Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
I first met the family some seven years ago, when I was called to perform a bris on their newborn son.
There are no one-way streets in our world. There is no one who gives without receiving, and there is no one who receives without providing something back in return.
So it is with the child. Just as the adult gives the child the knowledge and wisdom of life, so the child provides the adult the keys to living it...
Nowadays, there is really no reason why a person would prevent himself from becoming ritually impure. An exception is the male kohen, descendant of Aaron, brother of Moses.
The prevalence of suicide in our society has been gradually rising. What is Judaism's perspective on this urgent and oft-times taboo topic.
What drives these parents to have large families? A love for kids? Determination to rebuild post-Holocaust? Some innate affection for Honda and
Toyota minivans?
If someone was unable to participate in the Passover offering at
the proper time, they would offer the sacrifice a month later.
As the procession approached the location for the chupah they were encountered by a solitary Jew in a wagon, a stranger that no one recognized....
The maturity and confidence of an adult psyche can be gauged by its ability to face criticism. Yet, criticism may not be the best method for cultivating this maturity in the child.
Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it
– Psalms 34:15
Matzah Depleted
(1313 BCE)
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Jews Expelled from Ukraine
(1727)
A few months prior to her death, Empress Catherine I, the second wife of Peter the Great, expelled... Read More »
Riots in Rostov-on-Don
(1883)
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