by Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
“But Rabbi, even if I can read some of the prayers, I still don’t understand what I’m saying… To tell you the truth, I’d rather take a quiet reflective walk in the park this year than spend all that time in synagogue saying a bunch of...
by Yaffa Eliach | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
In Bergen Belsen, on the eve of Chanukah, a selection took place. Early in the morning, three German commandants meticulously dressed in their festive black uniforms and – in visibly high spirits – entered the men’s barracks. They ordered the men to...
by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Chemical analysis of human tears seems to bear out something we all innately feel: emotional pain and physical pain occupy different universes. The tears our eyes produce when they are irritated, or when the bodies we carry through life are hurting, have different...
by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Every mitzvah has its measure. The quantity of matzoh that should be eaten; the size of the sukkah; the squareness of tefilin. The lighting of the Chanukah candles also has its measure, regulated by the same rabbinical tradition that created the mitzvah itself in the...
by Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Well, it’s that time of year again. The holiday season. That is, unless you’re Jewish. Then it’s only Chanukah. We already had our holiday season in the fall. You remember, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, Simchas Torah. Now all we have is Chanukah....
