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Torah December 15, 2025
Chanukah: From Hellenism To Today’s Culture Wars
Chanukah celebrates our national renaissance. Sadly, the second Beis HaMikdash never matched the splendor of the first, and many who had been...
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Torah December 15, 2025
Soulful Speech
Yaakov understood the importance of his mission. His father intended to bless one of his children. The berachah would determine the future...
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Torah December 10, 2025
Beyond Kidney Donation: We All Have What To Offer
By Sivan Rahav Meir This week it was revealed that the Guinness World Records organization is boycotting Israel. The nonprofit...
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Torah December 9, 2025
Chanukah: With Eyes To See
The heilige Ribnitzer Rebbe, Reb Chaim Zanvil Abramowitz, zt’l, was an extraordinary tzaddik and a legendary ba’al avodah, renowned for his sacrifices for Yiddishkeit, personal holiness, and...
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Torah December 8, 2025
Vayeishev: Leadership ≠ Influence
The earliest chapters of Jewish history unfold as intimate family stories. Avraham nurtured a household of faith, a small circle...
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Torah December 8, 2025
Save Me From Pegah Rah
Last night, I was on a panel of skilled mental health professionals discussing the nature of trauma. Much discussion and...
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Torah December 8, 2025
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
Rabbi Chaim Bruk with Rabbi Yossy Goldman of Johannesburg, South Africa Montana State college students at a pre-Chanukah doughnut making...
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Torah December 8, 2025
Satmar Rebbe In Israel And The Daf
By Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel, Esq. Spoiler alert: Notwithstanding the title of this article, although the Satmar Rebbe did indeed...
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Torah December 8, 2025
Vayeshev: The Amazing Multi-Named Joseph
By Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein Jacob’s penultimate son was born to him by his beloved wife Rachel after many years...
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Torah December 8, 2025
The Few
Israel and the Jewish people are outnumbered on every front: on the battlefields, in international forums, and on social media....
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Torah December 8, 2025
Character Is Higher Than Intellect
From the archives: This article, published on December 7,2023, was written a few days after Rabbi Hauer testified to Congress...
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Torah December 3, 2025
The Sound Of A Beer Bottle: A Twenty-Year Journey, One Day At A Time
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Twenty years ago, a woman I knew came to me with a heavy heart. She was...
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Torah December 3, 2025
Reflections At Ben Gurion Airpor
By Sivan Rahav Meir I’d like to describe a small moment at Ben Gurion Airport recently. I walked next to...
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Torah December 2, 2025
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
Rabbi Chaim and Rabbi Shaul Shkedi at the Chabad of Billings Rabbi Chaim placing a mezuzah on the front door...
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Torah December 1, 2025
In A Class, By Themselves
One of the questions that rebbeim and teachers frequently ask me is how to orient towards an orphaned child. While technically we...
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Torah December 1, 2025
Vayishlach: Nuance In An Age Of Absolutism
Yaakov’s life was characterized by struggle. Born as the second child, he literally had to clasp the heels of his...
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Torah December 1, 2025
Milah: Defining Ourselves
We have seen that peru u’revu was the first mitzvah given to the first person; b’rit milah was the first mitzvah given to the first Jew—Avraham Avinu. Though Hashem...
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Torah December 1, 2025
Vayishlach/ Yud Tes Kislev: Just A Drop
Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz was both a disciple and friend of the Ba’al Shem Tov and was one of those...
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