Parashat Emor begins with the special laws that apply to the Kohanim. The commentators noted that the Torah opens this section with a seemingly redundant phrase: “G-d said to Moshe: Speak to the Kohanim, the sons of Aharon,...
In the third chapter of Pirkeh Avot (Mishnah 10), we read: Sleep in the morning, wine in the afternoon, childish chatter, and the ignoramus’ sitting in the synagogues – bring a person out of the world. The Mishnah...
INGREDIENTS: Chocolate Iced Cake Yellow, Red, & Orange hard candy Rolled wafer cookies DIRECTIONS: Use your favorite chocolate cake recipe.Baking in 2 9 inch rounds. Frost the cake with a chocolate icing. To make the candy ames: 1. Crush...
I. Avoiding Similar Names It is hard to find a lifemate. Part of the so-called “Shidduch Crisis” is the limitations we impose on potential spouses, even among those within the same social circles. One of these limitations is a...
Lag B’omer Lag B’omer is a day which people celebrate with great simcha and joy. What is the reason for this great celebration? When does it start? At night or by day? Why do so many people go to Meron...
Ever feel like you messed up? Concerned about lost opportunities? Missed out because of circumstrances beyond your control? What message does the Torah convey to us for times when oppoprtunities pass us by? It was the first...
Dear Rabbi and Shira, I just spent Shabbos at my future in-laws, and I don’t know what to do. They are a wonderful family, sweet, and welcoming. The only problem? The food...
The day of Lag B’omer is the day that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai revealed to the world the deepest secrets of the Torah, known as the Kabbalah, written in the Sefer HaZohar. Though it was not only these...
In the fifth bracha of the Shemone Esrei, we ask Hashem, “Hashiveinu Avinu l’Sorosecha - Return us, Our Father, to Your Torah.” Since in the previous blessing we asked for knowledge, the first pursuit for which we want to...
The Gemara says, “Reb Akiva had twelve thousand pairs of talmidim (24,000 students). They lived [all over in Eretz Yisrael] from Gavas until Antifras, and they all died in the same peri-od of time because they didn’t honor one another...