All-Blue. The weekly Torah portion of Korach relates the story of a man by the name of Korach who debates Moses and ultimately leads a mutiny against the greatest Jewish leader. "The entire community is holy, and Hashem is within...
The Torah in Parashat Korah delineates the twenty-four "Matenot Kehuna" – gifts which the Kohanim are to receive from the rest of the nation. After listing all the various gifts, Hashem commands Moshe to tell Aharon that these gifts...
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. -- G e n e r a l Montgomery The Hole in the Roof A rabbi stands before his congregation and reports to them that a massive hole...
INGREDIENTS: Salad 1 package (16 ounces) spaghetti 1 cup frozen shelled edamame 3 cups cubed cooked chicken breast 1 English cucumber, chopped 1 medium sweet red pepper, chopped 1 small sweet yellow pepper, chopped 1 small red onion,...
After every one of our daily prayers, we say the prestigious prayer of Aleinu. It is such an important part of our prayers that we always say it standing since...
Someone picking the words at the Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee clearly has a heimishe palette. In 2013, the winning word was “knaidel.” In 2016, the winner had to spell...
Rashi, commenting to the beginning of Parashat Shelah, draws a connection between the story of the spies, which is told in this Parasha, and the story of Miriam’s Sara’at (leprousy), which is told in the final verses of...
Today there are many people who do not wear tzitzis, or in fact do wear them but do not know the merits and power of the c o m m a n d m e n...
Parashat Shelah is famous for the story of the meragelim, the spies. Moshe Rabbenu sent twelve men, one from each tribe, to scout the Land of Israel and report their findings. When they returned, ten spies frightened...
When you ask a rabbi a question, you are committing yourself to following his answer. But what if you didn’t ask? Do you still have to follow his ruling? Put...