02 Jun Why Birchas Kohanim?
The posuk in Bamidbar 6:23 says that Hashem commanded Aharon and his sons to bless the Yidden. The Sefer Metzach Aharon discusses an interesting question. Why did Hashem choose the...
The posuk in Bamidbar 6:23 says that Hashem commanded Aharon and his sons to bless the Yidden. The Sefer Metzach Aharon discusses an interesting question. Why did Hashem choose the...
Baruch Hashem, our phones are not ringing every day with levayah announcements and shiva notices. The weekly newspaper does not have whole sections of COVID-19 obituaries. Thankfully, things have slowed...
A grief-stricken testimonial by a lifelong admirer, devotee and friend. This is not meant to be a eulogy. The death of a giant, be it a monarch or master Jewish scholar...
I. TWO TYPES OF RABBIS Rav Mordechai Marcus zt”l was a giant of Torah and midos. He had Shas and Poskim at his fingertips, which he unfailingly accessed with an accompanying...
New Yorkers have had enough. A movement of NY small businesses fighting for survival has grown into a pack of thousands of supporters and hundreds of businesses. Now, the group...
It’s necessary to talk to your rabbi, your doctor, and to your children. Until the current global pandemic made the angel of death an all too evident and unwelcome visitor in...
What have you missed the most during this terrible time of quarantine and self-isolation? There is a remarkable story that took place toward the end of World War II. An American...
All beginning students of Torah face this obstacle: in their original, the primary texts of our Jewish tradition have no punctuation. There are neither commas nor periods in the Torah...
“ Mosquito tone” is a 17 KHz sine wave that teenagers use on their cell phone to alert them when they’ve got a text message so the teachers can’t hear...
To my dear, precious, and sacred Shul: For the last ten weeks I have missed you so. I have longed to be together with our shared friends, united in prayer in...