Noa converted through the Israeli Rabbinate and created a presence on social media to help give support to others who want to convert the right way. She sent us her story.
So all-encompassing is this commandment that a person performs it even while he sleeps!
It's essential to understand that the war waged against us is not merely a territorial dispute but a battle for the soul of our nation.
The desert is a place which inspires inner peace, calm, simplicity, silence.
The Jewish nation will outlive all of its arrogant, evil, demented enemies, who in the words of Daniel "will be reduced like chaff on a threshing floor”.
While the army must fight the enemy, it is ultimately Hashem who provides the victory if the Jewish people deserve it by prayer and good deeds.
We are bidden to deal with problems to the extent that we can and not to dwell on them and constantly complain about them.
The Anxiety Inside of You is Testimony to Your Search for Authenticity,
The purpose of the Torah and mitzvot is to foster a connection between the people of Israel and God, They wanted the opposite.
Young religious Zionist scholars find connections between the Torah reading and the Land of israel.
Why the trumpets, which represent our ingathering, our points of reflection in times of joy and challenge, can’t be reused.
A true leader is somebody who guarantees that the community doesn’t only feel the presence of Hashem in Shul, in the sanctuary, but wherever we are. And there is another key feature.
Our ancestors didn’t know their arrival and departure dates.
We have already missed two opportunities to return home and to possess our Land, the first in Parashat Beha’alot’cha and the second in the Haftarah. The third opportunity is now, today.
This discovey serves as a powerful reminder of the Divine promise and protection over the land and its chosen people.
Today we have soldiers who embody the living proof of the integration of what Chazal referred to as the sifra (book) and saifa (sword).
The mitzvah of the moment is to awaken your congregations to take immediate steps to begin the process of Aliyah.
The current war compels us to return to the fundamental position that the Land of Israel was given to the People of Israel by God. We must clarify to the world that this is not merely a conflict between neighbors, but Islam’s war against the People of Israel, and its Torah .
When the State of Israel is hard-pressed to defend itself from savage enemies on two fronts, from the north and the south, where are the young Jews of America? Why don’t they come to the rescue?
Travesties of justice from the auto-da-fé in Spain, Dreyfus in France, Beilis in Russia, to the Nuremberg Laws in Germany and the ICJ & ICC in The Hague against Israel
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life. It has revolutionized the way we think about G -d the human soul, the world and our place in it.
Why are the Hebrew words for education and strangulation connected?
Yearning for holiness should not come at the expense of participation in this world and in community life, with all that such implies.
Rebbe Yehoshua Ben Levi taught that only those involved in Torah study are truly free. How?
In the army, there are soldiers who are assigned to places where they do not want to serve. Sometimes these soldiers are disgruntled, and when students in a particular yeshiva asked the head of the yeshiva what they should do about the unwanted assignment, he quoted them the words of Maimonides regarding the Levites.
Religious Zionist Torah scholars find connections between the week's Torah reading and the Land of Israel: Where G-d's Name was pronounced.
The Torah describes for us quite clearly and vividly the necessity for some manifestation of monasticism, be it permanent or temporary, in Jewish life and social order.
Homecoming is complicated. So is the day after.
The Rav famously said, there's no kedusha without hachana - no holiness without preparation. And now, where do we find ourselves on the ladder to holiness once Shavuot is over?
Where would one expect that God would reveal His Torah to the Jewish people?
At the end of days, the nations will claim that they are entitled to be rewarded, even though they did not keep the Torah.
An analysis of the haredi attitude towards the army.
'When the Written Torah will be translated into the secular tongues, and the nations of the world will claim that they received the Torah from G-d and are the chosen religion, the Jewish response to prove the veracity of our claim as the one true religion will be that we have the Oral Torah, which contains the deeper understandings of the written Torah.'
We might do well here to recall Shavuot 5708 (1948) - and compare it with Shavuot 1967.
Ruth is a story about two brave women who transcend tragic circumstances in order to make a lasting contribution to the Jewish people. The Book of Ruth is also a story of Malkhut.
It has no special mitzvot nor does it have a tractate. But it has a special theme like no other holiday.
Shavuot is the festival when we celebrate the receiving of the Torah and, in the words of the late Chief Rabbi Sacks zt”l, we celebrate being “free to” live a Jewish life.
What is behind the fact that the Torah itself never specifically commands us to mark this day as a holiday?
Today, the Lord of the Flies is no allegory. Hamas has shown us in graphic detail the face of descent into savage chaos. And the world's reaction shows that it can succeed. Opinion.
The everyday, the mundane - these are not the opposite of holiness, but simply the open space that invites holiness in at every moment.
The State of Israel must urgently develop a practical contingency plan for the absorption of European Jewry into Israel.
The question which Torah was given at Sinai relates to an important controversy between Rabbi Yishmael and Rabbi Akiva.
On whatever path man may choose to go, he must place God’s Tent of Meeting in the center of his consciousness.
No matter how bleak and barren the desert landscape in which we currently find ourselves, we should always be cognizant of the ability of Torah to refresh and renew us.
The corruption of universities Is a call to reinvigorate Jewish Education.
The lesson to be learned from a group of young girls in Toronto.
No matter how you break it down, we are all part of those 603,550 that Moses counted in the desert.
Various Torah commentaries' o;pinions on the reason the tribe of Levi had a different status.
In Jewish law, a maidservant isn’t a lowly slave.
Counting people, according to Rav Mordechai Yosef Leiner, the author of the Mei haShiloach, can be a two edged sword.
A close student of Rabbi Kook answers a troubling question about the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967.
At the Red Sea, in the Holy Temples, in the Six Day War and in Israel today with every missile intercepted by our side - we are witness to G-d's miracles.
When we are united, victory can be achieved.
I call upon all Guardians of Torah and Jewish educators in the Diaspora to teach, in addition to the mitzvot of keeping Shabbat, Taharat HaMishpachah, Kashrut, and the like, the exalted mitzvah of living in the land of Israel, equal to all the others put together.
"What is the meaning of:’if you follow My statutes’? It means that you toil in the study of Torah..".
For thousands of years, the wisdom of astronomy and the wisdom of astrology were intertwined, and the sages of the nations of the world believed in both.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life. It has revolutionized the way we think about G -d the human soul, the world and our place in it.
God invited Job to rule the world.
Every seemingly banal religious act is a precious moment of communion with God in the midst of our daily affairs.
