Why does the Torah present this seemingly random commandment immediately after one of the most well-known stories of sin and consequence?
A single gesture toward a baby reverberates throughout History.
Didn't everyone know there would be trouble?
We should never forget that whatever it is we’re doing or saying in life, it’s never totally off the record, because the mic is always on.
Tzahal, the most respected institution in Israel, will one day be a holy army, and
The point is for our thoughts about G-d to take over our minds and lead us in directions we did not anticipate.
The medium is not unlike Mount Sinai engulfed in fire and smoke at the giving of the Torah. Are we being told to go back to that message?
Self-efficacy is a key to achievement. If you don't think much of yourself, how will others will look at you?
Today, we see the people who claim to represent democracy looking down with contempt at the masses. That's an anti-Torah way to act.
The widely cited figures of graduates of the religious education system who become secular are inflated, and stand at less than 20%.
In Tribute to Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz and Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, Torah pioneers in America.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Harav Kanievski zt"l: “It is a mitzvah of the Torah to make Aliyah!”
We need the balance of the wins and the failure, the pull to the good and the pull to the bad,
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: What determined the length of Moses’ prayers? Why did his own sister merit only a brief, one-line prayer?
Is ascetisim what is requested from us?
One must nurture, sometimes nudge, the flickering wick until the flame illuminates on its own. So it is with mentoring.
Why did Am Yisrael require trumpets for gathering and signaling their departure? How do the trumpets impact our relationship with Hashem?
The 3 families of the Levites and the 3 phases of Jewish History.
Why in Parashat Behaalotcha, trumpets are blown in war, while in Parashat Ki Teitzei victory is not dependent upon blowing the trumpets?
The Giving of the Torah to Israel rectified an entire world which was subject to slavery, incest, and injustice in law
When kohanim offer their blessing, they must clear their minds and focus solely on being a channel through whom the blessing flows.
Today, as then, there are people who simply have to complain - and those whose gripes are murmured ceaselessly.
'Those who are ignorant of Torah despise Torah scholars even more than gentiles hate Jews;' On the anti reilgious protests.
Peace contains everything for a good life.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
All that was needed was a minyan to say Kaddish...
It is difficult for a Jew to leave Mount Sinai, so we try a little longer to stay at the bottom of the mountain.
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For most, breaking middot is a lifetime of work that never stops.
Judaism's view of alternations to one's skin, marital loyalty and ascetics.
Death is the last mitzva; the last rite. It should never be a profit-making business. Op-ed.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi:It is axiomatic that the Jewish soul and the Torah are a match made in heaven
In Israel, it is rare to need to prepare Eiruv Tavshilin, but this Shavuot both those of us in the Diaspora and in Israel will be making it.
How can we implore Hashem to grant us favor when the Torah teaches us that He neither shows favoritism nor accepts bribes?
The entire chapter of Rabbi Eliezer Melamed's Peninei Halakha, the comprehensive compendium of Halakha, on Shavuot.
"Always remember that you are totally unique. Just like everyone else." -- attributed to Margaret Mead
Shavuot synthesises the Torah and the Land of Israel perfectly: G-d gave us His Torah on this day to keep in the Land of Israel.
Parashat Naso contains the laws of the Sotah - a woman suspected of adultery,
Did our parents brainwash us? And on the tradition to bring all Jew to shul on Shavuos to hear the Ten Commandments read on the holiday.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi:'The nation as a whole needs God’s house standing...every detail declaring awe and reverence for God.'
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Ramban:’Had not Israel accepted the Torah, the world would have returned to nothingness, BY ITSELF...’.
But - we sink or swim together, just as a kosher Torah needs all its letters to be kosher.
As the reliance on miracles rose, calamities approached. Op-
The people who least care about religion are the ones who claim to live by the Ten Commandments.
Iyar 28, this past Friday, is the date Rabbi Kook arrived in the Land of Israel. Jerusalem was liberated 63 years later on that very date.
Civilization is built primarily on values, morality, beliefs, ethics, principles, and attitudes towards human life.
Whose fault is it? And who pays? A true story leading to a halakhic debate.
In America, frustration mingled with hope during the Holocaust.
What's in a name?
Why did Hashem send Rome to throw us into exile? Why are the descendants of Rome our worst enemies to this very day?
A selection of well-known contemporary commentators on the parasha and the upcoming holiday.
Each name is a thread in the tapestry that is Am Israel - but why not do the same in parashat Pinchas, a later census?
I wonder to myself,,,
Moses counted the Israelites using the half shekel each had donated. Are the Jews just money?
The line of struggle for Jerusalem does not only cross Jews and non-Jews.
Who owns Judaism?
How quickly we forget 2000 years of galut and the wings of eagles that have carried us home! How quickly we forget!
The Israelites spent a long time in a state of unknowing. They had no first-hand knowledge of where they were going.
