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Torah September 15, 2025
Hearing The Shofar’s Great Cry And The Still Small Voice
Each year, one line shakes me as I practice the Unesaneh Tokef, “Uvshofar Gadol Yitakea Vekol Demamah Dakah Yishama,” The great shofar will...
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Torah September 15, 2025
Violence In The Media: Are You Living In A Haunted House?
The Shulchan Aruch records a law for Shabbos observance: One should not read books about war. The commentaries trace this to a...
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Torah September 15, 2025
Davening With Hashem
Prayer is hard. How do I address an invisible abstraction? How can I get into my davening if I am reading the...
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Torah September 15, 2025
Ram’s Horn
The Akeidah, Avraham’s willingness to sacrifice his beloved son Yitzchak, was the climax of Avraham’s ten Divine tests and the seminal...
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Torah September 15, 2025
Nitzavim: The Missing Horse
The revolutionary Chassidic master Reb Simcha Bunim of Peshischa was known for his unique emphasis on the importance of one’s...
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Torah September 11, 2025
Remaining Untroubled But Committed
Tikkun Olam is a beautiful concept in Judaism. It means doing any activity that improves the world, bringing it closer to...
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Torah September 10, 2025
Where Will You Be For The Holiday Prayers?
By Sivan Rahav Meir Across Israel, preparations are already underway for the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services. During this...
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Torah September 9, 2025
Born From Tragedy
Shmulie Hartstein insists he’s a nobody. He’ll say it with sincerity, almost apologetically, as if it were a fact beyond...
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Torah September 9, 2025
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
Rabbi Mendel laying Tefillin with Benjy, who built the new playground and community garden for the Chabad Center The two...
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Torah September 9, 2025
The Work Of Everyday Kindness
This Motzaei Shabbat, Ashkenazi communities will begin saying Selichot, joining Sephardim who have already been immersed in these prayers since Elul began. With Selichot, the lead-up...
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Torah September 9, 2025
Multitudes Throughout The World To Unite On Behalf of Klal Yisrael In Dirshu’s Yom Limud And Tefillah
Tens of Thousands of Tinokos Shel Beis Rabban Learn to Go in the Ways of the Chofetz Chaim By Chaim...
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Torah September 9, 2025
The Mystery Of The Missing Talmudic Tractates
The great debate about the compilation of the Talmud Bavli The Mishnah is comprised of between 60 and 63 tractates, but only...
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Torah September 8, 2025
Ki Savo: Zeh Ba, It Is Approaching!
Emerging from the ashes of the Shoah, the Gerrer Rebbe, Rav Yisrael Alter, the “Beis Yisroel,” was a beacon of...
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Torah September 8, 2025
The Cardinal Sins
We all know that the 613 mitzvot consist of two types: mitzvot aseh and mitzvot lo taaseh. In contrast to the mitzvot aseh, which offer positive opportunities, the mitzvot...
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Torah September 8, 2025
A Basket Case
When the Torah speaks about bringing the first fruits to Jerusalem in baskets, it uses a non-standard word for “basket”: tene....
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Torah September 3, 2025
Brought Together By A Soul
By Sivan Rahav Meir When Yisrael Fenigstein speaks about his grandson Ma’oz who fell in Gaza, he says softly: “We...
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Torah September 2, 2025
The Daf, The Price Of Property, And The Pricelessness Of Life
By Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel, Esq. Jewish law is so sensitive to the rights of every person that it even...
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Torah September 2, 2025
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
One of the hundreds of homes in Urk with an Israeli flag On Sunday, the 7th of Elul, or as...
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