Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a Match… A Roman matron asked R’ Yosi ben Chalafta (Bereishit Rabbah 68:4), “Since He created the world what is God busy doing?” He answered that […]
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If Looks Could Kill Years ago, I remember upsetting my brother. Now, that wasn’t so memorable, because I was the annoying kid brother and he was the annoyed big brother. […]
Yellow Light, Red Light, 1-2-3 It was a typical, busy day, and I was driving back from some errands. Thankfully, the line at the bank wasn’t too long, and I […]
Weather and Politics There’s an old joke attributed to various Nineteenth-Century American writers that essentially says, “Lots of people talk about the weather, but they never do anything about it.” […]
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) […]
Teshuvah (Repentance) – A Daunting Task? As we enter the month of Elul, many people become more somber. They realize that judgment day is around the corner, and that they […]
The Last Place You Look “Why is it,” goes the old joke, “that when you’re looking for something, you always find it in the last place you look?” The answer, […]
The Pennies will Grow into Dollars There’s an old expression: “Mind the pennies, and the dollars will watch themselves.” What it means is that if you are careful with the […]
For Good… Quite often, when someone grows up to be a superstar, people will say, “The signs were there.” Even when he was little, he would… It doesn’t matter what […]
