The Moment Of Truth
As humans, we have the capacity to generate delusions of our power and control.
Return To Sender
Righteousness is man’s natural state; sinfulness, in contrast, is considered unnatural. Therefore, a wicked person who repents is viewed as “returning” to his natural state.
Parashat Re’eh: Traveling to Home Base and Eternal Life
While there is no proof of life after death, everything seems to allude to it. Our existence in this world resembles a station at which we arrive when we are born and from which we leave when we die, returning to “home base.”
Friendships
However, being friendly and or having lots of friends doesn’t necessarily mean that these friends are true ones.
Forget About It
Rabbi Hirsch writes that “shachach” implies forgetting as a result of focusing on something else while “nashah” is forgetfulness that results from a weakened memory.
A Tribute To My Own Personal Angels
My mother had a difficult pregnancy. Some doctors said it was a miracle I was born and came out as good as I did.
Parashat Korach: The Curse of Camouflaged Jealousy, And the Blessing of Enjoying the Achievements...
What Korach doesn’t realize is that he’s been manipulated by his friends while convincing himself otherwise. He allowed himself to be used by his friends while thinking that he was using them.
Renewable Energy
What Shabbat gave – and still gives – is the unique opportunity to create space within our lives, and within society as a whole, in which we are truly free.
Celestial Reunion
The exact details of that nocturnal levayah have long since faded from my memory. However, one poignant story shook me to the core of my being – and remains with me still.
Reb Elimelech M’Lizhensk (Part X)
To the misnaged-opponent, chassidus was not perceived as a different strand of normative Judaism, nor as a movement to uplift downtrodden Jews – but as an existential threat to Judaism itself. And the threat was no longer viewed as a futuristic potentiality; it was a real and imminent danger, for the movement was no longer limited to just the commoner but had infiltrated the ranks of scholars.
Behind Schedule, But On Time
Thoughts surged through my head. What to do? No point in getting to the Institute without the essential documents. But to get home, rush in, grab the folder, wait for the bus and train and then arrive late, when they may refuse to see me? I decided to take that chance.
Rabbi Sacks on Religion & Science – The Great Partnership
For too long, people have thought that religion and science are destined to be in conflict.
The Life Of Shluchim
They live all alone, far from any other religious Jews, and distant from the rest of their family and relatives. The kids only see their grandparents on video calls.
Winter
True there is a lot of wealth within the world of technology that enables us to do so much more than in generations past. However, it has also created a very cold and isolated generation.
Praying For Someone Else
Does G-d answer our prayers? Definitely! Sometimes the answer is "Yes" and sometimes it's "No." And whatever God's answer, it's always what's best for us.
‘Al HaNissim’
The entire downtown business district would pour into the streets around 5:30 p.m., clogging the already congested traffic lanes of Chicago's bustling Loop. Blaring horns of Checker taxicabs and city buses made it hard to hear one's own voice, but I always heard my father's voice...
A Nation Of Storytellers
Torah isn't a theological treatise or a metaphysical system but a series of stories linked over time
Rebbetzin Yemima’s Remedy For Unblocked Blessing
To add to her distress, this close friend has a lifetime history of complications in her relationship with her mother, her only living parent. Thus, she struggles without the benefit of family support.
Earthquakes And Volcanoes
It should have proven to them that the churban was upon them and should have caused a tremendous teshuvah movement.
The Level of Angels
The Rishonim are bothered by the obvious question: what is the purpose of going to Har Sinai if we would not have received the Torah?
Afterthoughts on Yom Ha’atzmaut: The Unchallenged Holiness of the Jew
If the Jewish inhabitants of Israel do not behave properly or hide behind the claim they are observant or moral while in fact they disobey the ethical dictates of God, the Book of Amos makes it clear that the State of Israel will not endure.
Teshuva, Tefillah And Tzedakah
Although I sincerely asked for mechila on every subsequent visit, she refused to accept my money or my apology. Instead she unequivocally announced, I don’t want to talk to you! and proceeded to ignore me.
Rachel And Shlomo
Rabbi Shlomo is well known for his love of every single Jew and his ability to reach so many souls with his special music and his magnetic personality.
Jewish Connections
Yom Yerushalayim, a national day of thanksgiving to Hashem for the liberation and reunification of the Holy City of Yerushalayim, is celebrated in Israel with many different meaningful programs. One of them is the annual bike ride from Hebron to Yerushalayim, celebrating the former’s liberation.
Neighborly Chesed: Above And Beyond
My husband and I are living in our house for over 30 years. We have wonderful neighbors on both sides. The one on the right, a non-frum Jewish couple, lived in their house longer than we’ve resided in ours. We always got along very well with them, as they are unusually kind, friendly and helpful people.
Megillas Mashiach
The international community has pressured Israel since its inception. Against all odds she has flourished and grown, it is has become a true exception.
Appreciation: A High School Reunion
Who looked for wisdom? Who sat so quietly in class taking in every word that the rabbi was trying to teach us?
The Power Of Dreams
From Joseph we learn three principles. The first: Dream dreams. Second: Leaders interpret other people’s dreams. Third: Find a way to implement dreams:
Who’s Really Feeding Omar?
Since Omar was not censured, she has doubled down and continued her diatribe.
Philosophy Or Prophecy
At the heart of Judaism is a twofold understanding of the nature of God and His relationship to the universe.
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