How Israel's first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi helped illegal immigrants helped by a Jewish British policemen.
Perhaps Elul should signal a new direction for us to take, especially for this coming year.
If the UAE peace holds, the rich will get richer, and roads will be clogged with Porsches and Cadillacs. So, what’s so bad?
Vital parts of Torah and Jewish life are Jewish policemen, judges, kings, priestly tithes, cities of refuge, prophecy, an army - in Israel.
Our parsha has the Mitzvah of inaugurating a king. The king himself is required to write a Sefer Torah once he sits on his throne.
King David's Torah study influenced his advice to the people. That is why he arose to learn at midnight.
Do we say we are still in exile if everything is not perfect in Israel, or as religious Zionism does, show gratitude for what we do have.
"The month of Elul is a month of accounting, both materially and spiritually. "
The Torah is in favor of law and order and of choosing leaders who can do the job.
What for the Prophets was a dazzling vision of a distant future was, for the Sages, a practical programme.
Beginning Friday, we will say Psalm 27 each day until Hoshana Rabba. This year it will have special meaning.
The responsibility this year is given over to us. Where and under what conditions are we planning to pray on the High Holy Days?
When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time - Maya Angelou.
Learn how the Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Self-control is a basic tenet of Judaism and a prescription for a worhwhile life.
In Torah language, the king is not someone who seized power or won an election and rules, but the one most capable of ruling.
The Jewish people are commanded in the Torah to build the Beit Hamikdash, not to strengthen the Dome of the Rock.
The hero whose mission was so sensitive that his photo is kept secret 14 years after his death, had important things to say about life.
The message behind a famous story, ethics vs. morals and a word about the month of Elul on our doorstep.
The National-Religious public must create an inexpensive educational framework to enrich children’s Torah world outside school hours.
Psalm 20 explained by Israel's first Chief Rabbi and iconic leader of Religious Zionism: Why call out to Jacob's God in times of distress?
He went to the gas chambers with the orphanage children he loved. Some of his wise sayings are brought here in his memory.
The text in the Torah portion of Re’Eh begins with words that in their striking difference teaches us much of our journey in this world
The valley where the brothers sold Joseph was to be the valley where HItler's henchmen built a death camp. It was not to be.
A verse that tells us what to do, if, for some technical or practical reason, like distancing, those who are needy can’t get to our homes.
This week we learn about the mitzvah to give tzedakah & the classic example is giving a loan & taking a collateral in return. Why is that?
Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress. How the Lubavitcher Rebbe set her on her way.
Judaism teaches that we have free will, but there are scientists and philosophers who disagree. Is it possible to bridge the gap?
The true challenge of our times is living with prosperity in a society where everything is abundantly available. "The Daily Portion."
Young Religious Zionist Torah scholars present thoughts on the Land of Israel from the weekly Torah reading: Border towns' special rights.
Moses states a proposition that is the most fundamental one in Dvarim and one that would be echoed endlessly by Israel’s Prophets:
How long do we have to wait from meat to milk? And how long are we allowed to wait to make aliya?
One does not have to be famous to leave your imprint on this earth.
At Mount Sinai, we were given a chance to reacquire the spiritual sense of sight, lost in Eden, that enables us to see the internal reality:
Torah reading: Re'eh: How is it that the principle of determinism and the principle of free will are both part of Judaism?
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Happiness is not always the result of our own acomplishments.
Achieving the proper attitude towards material things is a necessary condition for spiritual elevation.
There is one magical Jewish term that is a substitute for everything else in Judaism - at least to the Seth Rogens among us.
The coronavirus has affected our mood. We have to admit that most of us are less happy and more worried than usual.
Sharing God’s bounty, yearning for Israel, the spiritual goal of Jerusalem, a need to appreciate what we have - and a blessing for today.
Ask yeshiva bochurim the most critical point of their learning and the answer will be to chazer, to chazer – to review, to review.
How did Rav Steinsaltz manage to accomplish so much? The Daily Portion.
Although there are malicious journalists, the public prefers that to a media devoid of criticism. Eight rules of morality for a journalist.
Let us be proud of who we are and Who made us what we are - He who fulfills His promises to bless our land.
It is in the nature of man, to think that by his strength and acumen, he has prospered - but that is hubris.
Torah from Israel's first Chief Rabbi, the iconic leader of Religious Zionism. On thaniking God for food for the body and for the soul.
The Weekly Portion, Eikev: Rabbanit Yemima Mizrahi explains that it's not by chance that we read this parasha this year during the pandemic.
The first paragraph of the Shema is in the singular. The second paragraph is in the plural, The order of the mitzvot is switched. Why?
Human civilization needs a little less hubris, less arrogance, more minimal expectations, realization that it is not our will that prevails.
We know the Mann was a Heavenly food with heavenly taste but this week Moshe Rabeinu describes the Mann as torture and even starvation. Why?
The generation in the desert did not achieve the spiritual greatness which would allow working the land without losing spirituality.
The Daily Portion: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz on this week's Torah reading.
Sorry guys, the commandments of the Torah were given to be performed in the Land of Israel.
Eikev 5780: What is the covenant, and what is the love that is distinct from the covenant?
The transformation elicited by the mitzvot does not occur overnight.
A few words from Rav Yoni Lavi concerning an insufficiently publicized sector: single men or bachelors. Sivan Rahav-Meir's The Daily Portion
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Better to be a refugee in the Jewish State, than a prince in the Midbar Ha'amim (Desert of the Nations). Be Jew-woke and move to Israel!
