G-d promises us in His Torah that if we keep His mitzvot in His Land, then He will give peace throughout the world.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi and advocate for returning to the Land, on the anguished question: Why should the Jewish people be in exile?
The last two parshas teach the Written Law and Rabbi Shlomo haKohen, Rebbe of Radomsk, teaches his hassidim a lesson in faith..
Why does G-d's reprimand to the Jewish people end with a double 'remembering'? Where is the redemption after all of the punishment?
Fifty represents a quantum leap upwards letting go and trusting fully in G-d.
30 hours in prison was enough to realize how special it is to live in the Medina - the tochacha is enough to realize that every Jew should.
As important as knowledge of history is – and I consider it to be very important – history alone can ever preserve us.
No matter the joy of the modern Habakkuk, we see today's Babylonians, the evil so-called Palestinians, again murder our best people.
The incredible wonder of Lag Ba’Omer in Israel, where the revival of the Jewish Nation in Israel is a wonder that is impossible to explain.
What is the best way to make the world a better place. Revolution or Evolution? What was Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's misconception?
Significant actions significantly impact a significant world
Similarities can be drawn between the controversies over the heter mechira and conversion to what is called traditional Jewish observance.
There are prizes and prizes. There are prizes in this world and prizes in the World to Come..
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Judaism isn’t prudish, nor does it think that sex is wicked or shameful.
Keeping the prohibition on taking interest from one's fellow Jew is relying on the God who took us out of Egypt to bring us sustenance.
Rabbi Greenblatt passed away last week, after almost 100 years in which he was able to study, teach and share his memories of Rav Kook.
A brief History of the Hetter Mechirah, its Halakhic underpinnings and reasons to support the Hetter as did Israel's first Chief Rabbi.
Torah from young Religious Zionist Torah scholars: A story about Rav Mordechai Eliyahu zts"l shows God's blessings timed for our benefit.
After a Covid-caused lapse of two years, we finally have ShabbatUK! It’s going to be an exceptionally special Shabbat.
Parshat Behar: Is Shmita really about the land resting?
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai will not give up on anything and it is impossible for him to compromise and wait for things to unfold.
We can be G-d’s partners in holiness.G-d has given us, His people, the power to restore a Torah-commandment.Shmitta and soon, Yovel.
Time is unaffected by us. It moves on, second by second, tick by tick, regardless of our efforts. And yet we are told to count.
Mount Sinai exemplifies the mountain that Abraham saw.
The USA used to be a guilt culture but has skewed toward a shame culture with no forgiveness. Judaism is a guilt culture. Hence Yom Kippur.
Three occasions--Akedat Yitzchak, the receiving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, and the year of the yovel, have commonality.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Two stories showing the extent of religious observance demanded by the rabbinate for conversion.
The penalty for blasphemy in this parasha makes this question a moot one, and positing that there have to be limits for free speech
The word "emor" is softer than the usual "daber" found in the Torah. Why is "emor" used at the start of the parasha and later on "daber"?
This is the best-educated generation of women in human and Jewish history and that speaks for itself..
In Parashat Behar, those with whom you do business are called "brothers." How apt for Yonatan Habakuk, victim of the Elad terror murders.
In 1907, decades before the Holocaust, Rabbi Kook called out to the entire House of Israel with a plea:to come to Eretz Yisrael. Op-ed.
Around us is an almost palpable presence of tranquility, but we find ourselves in a world of rage.
A book which brings inspiring and beautiful interpretation to Mishnayot which, at first, seem to be just legal disputes between the Sages.
Why did the son of an Egyptian man blaspheme?
Judaism, which always is a meritocracy, nevertheless, creates an aristocracy in the priesthood of Aaron and his descendants.
From mourning to celebrating to mourning - in three days.
Perhaps it is not coincidence that Parashat Emor almost always falls in the 23-day period between Yom Ha'atzmaut and Yom Herut Yerushalayim.
You are only hateful when you speak hatefully about another. You are not hateful when you espouse an opinion.
This week, we learn about the person who cursed using G-d's Name - but the Torah doesn't tell us his name, only his mother's. Why?
The Jewish people categorise all the victims of the Holocaust and later, all terror victims, as “those who died al kiddush Hashem.”
Rav Kook, in England, fought the letter written by Jewish leaders against a Jewish state - and won.
Ben Gurion sent a piper to fly him to Tel Aviv to vote for founding the state. He decided to bless shehecheyanu at the ceremony and did!
"There is no question that the State of Israel is a miracle and although it is ours by way of suffering, 'with your blood you shall live!'"
There is no rational explanation for this country's victory in 1948 and its success. We thank Hashem for it, but a new holiday? and Hallel?
Demographically, the people of Israel have not yet recovered from the death blow inflicted upon them by the Nazi tyrant in the Holocaust
A collection of resources for learning about Israel's special days and teaching them to the family.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
A story shows how one's middot, literally 'measures', but alluding to values, are central to mitzvas, as is Counting the Omer.
“Thank you, G-d, Thank you for taking me out of America. Thank you for making me realize that George Washington isn’t my real forefather.."
Iyar as a month of healing is not merely a word play, but an essential time from Nissan to Sivan for national refinement and recuperation.
Iyar is the month when we shake off the dust and rise to greatness! Chodesh Tov!!
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: Not remonstrating wtih someone doing something wrong shows that instrinsically, you do not really object..
This parsha tells the story of one of the greatest, if rarely acknowledged, contributions of Judaism to the world.
The Torah clearly indicates that the ends do not justify the means and that ethical dealings are more important than profits.
When we represent another perrson while doing something, who bears ultimate responsibility for those deeds?
Others will not, cannot, and are not meant to be responsible in our place.
