Making a Home for Hashem This week’s Torah reading revolves around the building of the Mishkan (Tabernacle). God commanded the Jewish Nation (Shemot 25:8), “And they shall make a sanctuary […]
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Her Early End The pronouncement on that Friday, the doctor’s stark words casting a shadow over the approaching holiness, felt like a finality we were unwilling to accept. “Hashem is […]
Lessons of Emunah, Tzedakah, and Shabbat There are stories we choose to tell—and then there are stories we are chosen to carry. This is one of the latter. From the […]
A Couple’s TorahMate Story My husband and I both grew up in similar homes with the basic Jewish expectations: lighting Shabbat candles, doing kiddush on Shabbat — but that was […]
Introduction The horrific Har Nof Massacre that took place in Israel, in November of 2014, shook the Jewish world to its core. Two terrorists invaded a synagogue as the men […]
Botched Plans “Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine,” has new meaning to me. We, Baruch Hashem (thank God), had a simcha (happy occasion) […]
It was the twenty-fifth of December, And when she closes her eyes she remembers, Just how it was. A Jewish girl from Queens, Had fulfilled her secret dreams, Decorating that […]
We Shall Find Our Faith In Mind It is customary to read the Book of Ruth, or Megillat Rut, on the holiday of Shavuot. You may wonder, what is the […]
All We Take With Us Here comes a tale of what happened to us, When we left Eretz Yisroel. We sent back a lift with all of our stuff. Big […]
It was almost time to bentsch licht on the first night of Pesach. The table was set with all their most beautiful china and there in the middle, in its […]
