Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
People do not grow from arguments, or from philosophy. People grow by doing.
First do, then learn about what you are already doing.
Introduce a new habit into your life, and your entire perspective of the world changes.
“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
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.
More than Passover and more than Lag BaOmer, I wondered about Shavuot weeks in advance.
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...
He who lifts his hand against his fellow, even if he did not strike him, is called wicked
– Talmud, Sanhedrin 58b
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