Mark Twain once said: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Nobel prize winner Dr. Daniel...
The Torah in Bereishis 1:31 says that it was evening and then it was morning, the sixth day. This is the only day where the Torah adds the prefix heh to the number of the day. The Medrash Rabba 9 quotes Rav...
The creation of our world is described in the Torah as a flurry of activity. Rapidly, across a short span of six days, the Universe as we know it, is...
I. Spilling Wine Rav Moshe Isserles (Rema, 17th cen, Poland; Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 396:1) records a custom to spill Havdalah wine on the ground. He explains that the basis of...
INGREDIENTS: 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour spooned and leveled 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup unsalted butter or margarine melted 3/4 cup light brown sugar 2 large eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla 2-3 mashed brown bananas 1/4...
FAST FACTS: Official Name: Simcha Yoel ben Tzvi Melech Halevi Family: Wife & 3 children Main Yeshiva: Yeshiva Ner Yisroel in Baltimore Currently Lives: Toms River, New Jersey Albums: 4 solo studio albums- “Pischi...
The Torah in Devarim 14:2 teaches us that a person must give one tenth of his crops for tzedaka. Chazal learn from the additional word of “kol” that a person...
I am visiting my parents for the first days of Sukkos and my in-laws for the last days. We hung up, in my parent’s Sukkah, decorations that my children made...
THE BLIND GOLFER Charlie Boswell was a great athlete who became blind during World War II while rescuing his friend from a tank that was under fire. When he returned to...