Nissen Mangel

“Don’t sign anything. Don’t allow the doctor to abort the child. Tell him you insist he do everything possible to save the baby and the mother.”

Rabbi Nissen Mangel was a 10-year-old child when he came to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. There he witnessed unspeakable atrocities, but he also witnessed amazing acts of faith. In this moving and powerful talk, Rabbi Mangel tells his firsthand...

This brief biography brings to light many little-known facts about Maimonides, twelfth-century philosopher and physician.

Tehillim is recited by Jewish people collectively and individually, as the desire occurs to offer praise and thanksgiving to G-d; or alternatively, in times of crisis and need, as a form of supplication, and even as a venue to express regret for sin.