Parashat Mishpatim: Patterns In History
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin
The past year shook the world. Humanity faced a pandemic, the likes of which only occurs every hundred years. Locked in battle with an invisible but...
Parashat Yitro: Two Diamonds, A Chassidic Rebbe, And A Cow
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin
There are two intriguing stories about the eternal impact of Har Sinai: one fable about two engagement rings, and one true story about a Chassidic Rebbe...
From the Chassidic Masters: Birth of a Leader
The parshah of Sh’mos is the story of a galus — of the exile and enslavement of the Children of Israel in Egypt, which our sages regard as the father...
Sh’mot: Powerless People
By Yael Leibowitz
The story of our people begins with resistance. Resistance against tyranny, resistance against injustice, and, perhaps most profoundly, resistance against allegations of inferiority.
Sefer Sh’mot begins by listing...
Sh’mos: Great Expectations
From Where I Stand
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman
We never really know why things happen. Do we always deserve everything life throws at us, good or bad? Allow me to share...
Souls on Fire: Staying True in Thoughts and Speech
Earlier this week I was studying the Gemara in the tractate of Pesachim where the Amoraim discuss the prohibition of pigul as it relates to the korban Pesach, the...
Vayechi: It Starts and Ends With Family
This past Sunday, right after a remarkably busy Chanukah, Chavie and I took the children with us and traveled to New York for my mother’s tenth yahrzeit. My mother,...
Vayigash: Adding a Reproach
By Rabbi Mordechai Young
When I was around six years old, my father was playing baseball with me. He pitched and I got a smashing hit. (Well, with only one...
Musings of a Shliach From Montana: Divine Providence
Last week, as we went to print, I told you that we were gearing up for our first-ever menorah parade due to the COVID reality of not being able...
Miketz: Vitamin B for Bitachon
By Rabbi Mordechai Young
When I was in high school, many of the students would go out to eat in one of the local restaurants. One day, my friend began...
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