to do in order to get ready for Shabbos.
Title: For the Love of Torah – Stories and Insights of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel
Posted on: April 6th, 2012
Sections → BooksThis book is very riveting. It is a comprehensive biography of the Mirrer Rosh Yeshivah, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, zt’l. It starts out telling us about the Mirrer Yeshiva escaping to Shanghai from Lithuania during World War II because of the invading Germans. It then describes Rabbi Finkel’s family, and then Rabbi Finkel himself. It is important for young adults to see our gedolim as role models, and Rabbi Teller’s biography provides just that. Also, Rabbi Finkel is a relatable role model, because he grew up as a typical American Jewish kid.
Bird’s Head Haggadah Revealed – The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative & Religious Imagination
Posted on: March 29th, 2012
Sections → ArtsBird’s Head Haggadah Revealed The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative & Religious Imagination By Marc Michael Epstein, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2011
Title: When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Posted on: March 29th, 2012
Sections → BooksTitle: When General Grant Expelled the Jews Author: Jonathan Sarna Publisher: Schocken
Posted on: March 29th, 2012
Sections → BooksTitle: The Koren Ethiopian Haggada Journey to Freedom: Celebrating Ethiopian Jewish History, Traditions & Customs Editor: Rabbi Menachem Waldman Publisher: Koren Publishing
Reviewing The Koren Ethiopian Haggada Journey to Freedom
Posted on: March 20th, 2012
Sections → BooksThe Hebrew-English haggada provides a wealth of photographic evidence of the lives led by Ethiopian Jews. The pottery, the unembellished homes, school, and synagogues, the gaunt Jews in modest clothing and head coverings portray dedication to Torah values despite harsh political and topographical conditions.
Book Review on The Megillah: Majesty and Mystery
Posted on: February 29th, 2012
Sections → BooksRabbi Norman Lamm wrote and preserved the hundreds of eloquent and inspiring sermons he had delivered as a pulpit rabbi in Manhattan for 25 years prior to becoming president of Yeshiva University,
Reviewing Torah Tapestries: Shemos
Posted on: February 15th, 2012
Sections → BooksAnyone interested in meticulously researched writings important to the future of Am Yisrael should add 190-page hardcover Torah Tapestries: Shemos to public and private libraries.
Posted on: February 15th, 2012
Sections → BooksAn autobiography written with fond memories, Girl for Sale is for readers who appreciate haredi worldviews as well as peeks into history.
Posted on: February 2nd, 2012
Sections → BooksAshira Greenberg is a pretty, talented and articulate young lady who, at the tender of age of seventeen, has just published a book.
Title: The Azrielli Papers: Dimensions of Orthodox Day School Education
Posted on: January 12th, 2012
Sections → BooksWhen Yaakov Avinu knew that he was about to move his family down to Mitzraim, his first priority was to establish a yeshiva. Ever since then, educating our young has continued to be a lifelong challenge and commitment for every Jew.
Posted on: January 11th, 2012
Sections → BooksReaders of Clayton’s short stories know that he is not only a master craftsman, but that his stories are inquires into the purpose of life; he is a moral philosopher.
Title: The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond
Posted on: November 17th, 2011
Sections → BooksThere are three kinds of travelers: there are tourists, there are businesspeople, and then there are historians like Ben G. Frank. The last kind doesn’t simply go from here to there. They try to relive history and find the real meaning behind what they experience.
Posted on: October 5th, 2011
Sections → BooksGod's Favorite Prayers, by Tzvee Zahavy, makes for fascinating reading. It is an intelligent, sometimes amusing, and always highly readable essay addressed first and foremost to those who know "everything" - those so familiar with the prayers that they don't really need a siddur to follow the service.
Posted on: September 21st, 2011
Sections → BooksIn recent years, the attitude dubbed "orthopraxy", the notion that holds that fulfillments of halakha is sufficient on its own terms without serving, or being subordinate to, any higher purpose , has become fashionable in some circles. Most famously advocated by the late distinguished Israeli scientist Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Orthopraxy - which has become accepted practically if not avowedly by many Orthodox Jews, both in the US and Israel - has found a number of other proponents as well, a disproportionate number of whom are among the intellectual elite.
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