Tanya/Shaar Hayichud V’haemunah, Chapter 3, Class 1. Previous classes can be accessed by way of link in the article.
The Jewish way to acheve a fair and just society is based on Judaism's most basic value. Riots do not achieve it, study does.
This week's Ask the Rabbi feature also includes swaying during prayer and why golf is not played on Shabbat.
In light of the rise of recurring corona cases, the issue of postponing our immediate needs and gratifications is resurfacing again.Op-ed
The main avenue of sin is the international body that incorporates 193 nations, The United Nations..
When entering the prayer room, you would hear a continuous sobbing sound.
How cheese plays a role in the Kingdom of David.
Israel's first Cheif Rabbi, Torah luminary and iconic leader of Religious Zionism, on the mitzva that is equal to all the others.
'Step into the misty cloud - for only there is G-d found'
A humble heart and a head held high at one and the same time is the demand the Torah places on our leaders - and us.
With all the uncertainty about implications of the Coronavirus crisis, the courageous voice of Rabbi Rabinovich will be sorely missed.
Ruth's commitment catapults this convert into the center stage of Jewish eternity.
Influential Rabbis in Israel weigh in on whether after the establishment of the State of Israel, Diaspora Jews have the same mission.
Mount Sinai was a humble mountain in a desolate desert. What does G-d's giving the Torah there try to tell us?
There is something special when it comes to customs. Sometimes their effect is stronger than that of mitzvot.
Shavu’ot is like a neglected treasure which nobody appreciates properly, though one day they will. Like Cinderella before the prince.
Rabbi Lord Sacks and Chief Rabbi Mirviis present: A life of vertical & horizontal responsibility: Shavuot during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Applying lessons from Rav Yitzchok Hutner about the Holocaust to Jewish outreach at this time.
Studying Tanya is a way to strenghthen your spiritual health.
Man should have exclusive right to hs own property, but he should also have the opportunity to start afresh.
Penguins are not on the Torah's list of non-kosher birds and don't resemble any of them. Why are they not kosher?
Every Jewish wedding, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, small or large, lavish or simple, is a reminder of the Revelation at Mount Sinai.
Does He not seem to be hiding His face from us when, all of a sudden, in one blow, we have lost so many holy and righteous individuals?
How does the celebration of Torah and the Anniversary of the Sinaitic Covenant relate to King David? An essential question for Shavuot.
Who guards the walls of Jerusalem? And who guarded the Tabernacle?
One of the principles our Sages saw in G-d's modus operandi leads to an unusual interpretation.
'Jerusalem is not just a city. Our whole lives are a yearning for Jerusalem.'
The yearning was there in Europe's ghettos, Middle East casbahs, the hills of Gondar in Ethiopia, even in the concentration camps.
We have an opportunity now to set an example, to show how despite difficulty, we are acting responsibly, for ourselves and our societies.
Why the number 600,000, to Chazal, is the quintessential expression of completeness in all mathematical units, and where it appears again.
There is still so much history ahead of the Jewish people. It is a pity to stand by the wayside and view the miracles as a spectator.
Rabbi Kook, who did not live to see the liberation of Jerusalem, wrote prophetically about the awaited Heralds of Zion and of Jerusalem.
Our obligation to Yerushalayim during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Yom Yerushalayim was at first celebrated nationwide, but sadly, it has become a holiday limited to Religious Zionists.
The Jews are only trustees for God. All the Jews. Even those who have yet to make Aliya, and come to receive their rightful inheritance.
Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook did not rend his clothes on seeing the Kotel, the Western Wall, or viewing the Temple Mount, after the Six Day War.
The faith-based approach is to look reality straight in the eye. And that includes the lockdown.
Some heretics do not deny Creation, instead they deny ongong Divine Providence, and that leads to a contradiction in terms.
At Mount Sinai, Heaven touched the Earth. When we returned to the land of Israel, the Earth reached up to touch the Heavens.
What can we do to turn this ship around, or at least to secure life rafts for ourselves, our families, and others who will join with us?
How can we discern whether our religious intentions are pure?
Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovich, ztz”l was one of the greatest Gedolei HaDor in our generation, worthy of sitting on the Sanhedrin.
The elderly venerable man or woman before you is living testimony to the living God of Israel.
Regarding reality around us as an unrelated series of unconnected random events is a post-modern malady of epic proportions.
Torah from Israel's first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, the iconic leader of Religious Zionism.
The Tochacha in the parsha is not mere rhetoric, it is not a poetic rendering of God’s rebuke; it is real. It is powerfully experienced.
Like food which when digested becomes part of a person, when one delves into Torah it becomes part of him and he becomes a better person.
It is a Hebrew letter that cannot stand alone, and that very property and its meaning symbolizes unty.
There is a fascinating law that shares with us a difference in mindsets, a difference between Shabbat and the sabbatical year.
When you uproot a tree, the deep roots which would not have been recognized otherwise, are revealed.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Even within that which appears to be utterly inanimate matter, such as stones or earth or water, there is a soul and spiritual life-force.
As the second part of the period of Counting the Omer begins, a deeper look at what it means.
The power of Rashbi to see the pure essence of any Jewish soul is probably the main reason that millions of Jews visit his grave every year
The most well known epidemic in Jewish history is the one that killed 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva's students. Almost impossible to imagine.
A modern-day miracle unfolds in Orthodoxy as words from Rav Yitzchak Hutner of Chaim Berlin Yeshiva zts"l evolve to our period in isolation.
Once, living in Israel involved existential and economic danger, so it was not obligatory, but nowadays the mitzvah obligates every Jew.
There is no halakhic significance to lighting bonfires, but there are strong halakhic injunctions to protect the environment.
Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig shares a personal story from his Rabbi who passed away last week - Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch.
