Before Rosh HaShanah, there is a universal quest to ask Hashem for a better year. Better parnasa/livelihood, better nachas, better gezundt, better shalom bais/marital harmony. Better, better, better. Hashem responds,...
Recently, I gave a shiur on sholom bayis-marital harmony. A day later, I asked one of my friends who attended with his wife if he thought it was helpful. He...
When preparing ourselves for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, many people concentrate upon character refinement. They might work hard to improve their anger control, they struggle mightily to stamp-out forbidden...
It’s hard to believe, but it’s nearly that time of the year again. The month of Elul. As we try to squeeze the last drops of juice from our vacations and...
As Jews, we are taught that when we need something we should pray to Hashem for His assistance. But, what do we do when we have prayed hard and it...
I want to share with my dear readers a sobering true story that warns us about one of the more base sides of the human psyche. There was a man who...
In his monumental work about midos (character traits), the Orchos Tzadikim, declares that love has the greatest potential to wreak havoc in a person’s life, more than any other midah....
The Torah dictates to us that a Kohein must maintain a higher level of kedusha, holiness. As it says, “Lo yitama b’amav,” he should not become contaminated to the dead...
The Torah proclaims,“Al kein yomru hamoshlim,bo’u cheshbon.” The Gemora in Bava Basra interprets this verse homiletically as follows. “Hamoshlim, eIlu hamoshlim b’yitzram – Rulers refers to those who rule...
