by Rabbi Berel Wein | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
I wish to share with you a beautiful short story about the wonderful festival of Sukkot. The story was authored by S.Y. Agnon, the Israeli Nobel laureate who won the prize for literature a number of years ago, and whose likeness adorns the 50-shekel note in Israeli...
by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Some years ago, a friend of mine was going through a crisis. His small business was failing, debts were piling up, and the tax men were breathing down his neck. It was not his first financial setback, either, and things were looking very bleak. He remembered a turning...
by Ezra Cohen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
The Torah commands us to count the days between the festivals of Passover and Shavuot. This period is called Sefirat HaOmer, or counting the omer, and it refers to the counting of the seven weeks from the second night of Passover until the day before Shavuot. What is...
by Malky Feig | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
It looked exactly the same as it had back then. But the thrill was gone, vanished together with the challenge. It was a navy, hard plastic square case, snapped shut for easy portability, marked with raised white lettering underlined by a double line for emphasis....
by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
The conversation – a real one – took place a number of years ago on the outskirts of a non-religious kibbutz in the Galil, on a hill overlooking a lush valley. The teen-aged cousins, one born and bred on the kibbutz, the other an American newcomer to the...
