by Rabbi Moshe Lieber | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Saying Goodbye A Jerusalemite woman took upon herself the task of caring for her ill and elderly father. The father saw the strain this placed on her and begged her to return home. “If you truly have my honor in mind, I beg you to go,” he said....
by Nechama Stampler | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Many years ago in Jerusalem, a young boy approached the great Rabbi, Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, with a question. “Rabbi, he began, “I don’t understand something. At the end of the morning prayers on Shabbos morning, we say ‘Ein Ka-lokainu, there is...
by Dina Cooper | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Of the following list, who is the most enslaved person and who is the most free? “Three years ago I was taken by the KGB and put in a labor camp in Siberia, I am told when to get up, when to go to bed and everything between.” “I was ship-wrecked on a...
by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Our two young daughters were bouncing off the walls. Not figuratively. Literally. Using their mothers’ bed as a trampoline, they were propelling their lithe little bodies from the bed to the adjacent wall and back again. This in itself might have been...
by Rabbi Shlomo Goldberg | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
“Same seats, same seats!” “No! Not the same seats!” “You sat by the window on the way here, I get the window on the way back.” Sound familiar? How about this one: “OK class, please line up now at the door for lunch.”...
