Parshah Columnists

Guest Columnists
"Listen to Her Voice" Be spiritual. Listen to Sarah. Listen to your body. Use it. Use your animalistic drives and earthly achievements for G-dly missions. That’s exactly what G-d wants from you. By Chany Vaknin 8 Comments		Mr. Self-Sacrifice Sometimes self-sacrifice is not as selfless as it's cracked up to be. Whether the perceived gain is eternal bliss or political propaganda, a famous death can look better than an obscure life... By Boruch Cohen 7 Comments
A Very Strange Commandment "Taking a human life is an absolute no-no. How could Abraham have been willing to kill his own son in cold blood? So what if G-d commanded him--that's no excuse!" By Yaakov Paley 34 Comments		Chana's Prayer Could we be pregnant with our barrenness? What brings us to gestate barrenness? Does barrenness give birth to something, does it abort? What part of us is it really, and how do we nurture it and why? By Chava Binder 5 Comments
Weekly Sermonette
The Boy or the Bottle? Just because the bottle may be empty don’t throw away the child By Yossy Goldman 3 Comments
Life's Passages
Hannah: The Woman Who Corrected the High Priest An in-depth look at Chanah Chanah the prophetess revealed many of the basic laws of prayer and the inner dimension of prayer. She also taught us how to relate to our Creator from an entirely feminine perspective. To view G‑d not only as our king and sovereign, but also as a parent . . . By Chana Weisberg 27 Comments
Parshah Messages
Committing our Future The Torah readings for both days of the holiday, as well as both Haftorahs, share the same theme -- children: the great blessing of having children, the importance of educating them properly, and our commitment to their welfare. By Naftali Silberberg 4 Comments
What the Rebbe Taught Me
Changing G-d's Mind It was precisely the inconceivably audacious nature of Hannah’s prayer that placed it at the center of the Jewish definition of prayer. By Mendel Kalmenson 13 Comments
The Freeman Files
The Ultimate Test of Abraham What was so great about the binding of Isaac? Why does an all-knowing G-d need to test anybody? Shouldn't He know what is in our hearts? And why is Abraham's test of faith "the entire glory of Israel and their merit before their Father in Heaven"? By Tzvi Freeman 28 Comments
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Sacrifice Your Son? a conversation Skeptic: Now if that's not the epitome of everything wrong with religion... Believer: Aren't you leaving out a very important part of the story? By Yanki Tauber 53 Comments
Beyond Speech
On the Haftarah: The Power of Chana’s Prayer For the first day of Rosh Hashana, from the teachings of the Rebbe By Yitzi Hurwitz 5 Comments		On the Haftarah: Rachel's Sacrifice For the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah, from the teachings of the Rebbe G-d loves us so much, and he will have compassion and redeem us. By Yitzi Hurwitz 1 Comment