This week’s Torah reading mentions an incredible proclamation, as the verses say (10:14-15), “God owns the heavens and the highest of the heavens, the land and all it contains. Only […]
We’ve all heard the expression, “When one door closes, another one opens.” Well, maybe not all of us, but it’s pretty wide-spread. The idea behind this is that we shouldn’t […]
Tish’ah B’av – The Powers of Yom Kippur Tish’ah B’av is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar on which we mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple. Yet, we […]
Every year on Tish’ah B’av, the day on which our Holy Temple was destroyed, we mourn the awful fate which has befallen our nation. Many of our woes can be […]
In this week’s Torah reading, Moses rebuked the Jews in the desert for crying over entering the Land of Israel. As they neared the Promised Land after leaving Egypt, they […]
Warming Food on Shabbos < Lesson 2: Zones of the Blech Lesson 3: Serving Food From the Blech IMPORTANT NOTE: Please see Option 2 in the transcription below for halachic clarification on moving […]
An Award-Winning Journalist Last year, I learned about a series of awards given out to journalists who write for Jewish publications. I had a bit of a Yetzer Hara to […]
For a few months, my daughter was working somewhere that was rather far from home. One day, I had occasion to pass within a few minutes of the facility in […]
In this week’s Torah reading, the Jews went to war against the people of Midian, as God commanded Moses that they should do. When the men returned from the war, […]
