What is the significance of the number seven in a parsha about rebuke? And what does the phrase 'seven on your sins' truly mean?
Sometimes being close means feeling far.
D’var Torah for Parshat Bechukotai.
Hashem promised us three periods of exile – each one better than the next.
Though we pray regularly for health and serenity, we must always be cognizant of how precarious situations truly are.
Free will distinguishes us from all other species in Hashem’s creation - mineral, flora, fauna and angels - we alone have the freedom to choose. So?
Michelangelo once said, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Young, Religious Zionist Torah scholars find connections between each week's Torah reading and Eretz Yisrael.
What would the Rebbe tell his followers to do in the face of growing antisemitism in the West if he were with us today?
Hashem is always sending us signs of what we should do. Many times we do not understand the signs or we completely ignore them. Like the story of the boat that came to save the rabbi from a flood.
Our world is likened to a corridor that leads to a palace.
Why wait for an October 7th to say the blessing for the soldiers? Why wait for Hamas to act before you daven?
In the merit of Ilan Cohen’s heroic self-sacrifice, may his memory be a blessing, we will defeat our enemies
Last week Rabbi Leo Dee spoke to a shul congregation in Teaneck, New Jersey. This is a transcriipt of what he told them: Come home. Those signs are for you too.
October 7th is not Holocaust Remembrance Day!
We are a people who hope. Always.
It was not 24,000 students but two non-cohesive groups of 12,000 each. An analysis of the meaning of this presentation.
Jews who are ignorant about their roots and history cannot fight back against antisemitism. Op-ed.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: The holiness of the Land of Israel is independent of those mitzvot that may be fulfilled while living there. The primary holiness of the Land is reflected in the mitzvah to settle it,
Commentators explain why Shmitta transgression is punished severaly and what reliance of Hashem it proposesl
Chinuch explains that if one is allowed to defend their physical property to the fullest extent of the law, for sure when facing verbal abuse and threats to one’s emotional and spiritual health one can respond in kind.
In your life "it ain’t over" until G-d says it’s over—and G-d says it’s not over until you win.
There iis a fundamental difference between these two Shabbatot.
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars connect the week's parasha to Eretz Yisrael.
Being a slave to man can not coexist with the servitude to God.
If the Prop;het Daniel were here, who would he single out as today's Belshazar? Perhaps all of them...
Why did Yericho’s walls crumble to the ground?
Spain, Ireland and Norway (SIN) have sinned against humanity by recognizing a non-existent PA state.
Both teach us the same crucial values.
We must take stock of what has happened to us and why it happened. But asking “Who is to blame” will neither help nor change our current situation.
Rabbi Meni Even Israel, son of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Executive Director of the Steinsaltz Center, reveals how his father's work to make the Torah more accessible is now more accessible than ever online.
The mitzvah of “Lo Takifu” (not rounding the hairline) distinguishes the Jewish people through their hair, just as the mitzvah of circumcision distinguishes them through their bodies.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life. It has revolutionized the way we think about G -d the human soul, the world and our place in it.
Instead of reading the handwriting on the wall, Diaspora Jews are begging Gentile governments for the chance to stay where they are. For Theodore Herzl's birthday.
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars find connections between Eretz Yisrael and the parsha.
Predicting the future is more precarious than walking on thin ice in June.
D’var Torah for Parshat Emor
Does physical condition matter in spiritual service? Shouldn't the focus for priests serving in the Temple be solely on one's spiritual connection??
Happiness for the Jewish community will be achieved when you realize that – despite the tragedies – we are blessed as one of the most unique people in the world.
And why are there so many commandments where one recalls the Exodus from Egypt? The answers to the two questions are connected.
Chapter 3 in a series.
In the “Kel malei” prayer recited for a deceased person, we ask the Almighty, “provide a proper resting place beneath the wings of the Shechinah.”
I find that this week's Parsha contains a powerful message for us, after having just celebrated Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haátzmaut -and especially this year because of the war in Gaza.
Rina's Book of Psalms had glass and blood on the page with Psalms 109 and 110. Could it be that Rina had been reading this page at the moment that the first bullets entered the car? What is the message for us?
On Sukkot, both nature and man recede into the background.
Rabbi Hayim David (1924-1988) supported the Zionist movement that dealt with the mitzvah of settling the Land and the mitzvah of fighting for the defense of the People and the Land.
Rabbi Kook, founder of Religious Zionism: Anyone who has followed the development of the Jewish community in Eretz Yisrael from its inception can readily see how, from every reversal, a new triumph emerged.
How fortunate we are that we are privileged to be soldiers in the IDF [Israel Defense Forces], which defends the lives of Jews in Israel and throughout the world.
How can we rejoice this Yom Ha'atzmaut , when Israel is in a war against Hamas? Two Religious Zionist sages provide the answer.
This year, I don't need fighter jets to do shows and fly-overs. This year, we can look within and see the bravery and heroism in the heart of each and every one of us.
The way to feel independent on Israel's 76th Independence Day is to free ourselves from dependence on all the extras we thought were givens.
“We say to the Jewish people in the Jewish State: Chazak, chazak venitchazek: You be strong, we will be strong, and let us strengthen one another.”
Bnei David yeshiva, in cooperation with the OU, releases a film of faith and remembrance for Israel's Memorial Day to reflect on the memory of the fallen and faith.
The explanation of two Reb Yaakovs.
When tempted by something forbidden, we lose all reason simply lust after it with all our hearts. We can always control ourselves, but we are not always willing.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi's wisdomand character shine through this story of his reaction to those slandering him.
The Torah lights the path and provides tools to guide man through his life. “You shall be holy because I the Lord, your God, am holy” is essentially the conscience that the Torah supplies to man.
Judaism's defensive measures against moral transgressions are mocked and scorned by the progressives of the current world. Look where that got them.
Keeping Mitzvot between man-and-fellow man means to look both at our fellow man and at ourselves correctly, in ways which are ‘opposite’.
