How Much Do You Sleep?
The second project is 'A Home for Life.' It was established a little more than a year ago. This is a home for girls with special needs. They integrate into the community as they acquire life skills and learn how to live independently.
A Taste Of Eternity
Last week marks two years since the passing of Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and one of the most eminent Jewish voices of our generation.
Leaving Marks That Last A Lifetime
We learn not only from classes and lectures; we educate ourselves through internalized experiences and events.
Five Items Regarding The Chofetz Chaim
In his merit, and to our benefit, let's try to work on speaking less lashon hara.
Flexibility And The Iron Man
It's important to recognize that this kind of competition involves a serious investment of time.
Tallit Bag That Came Back From The War
Or told her that in Judaism it is appropriate to say a blessing upon meeting a king or queen. He asked her if he could make the blessing and she agreed.
Searching Our Souls, Finding The Goodness Within
The biggest failure is to ignore failure. My approach is that failure guides me.
Thoughts For The End Of The Summer
Nearly every connection can be severed. A friendship can fade away, a marriage can end in divorce, a contract can be breached – but the ties between parents and children can never be undone.
In His Memory
We must believe and know with absolute certainty that ultimately everything will turn out well, the rabbi proclaimed.
A Prayer Regarding Politics And The News
Make a portion of your Torah a part of me so that I do not waste my time reading articles and hearing analysis based on guesses and futile evaluations that pop up all of a sudden and are just as quickly proven wrong.
What Do We Learn From Rashi?
One of the things he said that really moved me was this: 'Do you know what is so beautiful in all of this? That you seem so free and are having so much fun'.
What Are Our Priorities?
The special connection between the six days of the week and Shabbat goes both ways. Shabbat, too, is influenced by the content of our week.
Five Facts About The Life Of Rabbi Chaim Ben Attar
Most of you never heard of Kurt Rothschild who passed away last week at the age of 101, but it is reasonable to assume that most of you benefited from him in some way.
The Daily Chase
Without a regular lesson, without a study partner (because of the schedule in the unit that changes constantly), Noam looked for a slot of free time every day.
The Shallow Brook We Dare Not Cross
It would seem that the problem was not in the stream but in the people. The Children of Israel disparaged the Land of Israel through the negative report of the spies and they had still not rectified this sin.
Malachi’s Friends
In the Torah portions that we are currently reading, it is noted time and again that as soon as the people arrived at a new place, they immediately erected the Mishkan, the people's spiritual center and beating heart.
How Do You See Yourself?
After all, summer vacation is not a vacation from values or from anything that is important to us. It's a vacation from school alone.
To Taste The Flavor
The most important question in life is how do we manage time, particularly the two months of vacation.
To Desire!
We need to pay attention to our bodies. We speak about values and Torah but ignore the fact that the body is the tool upon which values and Torah depend.
Our Children
Once they asked a wise man to talk about his greatest dream. He answered that he had many dreams and professional aspirations, but above...
Everyone Matters!
Even within large groups, or even within an entire nation, each individual has a special place and a unique mission. Each person is important.
Neta’s Triumph
Rabbi Greenblatt remembers that the rav stood in tallit and tefillin, looked him in the eyes, and gave him a blessing that he should become a talmid chacham and merit to live a long life. The second blessing materialized, he smiled, I hope the first did, too.
Our Brother
We are accustomed to transitioning from the sadness of Memorial Day to the joy of Independence Day, but how do we transition in the opposite direction, from independence to mourning?
What Did You Take From Pesach?
Don't say the holiday is over and done, but that the holiday has given us something more.
I Was A Slave In Egypt
One of the major messages of the Lubavitcher Rebbe was to utilize every situation in which we find ourselves for good.
Grandma’s Tears
Do not allow any bad thought to arise in our hearts, heaven forbid, neither when we are awake nor in a dream.
Three Messages From The Funeral
His son, Rabbi Shlomo Kanievsky touched the crowd with stories of childhood games played with his father, the mastermind, and uncovered a little bit about the relationship with his deceased wife, Batsheva.
Getting Excited For The Right Reason
On Shabbat we finished reading the book of Exodus with its emotional description of the completion of the Mishkan, the spiritual center that accompanied us in the desert. This apparently was the first crowd-funding endeavor of our people.
Shabbat In Kharkov, Ukraine
Alexander Kaganovsky, president of our cong. asked for silence and said: 'I want to thank all the emissaries who have stayed behind with us. For many years you have been saying that you are an inseparable part of us, but now you proved it in the moment of truth.'
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These last two years have demonstrated how vital it is to feel solidarity not only toward those who have passed away but toward those who have been sick but are not yet fully recovered, toward business owners, toward coping parents, and, in fact, toward everyone who has been affected,--which means every one of us.
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