Dvar Torah from young religious Zionist Torah scholars:' Are Jews impulsive?.Only when it is the rational way to behave...'
All things belong to G-d ,yet the choices of the heart are left in the control of His creations.
The enemies of the Jews live under the illusion that if they destroy Jewish places of worship they can destroy the Jewish People.
Bad things may happen but God has already given us the remedy if we know where to look for it.
Where exactly is that Sanctuary located?
An independent Jewish government is not just a political accomplishment or a refuge against enemies, but the beginning of the Redemption.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Hashem expresses a double name and the names of a few characters in Tanakh are doubled as well. There is a pattern of meaning here.
If you stand in front of a mirror.you see the human structure. A closer look reveals that you are a miniature Beit Hamikdash.
In the month of Adar, we have an opportunity to connect with simple joy, to rejoice in just being alive.
The seal of Hashem is truth, and those who serve Him must refrain from any use of lies to strengthen faith.
The basic question is the problem of defining the behavior that we wish to accompany our lofty moral goals. Where is this to be found?
Become an expert in one mitzvah and gradually expand to a second, a third, a fourth one, and eventually the total mitzvah-life
The Covenant at Sinai was the most crucial event in all of Jewish history. How come there is a debate about when it occurred?
Jewish law insists on humane treatment of slaves, but why bore a hole in the ear of a slave who wishes to continue and why at the doorpost?
Is snow on Shabbat muktza or not? That depends...
Parshat Mishpatim is all about us and our relationships with each other.
We are told the Jews said, 'We will do & we will listen' - but they said that after hearing it 3x! How is that 'doing' before 'listening?'
Torah is an all-encompassing circle in which all laws are equidistant from Hashem, as Parashat Mishpatim shows.
'Eim HaBanim Semeichah', by a great Haredi Torah scholar, Rabbi Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal Hy'd, explains why haredi anti-Zionism is wrong..
Why does the Torah say to rest on the Sabbath "in order that" your animals should rest?
The dough that did not rise in the ghetto and other lessons.
Not all the Jews will hear the call to aliya, just as the 80% in Egypt did not hear or heed the call - and that is very sad.
The Chasidic masters would often remind us that we are each critical to G-d.
If knowledge, emotion, and reason lead us to be moral, why is it that humans hate, harm and kill?
A Kabbalistic analysis on the laws of the Cities of Refuge, in which Moshe is the reincarnation of Hevel.
God hears. So must we. We must look unflinchingly at the horror endured by the most vulnerable people in our time, victims of sexual abuse.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life..
We can infuse our entire week with that sense of completeness by viewing everything through the lens of Shabbat,
Moshe Rabbeinu’s level of prophecy was distinct from all other prophets in his clear vision, and in his ability to prophesize at all times.
Aphorisms of the Kotzker, each short in words but deep in meaning.
Media and other voices insist that the ‘hilltop youth’ movement is a negative phenomenon. Not true. So what are they?
There are hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Israelis not interested in a halakhic conversion or a lifestyle of any Torah observance.Op-ed.
Failure to understand these basics of our connection to God distorts the true meaning of faith.
The devastation of the past two years is a call to take stock.Everyone on the planet is trying to make sense of the drama that unfolded.
A tale of two Haims explains how you can tell which way you are headed.
Israel's first Cheif Rabbi: 'A blessing for a miracle must include recognition of the benefits of the miracle’s accompanying details.'
How Rav Naphtali of Rupshitz shared a story and lesson from his childhood that influenced his entire life.
Are we commanded to believe in Hashem, or is it a function of our free will?
What exactly did Moshe tell Yitro? What new information did Yitro learn from Moshe that got him to declare "There's no G-d like Hashem"?
The reward for honoring one’s parents holds only in Eretz Yisrael; it is not the individual’s length of days, but that of the entire nation.
Humanity today awaits to see what is next. Nuclear war? Decimation through viral infection? Economic disaster? Racial and religious wars?
What is the best entry point through which more people can engage better with their Judaism?
'If Itamar had made that error, what would I want for him? And the answer is that I would want for him the strength to move beyond this.'
Understanding the logical structure of the Ten Commandments, Many alternatives have been tried for these laws, and most have ended in tears.
Jewish belief is clear and concise: G-d gave the Torah to Moshe, Moshe commanded it to us - but who actually said the 10 Commandments?
It's a tough tug of war between competing standards of conversion, but passing a conversion law that is not widely accepted is useless.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Yitro heard and acted on what he heard. What about the rest?.
One people one heart, or one heart one people? They are not the same but we do not have to be the same to be one people with one heart..
I once asked him if he had any regrets and he smiled “Not at all. I only wish I had had more strength to do what needed to be done.”
As we were reading of Amalek’s attack on the Jews at Rephidim, another Jew-hater attacked Congregation Beth Israel. There is a message here.
Today’s post-Zionist orientation is an acceptance and even legitimization of the Exile. We need a new head with "a new head." Op-ed.
If anyone had asked the Israelites to articulate what took place they would not have been able to give a straight answer.
A story told about the power of a Jewish holiday, even Tu B'Shvat, to touch the soul.
Faith is natural to man.Without it, he would be unable to act and create. Paganism was born out of his difficulty to reach an infinite God.
The principle behind Hillel and Shammai’s dispute as to whether the New Year for Trees is on the 1st of Shvat(Shammai) or the 15th(Hillel).
It took two strong men to carry a cluster of grapes. Not only was the fruit gigantic, there were also giants in the Land."
Winter is a crucial part of spring, suffering a crucial part of celebration, failure an essential ingredient to success.
