24 Feb BIGDEI MALCHUS 2026
In this week’s parsha, Tetzaveh, we learn of the special garments worn by the Kohein Gadol, and the Kohanim. Elaborate clothes worn while they did their avoda, sacred work in the Mishkan, and in...
In this week’s parsha, Tetzaveh, we learn of the special garments worn by the Kohein Gadol, and the Kohanim. Elaborate clothes worn while they did their avoda, sacred work in the Mishkan, and in...
Money Two Jews, Yankel and Shmerel, were walking past a church. A sign on the church read “$20,000 to all who convert today!” Both were out of work and had been for quite some time. Shmerel said, “Yankel, I’m going...
Based on a talk I delivered at the Aish Legacy Summit in Bal Harbour on February 11, 2026 I want to begin by a c k n o w l e d g i n g something...
Last week, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a forceful order requiring the state to advance long- stalled plans for a permanent egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel- the Western Wall, intensifying a decades-long legal and religious struggle over who...
Dear Rabbi and Shira, I am a lady in my late 20s, and I would very much like to get married. Baruch Hashem, I come from a wonderful family, but for...
Is It Permissible to Block Roads? Recently in Israel, blocking roads has become a common phenomenon, and therefore the halachic perspective on this matter must be clarified. From a number of places in Chazal and the poskim it clearly...
Over the past decade, something subtle but profoundly consequential has shifted in our collective mindset. There was a time when “free” felt like a gift: unexpected, generous, and almost miraculous. But slowly, and without notice, “free” stopped feeling like...
Parshas Terumah concerns itself with the Mishkan and the vessels used therein. The truth of the matter is that for the next five parshiyos — Terumah, Tezaveh, a good part of Ki Sisa, Vayakhel, and Pekudei — this...
With great excitement, Purim is rapidly approaching! So, as we take out our copies of Megilas Esther and the many amazing commentaries, I’d like to share with you a powerful observation I once noticed with the help of...
The Zohar (Chadash 7:) writes, “Klal Yisrael gives parnassah to their Father in heaven.” The Nefesh HaChaim (2:6) explains that just as food makes the connection between body and neshamah (and without food, the neshamah departs), similarly, the Zohar teaches, Hashem’s connection to the...