by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
On a beautiful clear night in 1924 at Landsberg am Lech, where he was imprisoned by the Bavarian government, Adolf Hitler remarked to Rudolf Hess: You know, it’s only the moon I hate…For it is something dead and terrible and inhuman…It is as if there...
by Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Shavuot is the holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai. (You know-God, Charlton Heston, the Ten Commandments, the whole bit.) The Torah (also known as the Five Books of Moses or the Bible) is the basic source of Judaism....
by Rabbi Yonason Goldson | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
“You impetuous people,” the apostate said to the sage Rava. “You put your mouths before your ears!” Our mouths before our ears? The apostate was referring to “Na’aseh v’nishmah,” the famous phrase uttered by the Jewish...
by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Shavuot is the festival of the giving of the Torah. For many people that means that Moses came down from Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments inscribed in stone. But what does that mean? That the Torah consists of those ten laws and nothing else? Some people...
by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
In every end, there is a beginning. Each level of reality contains within it yet another level, hitherto unperceived. That idea is reflected in the re-commencement of the Torah readings from Genesis each year at this time, right after Sukkot, on Simchat Torah. We...
