Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
The natural tendency is to treat matters of the spirit as luxury items—sort of an appendage to life.
Eating, sleeping, making money—these things are given priority and the time dedicated to them is sacrosanct.
But prayer, meditation and study fit in only when you feel like it, and are pushed aside on the slightest...
Here are our tips for a Shavuot that is both delightful to the soul and pleasant for the person.
Unlike the Written Torah, when studying the Oral Torah, a person has not fulfilled his obligation of Torah study unless he understands what is being learnt. Nevertheless, exceptions are made for...
Universal and deeply personal, ‘michtavim klaliim’ set the tone for the upcoming holiday
As I prepared to celebrate the
holiday in quarantine, I knew that I would have to seek inspiration in order to
find meaning and pleasure in this lonely, unusual Shavuot.
Tips on how to read the Ten Commandments at home, inspiration for the holiday, family party packet
"For man is a tree of the field" (Deuteronomy 20:19) -- our roots are our faith and commitment, our trunk and branches are our learning and character, and our deeds are our fruits
– The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Moses Transcribes (first part of) Torah
(1313 BCE)
On Sivan 4 of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE)--two days before the revelation at Mount... Read More »
Forced Conversion in Clermont
(576)
A mob, accompanied by the bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, France, razed the local synagogue to the... Read More »
Jews Returned to Spain
(1481)
Pope Sixtus IV instructed his local bishops that all Jews who had fled the Spanish Inquisition (see... Read More »
Chmielnitzki Massacres
(1648)
The Cossack rebellion against Polish rule in Ukraine, under the leadership of Bogdan Chmielnitzki... Read More »
Tomorrow is the forty-ninth -- and last -- day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the... Read More »
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