Self & Fellow

Yes, it's true that life is a classroom, but not always must you be the student!

There are houses made of bricks, and houses built of effort and accomplishment. One can “build” up a friend to be a solid edifice of G‑d-centered living, or build a network that develops into an oasis of spirituality.

Don’t think that quarreling with a friend is OK. Ultimately, it will escalate . . .

Marriage in Jewish thought is not two people working together towards the same cause; it is the merging of two beings into one.

Even if we feel it necessary to take another person to court, ensure it remains a “case” and does not descend into a “quarrel.”

Judaism’s perspective and insight into the profound meaning, beauty, romance and mystery of marriage can be discovered by exploring the meaning behind the seemingly technical details of the law.

Every verse in the Torah is meant to be understood on many levels. When we look deeper into this verse, we can learn lessons that apply to all of us, even to someone who doesn’t own a house.

Popular culture portrays the single life is as one long party, while those condemned to domesticity supposedly arrive home to a daily drudgery enlivened only by the occasional fight. High-profile divorce cases, mothers-in-law, and a growing communal accep...

s it true that the Torah requires rape victims to marry their rapists, and the only punishment to the rapist is a fifty-shekel fine paid to the victim’s father?

When the body is facing death you use the tourniquet; otherwise it does more damage than good