No matter what, we remain a nation, G-d's nation. Let us celebrate that! Poem.
Children are new creations brought into this world and the Exodus occurred for each one.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
It is a Torah-based mitzvah to celebrate days of salvation when Israel is saved from death,and so it is with Yom Ha'atzmaut .
An email advertisement is the shock that motivated the writer to ask readers to think again about what they are being enticed to do.Op-ed.
What shames you most: The story of the 4 lepers in our own lives.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: True morality cannot sanction a mechanical Temple service, disconnected from the people and their lives
Why must only the slanderer be afflicted with tsaraat nd dwell alone outside the camp?
A selected offering of the writings of various well known Torah commentators on the parasha.
There is something deep going on this month, something that touches on the character of the Jewish people and our relationship with God.
What is the significance of this connection?
Why does the Torah mention the commandment of circumcision only incidentally? Why not expand more on it, if it's so important?
Israel was created only 3 years after six million innocent Jews were brutally murdered. Let that memory bring us together.
How do we lead a life so as to be worthy of the freedom we have been given?
Young Israeli Torah scholars in Religious Zionist yeshivas: Why do the laws of tzara’at of houses apply exclusively in Eretz Yisrael?
The Cohen went out towards the person in need of help, even if that person was hesitant. That is still our responsiblity to society.
The headline alone must send shivers down some people’s spines.
Is the Torah really silent about today’s most sought-after personal financial goal?
First in a series about the rise of Jewish and Torah education in America after the Holocaust.
Since the Holocaust, the feeling is that no matter how hard people try; no matter how moral they want to be, in the end the monster wins.
The leadership role is not without fear and to be our own hero is no less significant than being someone else’s hero.
There are voices on both sides of the debate.
Being clear of sin is the goal for both the guf and neshamah in anticipation of the final resurrection.
The Zohar says the Spies were afraid that they would lose their positions of authority in Eretz Yisrael. Nothing has changed.
How did this tiny, persecuted dispersed people survive and come home after two thousand years? How did they survive at all? Op-ed.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: Strange gods “within you”? The Sages taught that this refers to evil impulses, particularly uncontrolled anger:
Do you have standards? Do you challenge yurself? How do you know if you are alive?
From Shvi'i shel Pesach to Yom Ha'atzmaut to Shavuot, there is a theme for us to emulate as we leave the Pesach season: Nachshon's faith.
Young religious Zionist scholars on the Holy Land in the parasha and in our prayers.
Dvar Torah for Parashat Shemini: This week the Chief Rabbi explains the hidden depth of numbers in Jewish teaching.
Ask the Rabbi about Jewish suffering, why we are called a kingdom of priests, the 8th day of the week, keeping kosher - all in the parasha.
How the eighth day of the Mishkan is like the day after Creation.
Hashem has His sometimes hidden ways to vanquish His enemies and exact revenge upon them.
Moshiach? Seriously? Just a quick read of the newspapers seems to suggest that the promise of Isaiah is only getting farther away.
Shemini - Moving past the first impression––The halo effect at work
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
It is easier to take the Jews out of slavery than to take slavery out of the Israeli mindset.
The miracles accompanying the founding of the Jewish State have parallels in the story of the Jews in Egypt. Filmed in 1955, apt today.
What to do about the discovery that the elected leadership is stymied by leftist control of the scientific and economic establishment.
Young Israeli Religious Zionist Torah scholars explore the connection betrween Pesach and Eretz Yisrael.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: David’s harp symbolizes the soul’s encounter with God. But there are four different levels of song it played.
Read Rabbi Harold Kanotopsky, Rabbi J.B. Soloveutchik zt"l and,Rabbi B. Wein, Rabbi Y. Rimon and others for Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach.
The historical and psychological meaning of Ezekiel's Vision
“Right” and “left” symbolize, respectively, God’s traits of kindness and strict justice.
Nadav and Avihu: The elites often permit themselves moral laxity but the Torah grants no such indulgences.
The message of the Exodus as seen by Torah commentators from the Riva to the Slonimer Rebbe.
Next year in Jerusalem is not “only a song,” it was the dream, hope and prayer of Jews for 2000 years and fulfilled in our time.
The simpleton speaks the truth, but it is a sad truth.
Is this the most terrible thing the Egyptians did? Why does the HaHagaddah bring this Pasuk to explain the "torture" we went through?
Jerusalem is not just a place of happiness, it’s a place of elation.
The Exodus narrative is a love story between the Jewish People and God. Insights on the spiritual meaning of Passover.
A shortened version of the Haggadah for medical professionals on a call or the dangerously ill only.
The Seder has fascinated commentators and everyday Jews for centuries. These two questions and their answers are an enlightening approach.
What is behind the blood libels? Are there four sons? Does the afikoman have special powers? And more.
The cognoscenti will realize that we are reliving history..
A Tale of Two Cities: Kobe and Barditchov.
The fourth son brings an important message that guides our lives.
It is a Chabad tradition to say the psalm whose number is the years since the Rebbe's birth on NIssan 11, so chap.122 is said tonight.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: By examining the Olah service, we can gain insight into the prophetic experience.
