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Torah May 19, 2026
A Shabbaton That Left No One On The Sidelines
Yachad Shabbaton More than 270 teens, young adults with disabilities, Yachad staff, and student volunteers from New York, New Jersey,...
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Torah May 18, 2026
Shavuot: Stay Until Sunday
As a therapist and guide, the prominent author of Living in the Presence, Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Epstein, integrates traditional mindfulness with...
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Torah May 13, 2026
And You Lifted Us Up
The 23rd of Iyar marks four years since the passing of Rabbi Simcha Kook, the longtime chief rabbi of Rehovot, who served...
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Torah May 13, 2026
Considering A Roth Conversion? Here’s The Catch.
There’s a moment that catches a lot of people off guard in retirement. You spent decades saving, doing everything right,...
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Torah May 13, 2026
What Do People Feel When They Walk Into Your Home?
Human beings are naturally drawn to joy. We gravitate toward people who radiate positivity, warmth, and happiness. A smiling face,...
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Torah May 13, 2026
The Child On My Zaidy’s Shoulders
With the passing this week of Abe Foxman, longtime national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who dedicated his life to...
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Torah May 11, 2026
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
Menny and Nissim embracing upon Nissim’s arrival to Bozeman Menny and Nissim rocking it on stage Rabbi Chaim and Chana...
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Torah May 11, 2026
Yom Yerushalayim: A City the World Cannot Ignore
In Moreh Nevuchim (3:45), the Rambam addresses the striking absence of Yerushalayim from the Torah. Though Tanach later overflows with references to the city, the Torah...
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Torah May 11, 2026
How Yom Yerushalayim Prepares Us For Shavuot
Hashem orchestrated the liberation of Yerushalayim so that Yom Yerushalayim would fall on the 28th of Iyar, precisely one week before Shavuot. Similarly, Yom HaAtzmaut aligns...
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Torah May 6, 2026
The Megaleh Amukot: The Life and Works of Rabbi Nosson Nota Shapiro of Cracow
Rabbi Nosson Nota (ben Shlomo) Shapiro was born in 1585 into one of the most prominent rabbinic families in Europe....
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Torah May 6, 2026
Behar-Bechukosai: Komemiyus!
A revolutionary educator and builder of Torah, the famed Alter of Slabodka, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, zt’l, reoriented the focus of avodas...
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Torah May 6, 2026
Are You Trying To Inspire… But Pushing People Away?
A man once tried to convince his friend to start exercising. Every time they met, he’d shake his head: “You...
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Torah May 4, 2026
Our Eternal Ancestral Heritage, Our Home
This week’s Torah portions (parshiot), the third and final “double parshiot,” of Sefer Vayikra is Behar-Bechukotai. Being in the Land of Israel, I’d like...
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Torah May 4, 2026
Reb Leib’s Shabbat HaGadol Sermon
By Nissan Gordon Suddenly, in the middle of his speech, he broke off. After a short pause of a few...
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Torah May 4, 2026
Bechukosai: Exile, Comfort, And Its Impact On Religion
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk was a leading rabbinic figure of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He served...
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Torah May 4, 2026
What We Gain From Pain
Ben Hei Hei said: According to the effort, is the reward (Avot 5:23) At the end of Avot’s fifth chapter (5:23), Ben Hei...
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Torah May 4, 2026
Toiling In Torah
My father, Dr. Baruch Young, z’l, worked with a heart of gold when he cared for his patients. He always wanted...
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Torah May 4, 2026
Not Who We Are
Last week’s brutal murders, of Yamanu Binyamin Zelka in a Petach Tikva pizzeria and Destao Tzukal in Beersheva, both young...
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