Authority

"Yesterday, an event took place that had no known precedent in human history: a manned spacecraft approached the moon, orbited it several times, and returned safely to earth. What can we, as Jews, learn from this event?"

Almost every human being is in a position of power and control. From bosses and security agents, to parents, teachers and even to drivers of vehicles, everyone yields some form of power. Power, though, is not there in order to demean others by being rude,...

With all the pomp, politesse and reverence, it would be hard to imagine that across the pond a whole bunch of her subjects want to give her the pink slip...

She was the closest we could get to the paradigm of royalty, the closest we could point to as a textbook case of the “king” we read about in Jewish literature.