Stories

The street corner was busy. Too busy. There was certainly no place for G‑d in this scene.

In a village, there lived a mother and a son who were incredibly devoted to one another. Once they had been well off and had many friends. But now they were poor. The father had died suddenly, when lightning struck their house leaving the mother ...

A king once had a prized jewel, the crown jewel in his magnificent diadem. But one morning, to his dismay, he discovered a single thin crack descending down its face.

Severe Siberian cold waves swept across the remote forest region with a vengeance as the bitter temperature plummeted further. It was week two of his treacherous trek...

With birth, the die is cast. Existence has been set into motion, and so too it will come to a close. We should not despair. The tragedy doesn’t lie in this end. The tragedy exists only if we fail to live...

You now possess three-quarters of a billion dollars. You make yourself a cup of coffee, and you sit at your kitchen table, thinking about the money. How does it change your plans? How does it change who you are?

My next guest is known throughout the world as the Holy Sabbath. He’s written a new book called Shabbat: Make My Day, and I’m very pleased that it brings Shabbat back to our show...

Reb Yisrael of Vizhnitz was in the habit of strolling with his attendant for half an hour every evening. On one such occasion they reached the house of a certain bank manager who was a maskil, a follower of the “Enlightenment” movement—in a word, ...

For the hundred Jews or so, the only recognition of the holiday of Chanukah was this one small electric menorah...

I think about this often as I work at my projects. Do you think, if I make an effort to keep the back neat and tidy, snipping away the loose ends, my life will be tidier? Or appear tidier to me? Just a thought...