by Rabbi Berel Wein | Aug 24, 2012 | Beginner
The sound of the shofar reverberated in our synagogue this week as the month of Elul began. It signaled the approach of the Days of Awe and its attendant holidays only a few short weeks from now. In previous generations, devoid as they were from today’s...
by Yehuda Mendelson | Aug 17, 2012 | Beginner
On Rosh Hashana, we are judged by God for the coming year; who will live, who will die, our quality of life, our health, if we will have children. Even who will win the lottery. Everything. The Holy One, our Merciful Father, obviously wants us to emerge meritorious...
by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman | Aug 7, 2012 | Beginner
The festival of Chanukah is one of the best loved and most widely observed events in the Jewish calendar. The powerful images of the miracles of the Jewish victory over the Selucid Greeks in the 2nd Century B.C.E. and the miracle of the one-day supply of oil burning...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Mar 23, 2012 | Beginner
As the month of Nissan begins this Shabat the forthcoming joyous holiday of Pesach is already much anticipated. Whether one is going to celebrate it at home or travel to family or participate in a Pesach resort hotel program, it is obvious that Pesach requires...
by Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Mar 2, 2012 | Beginner
When Sir Donald Wolfit, the last of the great English actor/managers, was lying on his death bed, one of his young actors said to him: “Sir Donald, after a life so filled with success and fame, dying must be hard…” To which Sir Donald replied:...
