Rav Tzvi Yehuda: 'There is the complete emunah of Avraham Avinu, and the partial emunah of the Spies in the Wilderness.' Which are you?
Abraham’s descendants, the Jewish people, have shared his test and challenge with him over our long history.
Reading this week's parsha can show us the amazing development in Abraham's life regarding a crucial existential question.
Take away the Arab votes and there was always a clear majority for traditional and rightist positions. Now it is even greater.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Every country where Jews have lived has its own Jewish history. A rabbi reminisces, stories about a once thriving Jewish community. Op-ed.
Children must do for their parents everything that a decent person would do within the framework of derech eretz (proper behavior).
And now is the season for a war over the identity and future of the State of Israel.
Rabbi kook's message to us for winter months and times of somber reality can be realized in different ways.
The sign that God showed Noah, the “rainbow in the clouds,” is a metaphor for a fundamental change.in ethical guidance for the human soul.
Hashem commands Noach to leave the ark - but why does Noach need to be commanded? What do we learn from Noach sending the raven and dove?
Rabbi Yochanan perceived that something was wrong and it is not just that Noah did not try to save his generation, as is usually said..
Terach, certainly in Yiddish, is used in a negative sense. But there is one major decision he made that we should all emulate.
Is stealing from one another really the reason for The Flood?
Ask yourselves which parties keep trying to silence dissenting voices like Arutz 14 or Arutz 7? Back to rule by the 'Sons of Elohim'?
The failure of greatness is depressing. How could the righteous man of his time end up drunk and disheveled in his tent?
Judaism is the heavy stretcher of history, and the Torah observant are those supporting it for just one more kilometer and generation.
In his vision of the future, Isaiah describes a portion of the Nation as blind in failing to see Hashem’s Hand in the start of Redemption.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Prayer is our spiritual sustenance and rain is the source of our physical sustenance. Parshiyot Bereshith and Noach exemplify that.
You do not have to go further than last week and this week's parasha to read about a world without Jews.
Stories that will touch your heart from “With Ink in the Book...Stories and Sketches of Jewish Life in Rural Centers in South Africa."
Did not Adam and Eve already have this forbidden knowledge before eating the fruit in virtue of being “in the image and likeness of God”?
There is a conceptual scheme magnificently uniting the holidays and the beginning of the rereading of the Torah at their end..
Young Religious Zionist Torah scholars research what this week's Torah reading says about the Promised Land.
The Bible doesn't menion what the fruit was, so where did the idea of an apple come from?
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: They were called nefilim, great orators whose words were empty and actions as leaders unscrupulous. A lesson.
Why does the Torah tell us the story of Chava's creation, and why does the story end with a verse that's totally out of place?
Is man, knowing morality, always above beasts? Take Australia, known as “down under”- a most appropriate name after this week.
A different kind of evolution in the first week of the universe.
The story of Creation brings us closer to Hashem
Insights from the story of Cain and Abel.
What life was like within the Garden of Eden is pretty much an unknown to us.
Three places in the Torah and prayer with the same number of words and letters cannot be coincidental.
The possibilities of what we might create by consulting with others are endless. And so are the possibilities for growth if we study Torah..
Jewish mysticism defined and a rarely evoked Torah law explained .
Is that the war we are witnessing in our time?
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Learn all about the holiday.
By reading the two parshiot on Simchat Torah, we allude to the crux of the Shma prayer - that Torah should be inscribed on our hearts. How?
Ceremony and celebration for the last part of the Sukkot holiday.
Ending the month of beginnings.
With elections ahead, we must remember on the holiday of Sukkot that 'All of the Jewish people are fit to reside in one sukkah.'
In contrast to the realm of halakha which is “less flexible”, Torah exegesis makes room for personal interpretation, but has criteria.
We can learn from the ushpizin about our own lives and the potential that lies within adversity.and pain.
The sukkah represents faith, a particular trait of the Nation of Israel whose responsibility it is to impart faith to the nations.
Take the life lost in the dark corner of your dwellings, take from the trees you brush past and enter into the festival of gathering
In the parsha Moshe blesses every single tribe individually, giving 12 Brachos. But the parsha starts with a reference to just one bracha.
Had it not been for the seeming ‘failure’ of the earth to comply with Hashem’s words when trees were created, we could not have had schach!
Articles, quotes, videos and more for individual and family enrichment.
The Sukkah is a hands on experience, no virtual Sukkah will do. And that is why it returns us to the most elemental roots of our being.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: "The divide between means and ends goes back to the beginnings of creation, but in mitzvas they are one .."
Since last year was a shemitah year, this year is a Hakhel year. Why is Sukkot is a propitious time for it?
The 1st day at post high school yeshiva, the 1st of Elul, hit me like a ton of bricks. I wanted to run away. A message for bein hazmanim.
A sukkah is a temporary dwelling. What happens to those to whom it becomes a permanent one even though a beautiful home awaits them?
Chief Rabbi and Merkaz Harav Rosh Yeshiva Rav Avraham Shapira's yahrzeit is the 1st day of Sukkot. A close talmid talks about his mentor.
What to do if it rains, who is obligated to eat in the sukkah and what foods obligate eating in it. A primer for the holiday.
This month is packed with major festivals, but we need them all.
An Etrog Tree Doesn’t Grow in Brooklyn.
