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I always feel very emotional saying farewell to the sukkah at the end of the festival. For a week, we have been sheltered in G-d’s embrace,...
For those who believe in the terrible finality of death, once someone has left physical life behind, it’s dead and buried and the proverbial nail in...
“May my words fall like rain, may my speech flow like dew.” So goes the introduction to Moshe’s famous speech using evocative imagery. As he speaks...
Today [Rosh Hashanah] is the birthday of the world. Everything we know came into being on this day except the creator of all things. Why did...
The month of Elul is a time of repentance in preparation for the high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The word elul means search,...
Kicking people out of one’s seat in shul, and being kicked out of someone else’s seat, as unpleasant as both interactions are, seem to be a...
A husband turns to his wife after leaving a party, and asks if she noticed an acquaintance of theirs. His wife asks, “Are you referring to...
Exegetical license is a powerful tool in the hands of rabbis. (In simpler English, it’s the right to stray from the literal meaning of scripture in...
Who is more important, the Jew or the Jewish people? In last week’s parsha, we read the first chapter of the Shema. This week, we read the...
The ten commandments are perhaps the most famous part of the Torah. They appear first in the book of Shemos/Exodus, and they are repeated in this...