How can we be commanded by the Torah to feel in a certain way?
This year, the fast falls on Shabbat and is put off for a day, and Sephardi and Ashkenazi observance are almost the same (details below).
How could Bnei Israel show their appreciation of this priceless gift, of the Land Hashem gave them? The answer is easier for olim to do.
It is not only Joshua who is leading the Jewish people into the land of Israel, but the Patriarchs and Matriarchs.
Standing at the borders of the Holy Land, then and now.
Kurt Rothschild was a man of his word. As were the tribes who wished to expand Israel to include land on the eastern bank of the Jordan,
From Zion the Torah will go forth.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Those who disagreed with Rabbi Feinstein avoided discussing halakha with him, hoping he would retract through threats and boycotts
The Israelites traversed the desert in the heat of many summers. What gave them the strength for 42 journeys? What can we take from it?
Interview with the head of Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim addresses the hard truth about the smartphone.
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars: 'Davka those Amoraim who made aliya are the ones the Talmud quotes on the deep love of the land.'
Just as there is chillul Shabbat or desecrating Shabbat, there is also chillul dibur or desecrating our speech by not doing what we say..
The party of woke progressives made a mockery of the Holy nation in the Holy Land, but nobody gets away with it.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: Beware of beauty that covers up morally repulsive behavior.
Weekly Torah Study: Pinchas.
You will see them with their knitted kipot, M16s over their shoulders, returning from a shiur by the rosh yeshiva, an IDF officer. And you?
G-d’s gifts don’t expire. The land did not cease being ours when those nations drove us from the land.
When 2.5 tribes ask to remain on the eastern side of the Jordan River, Moshe doesn't get upset that they don't want to enter the Land. Why?
The parasha in halakha, mussar, and with words of chizuk .
Everything that is uttered from our mouths obligates us to the commitment attached to it.
A selection of rabbinic commentaries on the question.
In this week’s Torah portion Matot (Israel) we learn that there is a complete way to serve Hashem and an incomplete way.
Today’s culture advocates that if someone is famous, then we should seriously consider their opinions in every field.
Today in Israel religious soldiers prove to be dedicated fighters. Like the fighters in the parasha, they know what they are fighting for. .
The mark of a true leader is somebody who is there in the interests of those who they are serving.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
How to distinguish holy zealotry from extremism.
In the 1960’s, rabbis of Haredi Judaism ignited controversy against Rabbi Feinstein over his artificial insemination heter,
Kurt Rothschild was an exemplary human being, one whose personality made people respect and love him at the same time;
"Even though the gates of prayer are locked, the (heavenly) gates of tears have not been locked..."said Rabbi Elazar in the Talmud.
Remember the past but do not be held captive by it. Still, in today’s fast-moving culture, we undervalue acts of remembering.
A day of fasting such as today's Fast of Tammuz is not one of dieting, but of introspection, contrition and remorse for our situation today.
Through keeping these halakhot properly we strive to merit witnessing the geulah, and the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash.
The tablets were broken on this day. It is our duty to fix what is broken.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: Ancestry does have an effect on motivation as well as action.
The greatest framework of spiritual life without which that life begins to wither and die is consistent, constant faithfulness to mitzvot.
Jewish tradition does not often create aphorisms in vain. Here is the story of the first shlemiel.
The essence of the kohanic personality is to be responsible for the nation, overriding his personal interests.
Young Israeli Torah scholars: The connection between the land alloted each tribe and the tribe is substantive and above human comprehension.
In this Torah portion, we discuss the korbanot passages, which we read every day. Why are these discussed here, instead of in Leviticus?
Can living in Eretz Yisrael be compared to wearing tzitzit, obligatory only for someone wearing a 4 cornered garment?
Balaam is the perfect example of someone who tries to get away with doing anything not specifically forbidden.
Beware of the character who obsessively and disproportionately intensifies the downside in everything.
There are so many times in history that this story has repeated itself, albeit always under different circumstances.
The reasons the traiditional blessing said upon seeing a monarch should or should not be said when seeing the POTUS on his visit to Israel.
In Durban the non-military assault, a war of curses, was launched,one Israel can’t win. Soon, the court of public opinion was onto its case
Even after his wife begged him to rescind his halakhic permit of artificial insemination due to the zealots he cared more for barren women.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Two rabbis, one in our generation and one over a century ago, and three people waiting for an MRI- and all with the same message.
What did Jews think of him? Most had never heard of him; but both his supporters and opponents were Jews.
Jews were hated because of their religion, then.they were hated because of their race, now they are hated because of their nation state
Chochmah and yirah are two central aspects of human experience that are generally perceived to be disconnected from one another
We would not wear our everyday clothes to a wedding, so how much more should we dress for the Shabbat!
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: Why is idolatry so intrinsically vile? Because instead of elevating us, it lowers us to coarse physical levels.
I guess a few people dropped out of studying Daf Yomi due to the difficulty of Tractate Yevamot. I understand, but it's time to return home.
Diminutive in size, giant in spirit, Medinat Yisrael has made the world stand still more than once since its re-establishment 74 years ago.
The symbolism of the well in Chukat and the tent of Bilaam's prophecy complement one another in Jewish life.
A story told by the Lubavitcher Rebbe about a teacher who had a whip hanging from a peg in the classroom..
