Shabbat Nachamu" Beginning a time of consolation
Healing occurs when one believes that there is yet a future ahead.
Healing occurs when one believes that there is yet a future ahead.
Words are not enough.When you ask me why, I do not have the words to answer, my friend.
Rashi expounds:’Fair and good’: compromising, acting beyond the strict demands of the law. What do other commentators say?
Surveys reveal that only about 15% of Diaspora Jews have visited Israel. To me, that’s embarrassing.
Why was the wording altered in Va'etchanan?
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
At readers' request below are memories of some of Rabbi Hutner's disciples.
The people of Israel are not afraid of the dawn; because light clarifies things. They seem alone, but G-d is with them.
This year the fast is on Sunday although the 9th of Av is on Shabbat. Here is how to keep the laws in this situation.
How can such a tragic day, on which five calamities occurred, culminating in the Destruction itself, be called a mo’ed?
Israel's first Chief Rabbi's prescient words: There are nations addicted to brute force and aggression and It becomes part of their pshyche.
We do not know exactly how the Redemption will come about and in what order things will occur, but let us be prepared!
The Torah wasn’t given to be kept in Sinai, nor in Brooklyn or Beverly Hills. The Torah isn’t a “religion” like Buddhism or Christianity,
We do not fast on Shabbat (except for Yom Kippur).This year the 9th of Av is on Shabbat, so we fast Sat. night and Sunday. A primer.
Who is talking in the book of Devarim - is it Moshe giving his own speech? Or did Hashem command Moshe to give this speech?
The power of derech eretz.- it is impossible to be rude, arrogant, rough and unpleasant while remaining a devoted servant of God.
Mourning and yearning for the house built for His people and eventually for the world.
Are there elements of fasting on Shabbat the 9th of Av even though it is forbidden to fast on Shabbat?
Moshe communicates a message to the generation in the desert and about to enter an unknown land, and he resonates on for eternity.
How a well-intentioned organization became an infamous bloc of nations that blames Israel for all the world's ills.
It is supremely appropriate that it is precisely during the Three Weeks that we meet up again and become re-united in our Torah-readings.
This month we are presented with a foretelling of destruction, but we are also told ”But this do I call to mind, therefore I have hope."
Inspiration and memory - would that we had the ability to come close to the level of the people written about below.
In these vignettes we learn from Rashi, Savta Rabbanit Bramson, Moshe Rabbeinu and the Farkash family in Monsey.
We mourn and fast, pray and beseech Hashem for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. But what will happen?
What is permitted, what is forbidden - when and why.
Weekly Torah study - Justice and atonement.
People say there is no mitzvah to make Aliya today, since the Rambam did not include it on his list of mitzahs.They need to delve deeper.
In all of Jewish literature, one would be hard-pressed to find a single statement glorifying self-esteem. Humility, however, is much lauded.
The Torah reading during the Three Weeks is not happenstance, but the map for a nation's journey to Redemption.
Jews cried because they "remembered Zion" - why didn't they remember the bloodshed and suffering inflicted on them instead?
The alleged corruption revealed in the past few days in Israel should remind us of Torah admonitions about conditions for retaining the land
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: We must counter baseless hatred, sinat chinam, with baseless love, ahavat chinam.
Why does the Torah send an 'accidental' murderer to a city of refuge instead of banning the victim's blood relatives from taking revenge?
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. .