Jewish history is repetitive: The last words of Jacob and Joseph
The message: Chazak Chazak Venitchazek, to be strong and to strengthen ourselves and others for the tasks that always lie ahead.
The message: Chazak Chazak Venitchazek, to be strong and to strengthen ourselves and others for the tasks that always lie ahead.
The Jewish people have survived only based on dreams. Our people to the land of Israel in our time is perhaps the greatest of dreams.
The rabbis subsumed several tragic events that occurred in Tevet and memorialized them on the date the siege of Jerusalem began.
We don't say the Hallel prayer on Purim at all, but we do say it on Hanukkah. In our time, the reason for this difference is clearer.
It was the Soviet Union and Communism that saw people as being mere cogs in a great machine, the state. Not so the Jews.
Commentators give several reasons for this to have happened, as it has throughout history, but perhaps the simplest explanation is the best.
I look in wonder at the growth of Orthodox Jewry in my lifetime, not only in terms of intensity of Jewish life, but numbers and population.
Young people willing to undertake to build homes that will be loyal to tradition and Jewish values, is itself most joyful, Zoom and all.
"One language and the same few words.” It reflects the inability to tolerate other opinions and different words. Cancel culture?
There are good things that resulted from our praying outside, things we should try to retain and that contrast Abraham with Adam and Noah.
Without the Oral Law's detailed descriptions, we would not be able to build the more open sukkas we need this year.
Yom Kippur is a gift from God to the people of Israel, an exclusively Jewish concept and holiday. This year we approach it with humility.
We pass before the heavenly court as soldiers in the army of King David. but also are like the sheep that exist around Mount Meron
How quickly society changes acceptable human behavior! What was unthinkable and perverse is today admired and sometimes even enforced.
Part of the reason for improper human behavior violating Jewish values, is the shortness of vision that our limited years impose upon us.
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.
The Torah is in favor of law and order and of choosing leaders who can do the job.
Human civilization needs a little less hubris, less arrogance, more minimal expectations, realization that it is not our will that prevails.
I am not really clear as to what they are demonstrating for. I completely understand what they are demonstrating against. Op-ed
The elders of Israel, the leaders of the tribes were taught directly by Moshe the entire Oral Law as received by him at Mount Sinai. Why?
When the situation demands it, the gentle priest becomes a man of war, who can and must take decisive and even violent action.
I do not believe what the experts are telling me because what they told me years ago never occurred. I am old enough to remember. Opinion.
For much of Jewish history, the Jews were absent from the Land of Israel. Because of this, it became an imagined place of perfection.
The uncertainty of the future that is descending upon us can make us anxious but we have to live with the fact that the world has changed.
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.
Included in the tragedy of the deaths of the 2 older sons of Aaron is the response of the two younger sons who have to rise to the occasion