If 1148 marks the end of the Golden Age of Spain, the beginning of the end of Spanish Jewry as a…
Chukat: From One Generation to the Next
The transition point from the generation that left Egypt to the one that entered the Land of Israel…
Some Thoughts From Spain
Jews lived in Spain for a very, very long time, possibly from as early as Biblical times. The first…
Korach: A Beautiful Tallit
Tzizit and Mezuzah are two of the most popular and easy to fulfil mitzvot.…
Shelach Lecha: You Can Quote Me
Great people are not afraid to put their name behind their convictions. “And Calev quieted…
Beha'alotcha: We Need You
“Moshe said to his father-in-law, ‘We are now on our way to the place that G-d promised to us. Come…
Shavuot: A New Torah
“Every day they [the mitzvot of the Torah] should be like new”. With the exception of Coca-Cola, we…
Naso: Confession
The Torah was given to us on at least two occasions. The first revelation, just weeks after the…
Bamidbar: Laying the Foundation
Sefer Bamidbar can be viewed as a book of missed opportunities. A small group of Jewish slaves…
Bechukotai: Toiling in Torah
“These are the things that one eats the fruit of in this world and the principal remains in the…
Behar: G-d and Man
We tend to categorize mitzvot as either mitzvot between man and G-d or mitzvot between man and man…
Emor: A Holiday Treat
“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your…
Kedoshim: Look at the Context
While facts do not lie, they often do not tell the whole truth. Facts are facts but facts still…
Acharei Mot: From Pesach to Yom Kippur
“And G-d spoke to Moshe after the death of the two children of Aharon when they came close before G…
Pesach: A Second Chance
Jewish life is all too often rather chaotic. Yet Pesach and Yom Kippur, the two central holidays of…
Pesach: What Should We Read
It is hard to argue that there is a more impactful and important rabbinic decree than that of …
Pesach: Why Eat Matza
“Rabban Gamliel would say: Anyone who does not say these three things on Pesaḥ has not fulfilled…
Metzora: Time for a Haircut
Judaism teaches that everything has the potential for holiness; after all everything in this world…