Chanukah lights are kindled in most shuls. This has also expanded to public Chanukah lightings in many cities throughout the world. There is also a large Chanukah lighting in the White House, attended by many officials. In addition, people light candles...
How does a soldier light Chanukah candles? There is an important rabbinic commandment to light Chanukah candles (really, flames) for all eight nights of Chanukah. Normally, we light in our homes, either in the window or right outside the...
Parashat Miketz tells the miraculous story of Yosef’s rise to power in Egypt. After having been falsely accused of assaulting his master’s wife, and sitting in jail for twelve years, he suddenly became the second- in-command in...
Help Wanted: Ish Navon V’Chachom — Bureaucrats Need Not Apply Our Parsha begins with the story of Pharoah’s dream. Yosef interpreted that the seven thin cows swallowing up the seven fat cows symbolized seven good years that would be followed...
CAULIFLOWER CHEDDAR LATKES INGREDIENTS: 1 lb. Cauliflower, chopped and steamed 1 russet potato, peeled and grated 1 small onion, diced 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs 2 eggs 1/2 tsp. black pepper 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper 2 Tbsp. flour 1 cup shredded...
The Maharal, zt”l, zy”a, questions a seeming contradiction between two Gemoras in Masechtas Shabbos. First, the Gemora states that the time of the mitzvah of lighting the menorah, is from when the sun sets until people cease to be around...
Yosef told Pharoah (41:25) “What Hashem is doing, He has told Pharaoh.” Reb Moshe Minder zt’l (Toras Avos) explains that Yosef told Pharaoh that everything that occurs in the world, Hashem does it. Pharaoh replied (41:39) “There...
What bracha do you make on donuts? There is a custom, a minhag, that many people have to eat donuts, sufganiyot, on Chanukah. Somehow, the donuts keep on expanding. They keep on expanding in size. They keep on expanding in...
We read in Parashat Vayeshev of the hatred that Yosef’s brothers felt toward him. The background to their hatred is the special love shown to Yosef by their father, Yaakob, who made him a special garment (“Ketonet Pasim”...
“V’lo zochar sar hamashkim es Yosef, va’yishkocheihu, And the chief wine butler didn’t remember Yosef, and he forgot him” (Bereishis 40:23) The closing words of last week’s parsha, Vayeishev. Words that seem redundant. Didn’t remember...