Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
This new situation has made me think more of my mortality and to appreciate life, but reading the stories of health-care professionals and hearing about all the death and suffering is taking a toll...
Sometimes you just can’t. When all desire is gone, there is no life, nothing left to propel you forward.
Yet, miraculously, even then you do what needs to be done. Not through your own power, but with the power of the One above, the One who made you and stood you on your feet so that you would do good in His world.
Maamar Rani V’Simchi 5727.
More than Passover and more than Lag BaOmer, I wondered about Shavuot weeks in advance.
Does it really matter when I light Shabbat candles? So what if I light them a
bit later than sundown, like say when we sit down to dinner?
As some synagogues are
slowly reopening, let’s take a look
at this staple of Jewish life.
Tractate Sotah, which is customarily studied between Passover and Shavuos, discusses the laws concerning a woman who is suspected of infidelity by her husband.
“When I was a young man of twenty,” the Baal Shem Tov began his story, “shortly after being accepted in the society of hidden tzaddikim, several of us came to the city of Brody . . .”
Universal and deeply personal, ‘michtavim klaliim’ set the tone for the upcoming holiday
Although a fire descended from heaven upon the Altar, it is a mitzvah to add to it a humanly produced fire
– Talmud, Eruvin 63a
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