Human Being, The

Yom Kippur is the day that our animal, emotional, intellectual and spiritual selves are linked to form a harmonious one

Should any physical contact that is friendly be considered intimate? Hopefully, it should.

The EMTs told employees at the eatery to call 911 and then left when they were asked to help. The woman was eventually taken to a hospital, where she died a short time later...

Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik's "The Lonely Man of Faith", and the famous chapter 32 of the Tanya of Rabbi Shcneur Zalman of Liadi. To state the contrast is not to formulate an opposition; simply to open another gate...

Isn’t marriage between man and woman a violation of the laws of kilayim, which prohibit the intermixing of divergent species?

How can we truly love another? Isn’t that a logical impossibility?

Thirty two articles and stories on love: filial love, romantic love, friendship, love of self, love of G-d -- so different from each other, yet somehow all the same

A famous talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe analyzes the lives of Noah, Abraham and Moses as milestones in humanity’s journey from an instinctive selfhood to a true concept of “love” for one’s fellow. We also encounter the basis of the Rebbe’s groundbreaking a...

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the essence of Jewish mysticism

Living with ALS, there were countless times that I had to be saved on Shabbat.