Author:
Rabbi Jay Kelman
Posted on:
October 19, 2015
“And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah. And Arpachshad lived after he…
In one of the great mistakes in history, Alfred Nobel was lucky enough to read his own obituary…
"And you shall dwell in sukkot for seven days, all citizens of Israel shall dwell in a sukkah so…
The two central and most important tefillot of Yom Kippur are the yud gimmel middot harachamim, the…
“For there is no righteous person in the land who does [only] good and does not sin…
One of the long standing debates in ethical theory is whether it is actions or intentions that…
Teshuva tefillah, utzedkaha ma’aveerim et roah hagezeirah - repentance, prayer and tzedakah remove…
When one thinks of the mitzvoth dependent on the land of Israel we
Parshat Ki Tavo opens with the mitzvot of bikkurim, the farmers’ bringing of his first fruits of…
After discussing the general topic of nedarim, vows, the Mishna moves to a most…
One of the primary messages of masechet Nedarim is how negatively [most of] our Sages viewed the…
Just this past Shabbat, we read of the mitzvah of tzedakah. The Torah describes the case…
Adam and Cain, Noah and Cham, Abraham and Yishmael, Yitzchak and Eisav. Our children do…
Everybody loves a good story. And what one cannot accomplish through direct teaching, one can…
In our past couple of posts (here and
Moshe Rabbeinu was a most humble person. We know this because the Torah tells us so, the only trait…