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A Reason to Transcend (Part II)

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

If someone were to ask you to prove that you exist, you would seriously struggle to do so. One’s own existence simply cannot be rationally proven.

Manhattan Madness

In Print Zelda Goldfield

Tehilla understood that nights of interrupted sleep and scampering into the safe room was a small price to pay compared to the price others paid in the terrible loss of life and limbs.

There are several leniencies in applying this restriction when the names do not totally match up. For example, if the names do not match exactly – such as a father-in-law named Yaakov Yosef and a son-in-law named Yosef – some poskim permit the marriage.

This Too Is For The Good? Yes!

In Print Naomi Brudner

He drove and drove, enjoying every minute when suddenly the car in front of him put on the brakes! David tried to stop in time but couldn't and he went smashing into the car in front of him.

A Reason to Transcend (Part I)

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

Very often, people believe that true depth and wisdom lies only in far-off places – in Eastern spirituality or Western philosophy. However, the deepest wisdom lies within Jewish thought, in the depths of the Torah’s inner wisdom. One must only seek, and they will find.

Finding New Inspirations from My Mother’s Legacy – Gertrude Magill, a”h

In Print Alan Magill

Three diseases could not stop my mother. They never had a chance. She LIVED and was a giver until the last moment she passed from this world to a better world.

A Spiritual Pitfall (Part II)

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

As we previously explained, the purpose of techeiles and tzitzis is to straighten the bent path and help connect us back to Hashem, our Source.

The Cure Before the Illness

In Print Risa Rotman

Sunday morning as I was packing up for my retreat, I threw in the Arnica even though I felt like my hand was already feeling and looking much better. It can’t hurt, I thought as I tossed in a few more maybe items.

A Time of Comfort: Healing After Destruction

Columns Rabbi Mordechai Weiss

To destroy is easy. To build is sacred, slow, and infinitely more precious.

A Spiritual Pitfall (Part I)

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

Most people, at some point in their lives, have felt invincible, unstoppable, almost G-dly. And yet, at other times, these very same people have felt weak, incapable, deflated, and worthless.

Sight, But No Vision: The Sin of the Spies (Part II)

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

The meraglim not only misunderstood their experience, but they then reported this distortion back to Klal Yisrael.

Sight, but No Vision: The Sin of the Spies

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

There are two levels of reality: The first is how things appear on the physical surface; the second is the meaning that lies behind that exterior.

From Last to First: The Story of the Nesiim (Part II)

Rabbi Shmuel Reichman Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

We don’t wait for spirituality to come to us; we proactively seek it out. We don’t let time wash over us; we actively ride the waves of time.

Where Religion And Nationhood Coincide

In Print Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l

According to he Netziv, If Jews live distinctive and apart from others they will dwell safely, but if they seek to emulate ‘the nations’ they ‘will not be reckoned’ as anything special at all.

From Last to First: The Story of the Nesi’im

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

The most obvious form of chesed is giving money, but this is far from ideal. Short-term monetary gifts do not usually solve a long-term struggle with poverty; the person will therefore remain dependent and poor.

The Five Stages of Torah

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

Only when there is silence, and the complete absence of ego, can the truth be heard, understood, and accepted. The Torah is the absolute and whole truth and can therefore only be given when there is absolutely nothing else competing against it.

The Five Spiritual Stages of the Creative Process

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

If the Torah does, in fact, require organization, why specifically divide it into five parts?

Jewish Leadership: When Leaders Are Human

In Print Rabbi Shmuel Reichman

The Beis HaMikdash is the point where the spiritual heavens kiss the physical earth…this is where the infinite and spiritual meet the finite and physical.

Is a Leader a Nursing Father?

In Print Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l

The trouble is that if the leader is a parent, then the followers remain children. They are totally dependent on him. They do not develop skills of their own. They do not acquire a sense of responsibility or the self-confidence that comes from exercising it.