by Rabbi Berel Wein | Jan 28, 2010 | Beginner
This Shabat is a doubly memorable one. Aside from the holiness of the Shabat day itself the date also is Tu Bshvat, the fifteenth day of Shvat, and the Shabat is called Shabat Shira – the Shabat of song. In the Torah reading we hear the song of Moshe and Israel...
by Tziporah Heller | Dec 10, 2009 | Beginner
The village of Charnovska mirrored the Bible’s description of the world’s beginning. Light and darkness were entwined so completely that no period could be called “day” in comparison to another called “night.” Until this point, the...
by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Sep 7, 2009 | Beginner
September 1 marked 70 years on the Gregorian calendar since the German invasion of Poland that began the Second World War and the destruction of Eastern European Jewry. The war’s outbreak rudely interrupted the plans of millions, including those of a 14-year-old...
by Rabbi David Fohrman | Aug 31, 2009 | Beginner
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Days of Awe, are the time of year when we talk with God. Yes, we are supposed to talk with God all year long, but we really feel it on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. These are days devoted to prayer. They are days when we struggle to...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Apr 3, 2009 | Beginner
Pesach is the holiday of memory and of hope. Memory is really the key to Jewish survival and a meaningful Jewish life. All of the rituals and foods of Pesach, the Seder and all of its customs, are intended to be memory aids. Events that are well over three millennia...
