After we pray for assistance to repent, we can now ask Hashem for forgiveness. It would be phony to petition for forgiveness before we show an attempt at repentance. Thus, we pray to Hashem, “Slach lonu Avinu, ki chatonu –...
On the second day of Pesach, the korban omer, made of barely, is sacrificed. Barley is animal food. We then count fifty days until Shavuos, when the shtei halechem are brought. The shtei halechem are made from wheat flour, which is...
Last week the Charedi community in Israel was outraged to hear that the chairman of Angel Bakery and former Public Security Minister, Omer Bar-Lev, protested outside the home of the elderly Gadol Hador, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevizh, Rabbi Gershon...
While some are counting down to Mother’s Day this Sunday with great ex- citement and anticipa- tion, many are looking at the calendar with dread and anxiety. For those desperately longing to have a child but have been...
Last week, the Milwaukee Bucks, who finished with the best record in the NBA regular season, were eliminated from the playoffs by the Miami Heat, the 8th seed who barely snuck in. The Bucks’ star player, Giannis Antetokounmpo was...
INGREDIENTS: Cauliflower Onion Pargiot Shawarma Spice Olive Oil DIRECTIONS: Who doesn’t love a dinner that takes ve minutes to prep and only uses one pan and 5 ingredients. Chop up two heads of cauliower and one onion and put it on a parchment lined cookie sheet...
May one buy cut fruit from a store that does not have a Hechsher? No! We get this question all the time. People are invited all the time to meetings in non-kosher places...
The sun is shining and the outdoors is calling. Yet, it is precisely at this time, during the longer Shabbos afternoons, that we take time out to study Pirkei Avos, the Book of Ethics. Six...
The Gemara in Masechet Kiddushin teaches us, the reward for observing mitzvot comes not in this world, but rather in the next world. Commentators raised the question of how Hashem can delay our reward to the next...
Parshas Behar begins with the laws of Shmita [the Sabbatical year]. Observance of the Shmitah year is very difficult, particularly for farmers. Just imagine if the halacha required all of us to take a sabbatical from our jobs,...