How quickly society changes acceptable human behavior! What was unthinkable and perverse is today admired and sometimes even enforced.
Every space, every line in the Torah has meaning. Even the number of pesukim between topics can teach us a lesson-that change takes time.
The virus is not going away so quickly. Difficulties in life are Hashem’s messages to us to improve our ways.
Teshuva does not have to be a grandiose act. Sometimes it is a small action that makes a big change.
All of a sudden everybody has come under threat, no ifs, no buts, no exceptions.
Hear some of the key themes of Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur as they relate to the ongoing challenge of the coronavirus pandemic.
Yesterday was the birthday of Chabad. How much influence for good this movement has had and please G-d, will continue to have!
Elul 18 is the birthdate of two giants, the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe. This article is dedicated to their blessed memory.
In principle, there is no impediment for women to engage in any field of Torah.
Torah thoughts by young Religious Zionist Torah scholars Seeing the process of redemption by looking through the lens of faith.(Isaiah 49.)
If we plan how to carry them out, the New Year can see the dreams we have in our hearts come to pass.
Torah from Israel's first Chief Rabbi: The essence of prayer is incremental.
Every fruit, every tree, every flower in Israel is a testament to G-d’s promises.
Rejoicing before God is done intellectually and existentially – through prayer and Torah study.
The Torah stresses ‘the hands’ in the mitzva of Bikkurim, for a symbolic, moral and historic reason.
There is something illogical about the commandment of the firstborn. And why separate the first fruits from the rest?
The Hebrew word "even" means "stone" but it also is a composite of the words for father and son.
This week the Torah teaches us the key ingredient to living our lives and serving G-d, without it, everything else falls apart
Recognizing the righteous and stopping the bullies.
It is a challenge to continue keeping the Torah with the same level of anticipation as at Mount Sinai.
Many think that in order to repent one must look evil, the affair teaches us that the secret of success is actually in looking good.
The lockdown meant that we could listen to the poetry and passion of the prayers. And prayer is about listening, not just speaking.
Philosopher Franz Rosenzweig describing the joyous praying in a hasidic synagogue in Warsaw: “I have never heard such praying.”
The State of Israel is a small object in the universe of nations. But the pressure it exerts influences every part of the globe.
Yesterday was the first official day of school in Israel, while yeshivas began on the 1st of Elul, other schools have yet to begin the year.
It shouldn’t take a pandemic to get us to make sure our parents know our feelings, although it brought out the desire to protect them..
The concept of inter-generational connection and obligation has been lost in the value system of most of the world, but not in a Torah life.
With our entrance into the Land of Israel - and today with our return - we must live with the continuous consciousness of God's goodness.
Learn how the Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Questions asked by congregants on issues in Jewish law, life and lore: An eye for an eye, finding a rabbi, a thought for Elul.
Does Rav Kook's fundamental essay apply to today's generation as well?
Young Religious Zionist Torah scholars present thought on the Land of Israel: 'The question is not the same in Israel and outside it.'
The Tractate Kidushin begins with ownership of objects - hardly the definition of a wife!
Instead of the battle for the basics in the throes of a pandemic, let us aspire to more. The Hebrew name for the coming year tells us to.
For people who don’t like the way the Redemption has been playing out over the last few generations, here is a suggestion: Read the Rambam.
Our Sages found a pattern in the commandments found in one reading that make up over 12% of all the 613 mitzvot in the Torah.
The simple and obvious things we must be sure to do can easily be forgotten or ignored. The Torah reminds us of them.
Torah from Israel's first chief rabbi, the iconic leader of Religious Zionism.
Watch: This week Yitzi and Tuvia talk about the precept of Hashavat Aveida - returning lost objects
The sages teach us that a rebellious son is condemned because of how he will turn out. But how is it possible to know he will be evil?
Only one fruit's blessing goes up a step on the ladder when it is made into juice. What does that have to do with marriage?
There are so many soldiers in Tzahal for whom fear of the enemy does not exist because in their hearts is the fear of Hashem.
Why do we see that in the case of Ishmael, Abraham did not act as the Torah prescribes for a rebellious son?
This week we read the commandment to remember Amalek. We remember Amalek because that is the memory that safeguards us.
Part of the reason for improper human behavior violating Jewish values, is the shortness of vision that our limited years impose upon us.
A seemingly minor law about inheritance is in fact a major statement of Jewish values.
In which war are we engaged all our lives?
The rebellious son does not adhere to the positive or negative mitzvas. What is driving him?
Just how basic is 'hakarat hatov,' refraining from being an ingrate, in Judaism - and why?
Learn how the Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
There is a feeling in the air that we must value every hour of study, treasure each moment.
What we think of as regular, sometimes is extraordinary and what we see as extraordinary is often really regular.
We Jews have speicific instructions on what to do with our lives, how to do it, and where to do it.
No one should be invisible, no one should live and die alone.
Our Sages characterized it best by saying that a student’s eyes should see his teacher not only when he is teaching but throughout life.
My book The Jewish Tradition is the result of deep pain at Jews distanced from their heritage, but also out of a strong sense of unity.
Short topics in Judaism: Wandering Jew, Pirkei Avot, Elul
It is as if Rav Kook is with us today when we read his words of comfort and his call to praise one another, to raise our spirits.
Young Religious Zionist Torah scholars present thoughts on the Land of Israel: 'Every Jew has a potion of Eretz Yisrael rooted in his soul.'
