The families choosing Givat Hashalvah are beginning to share something they have been looking forward to: time together. During Chol Hamoed Sukkos, hundreds gathered in the development’s sukkah in Givat Ze’ev for a Simchas Beis Hashoeva with Yishai Ribo. With…
By Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l Translated by Rabbi Yair Hoffman [Shavuos is when we received the Torah, the greatest thing that ever happened to Klal Yisroel. The worst thing that can happen to us, therefore, is a diminishment of…
This week’s Torah portion is Vayera: Genesis 18:1 — 22:24 Every rabbi’s child knows the sound of a car pulling out of the driveway. Twice in this week’s parshah, someone asks ayeh, meaning “where.” The first time, three strangers have just eaten at…
Abraham sits at the entrance of his tent, God appears and then, Abraham is compelled to look up. Three strangers approach, supposedly angels of God. Abraham runs towards them. However, later in the story, when Abraham is about to take…
The parsha begins on a hot, lazy afternoon in Mamre, which if you want to locate it on a map, is roughly the fifth oak tree south of Hebron in Canaan. Abraham looks up and finds three men standing outside…
Reviewing: “Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe,” by Dr. Erica Brown. Maggid Books and OU Press. 2012. Hardcover: 159 pages. ISBN-10: 1592643639, ISBN-13: 978-1592643639. That’s a harder bar than “sorry,” and it’s also a promise. She reads Rabbeinu Yona in “Shaarei Teshuva…
And how this ritual ‘casting off of sins’ has evolved. By Rabbi Danielle Upbin It is one thing to sit in synagogue and enumerate our sins, privately or through the elaborate liturgy of the Days of Awe. It is another…
By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel in Chula Vista, California Yet history is consistently blind to arithmetic. Israel has never been an empire of vast numbers; it is a story of outsized impact. Greatness isn’t a census headcount; it’s moral…
Some members of the Jewish Residents Council helped decorate the sukkah at Ann’s Choice in Bucks County earlier this month. (Courtesy of Barbara Steiner) The post A Sukkah at Ann’s Choice appeared first on Philadelphia Jewish Exponent. A Sukkah at…
A massive and inspiring gathering was held at the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim to commemorate the 15th yahrtzeit of its legendary Rosh Yeshiva, Hagaon Harav Nosson Tzvi Finkel zt”l, with dozens of siyumim on Shas Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi. The…
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