Honor your father and mother, as the L-rd your G-d has commanded you, so that you may live long. (Devarim 5:16) Why should we honor our fathers and mothers? The Torah gives us one reason in Parashas Shemos (20:12),...
INGREDIENTS: 8 chicken bottoms – I used only the thighs feel free to use whatever pieces you prefer. 1.5 pounds of baby potatoes, cut in half 1 lemon, juiced 1 orange, juiced 1 tablespoon mustard 1/4 cup...
With great relief, we’ve arrived at Shabbos Nachamu, 5785. The days of mourning are behind us and we experience a Shabbos Nachamu, a Shabbos of comfort, which falls this year on the very happy day of t’u b’Av, the...
The rule is that after a difficult period, better times follow. For example, the Ramchal teaches, “After a hunger year, Hashem brings a lot of rain to the world.” Also, there is a saying: “After a fire, Hashem sends wealth.”...
How might the upcoming regulatory changes and volatile trade policies impact the ingredients used in kosher-certified foods? Proposed bans on certain synthetic food additives and rising tariffs on plant-based ingredients may create challenges for...
P a r a s h a t Va’et’hanan begins with Moshe’s impassioned plea to G-d that he be allowed to enter the Land of Israel. Speaking to Beneh Yisrael before his passing, Moshe recalled how “I beseeched...
Yosef Vs. Moshe “G-d became angry with me because of you, and He did not listen to me,” Moshe states in the beginning of this week’s parsha (Vaeschanan). “G-d said to me, ‘It is too much for you!...
After rising for many years, the di- vorce rate in the United States today is lower than it was a decade ago. But be- fore you celebrate, the reason is not because of a sudden increase in blissful...
Rav Pam (Ateres Avraham, Chayei Sar- ah) quotes Rabbeinu Bachya, who instructs us that when looking for a spouse we should not place an overem- phasis on looks, money or yichus, but rath- er the bulk of the...