Get inspiration for Parshat Vayishlach with TorahMates Coordinator Rabbi Louis Friedman, on this week’s Thursday Thought.
First Haircut Chalakah or Upsherin1 refers to the Jewish custom of cutting a boy’s hair at his third birthday.2 In many Jewish communities, they refrain from cutting a young boy’s […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Every year, as we light our menorah, my children express their disappointment that our little flames seem so insignificant next to all the […]
Power Prayers On each day of Chanukah, we recite the full Hallel during Shacharit prayers. This beautiful tefillah, often sung, is a heartfelt expression of praise and gratitude to Hashem […]
How? On the first night of Chanukah, one candle is lit. Each night after that, one candle is added to the menorah so that by the eighth night, eight candles […]
Who’s Who? Jewish Year/Secular Year Event 0/3760 BCE Creation of the World 2448/1312 BCE Hashem takes the Jews out of Egypt and gives them the Torah at Har Sinai 2928/832 […]
Chanukah is a joyful eight-day holiday celebrated in early winter, usually in December. It commemorates events that took place nearly 2,200 years ago! Back then, the Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple) […]
With all the scams and con artists in the world, people have to come up with ways to identify the truth and know if they’re really speaking to who they […]
This week’s Torah reading tells us about how Yaakov (Jacob) went to Charan, the birthplace of his mother Rivka, and stayed with his uncle, Lavan (Laban). Yaakov and Lavan struck […]
In this week’s Torah reading, Parshas Vayetzei, our forefather Yaakov (Jacob) worked for his father-in-law, Lavan (Laban), as a shepherd. At a certain point, they agreed that whichever new animals […]
