06 Sep IT’S TIME TO REPENT – PART TWO
What is the significance of having forty days, from Rosh Chodesh Elul to Yom Kippur, in which to repent? It is written down in the Tezel Koton that if someone wishes...
30 Aug IT’S TIME TO REPENT – PART ONE
The concept of time is of utmost importance to Klal Yisroel. Rav Soloveitchik explains how we can see this from the very first mitzvah that Hashem commanded the B’nei Yisroel....
24 Aug THE ART OF BEING A CARETAKER PART 4
One of the big responsibilities of a successful caretaker is the proper nutrition. Often the disease or the treatments or both affect a person’s appetite. It is oh so important...
17 Aug THE ART OF BEING A CARETAKER PART 3
The mental health of the patient is also strengthened by obtaining for them blessings from a Gadol, and informing them that people are praying for them by the Kosel and...
09 Aug THE ART OF BEING A CARETAKER PART 2
In the mishebeirach we say by the Torah for one who is ill, we ask Hashem that they should be granted a refuas hanefesh and a refuas haguf, a healing...
02 Aug ON THE ART OF BEING A CARETAKER – PART ONE
The role of a caretaker is certainly not one that we ask for. Surely, it is a very daunting and challenging responsibility. At the same time it is a sublime...
26 Jul WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY LEARNING
Recently, I was invited by my friends, Michael and Suri Kest, to do a speaking circuit in Los Angeles, California. One of the places I lectured was in the Yeshiva...
19 Jul THE THREE WEEKS AND A MESSAGE OF PEACE
We are now at the beginning of the period called Bein Hametzarim, known more commonly as the Three Weeks. As a nation, we mourn the destruction of our two holy...
13 Jul CHILLUL HASHEM ALERT!
As summer approaches there is an annual migration to our favorite vacation spots. In the tristate area, over a half million people make the annual pilgrimage to the Catskills summer...
13 Jul DAF YOMI AND NINE LAMMEDS IN A ROW
Last week, we mentioned the unusual phenomenon that in Aleinu, the first 7 words in a row all contain the letter lammed. Upon further investigation, I discovered that in Ahavah...