The Daily Portion / Caution: Change in perspective ahead
It's not only the content of our prayers that changes but also the pace with which we pray.
It's not only the content of our prayers that changes but also the pace with which we pray.
Thoughts for the days between Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur.
Here are a few suggestions...
Is it only me or, during these final days of 5783, is there something truly special in the air?
An experience students will take with them for life.
These first days of the school year evoke prayers from the depth of our hearts.
King David, too, experienced numerous troubles throughout his life.
Are you prepared? Are you ready?
There is no reason to build our lives on hatred and to perpetuate any trauma we have suffered.
This Torah portion lists more mitzvot than any other parasha, 77 out of the 613 total mitzvot that are included in the Torah.
Don't think prolem, think opportunity.
We know how she taught her nursery school pupils. What did the murderer's teacher's curriculum contain?
This month is identified with a desire for self-improvement and change. The shofar blown each morning is a wakeup call.
If something is important to you, you know its magnitude.
In which areas of life -- during this blessed time -- has our potential yet to be fulfilled?
We are obligated to add to Jewish identity another pillar: the pillar of Shabbat.
*"See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse. What blessing? What curse?
"A land the Lord your God looks after; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it."
May we merit joyful days, unconditional love for one another, and be inscribed and sealed in the book of life.
What a privilege it is to live in the land of Israel.
0'Be consoled, be consoled, my people', says Isaiah. And Rav Kook said that his message is this generation's mission.
One of the women said she would not forget this conversation for the rest of her life. In truth, I won't forget it either.
There is something special about the Rashbam stopping in the midst of his learning to acknowledge the death of his grandfather.
I imagine that a few tears were shed as hundreds of members of Congress and the Senate rose to their feet and applauded Herzog,
Have we loved someone enough to be able to criticize him?
The road through Beit El was blocked off for the sake of the motorcade, but it was of an entirely different kind those over judicial reform
Make what is primary -- primary, and what is secondary -- secondary.
The Egoz Elite Commando Unit fighter who fell in Jenin was a remarkably kind and caring person. May his memory be blessed.
Korach's sons did not die.
Our home is what has characterized us, more than anything else, for several thousand years.
The talking donkey is one mysterious event out of the many in our world.
If you have something to give, the world is waiting for you to give it, to fulfill your mission.
A birthday celebration is meant to remind you that God believes in you and your talents, that your existence is precious to Him.
Note the warning at the end of the Torah reading.
Not everyone must strive to be number one.
What really was bothering the ten spies?
Four messages from the parasha for graduates.