Batya Jacobs

At the Rammon crater, I looked down and saw all those different coloured layers. I tried to imagine myself living in the time of each layer.

Features On The Jewish World

Birdsong

By Batya Jacobs

Our paths were paved, streetlights went up and we started looking like a place and not just some scattered houses.

Marriage and Relationships

Rav Ezriel Tauber says that a husband and wife are like two rough diamonds. A rough diamond can become a priceless, pure jewel, but only if another diamond is used to remove the impurities. So HaKadosh Boruch Hu puts together two perfectly matched rough diamonds. He makes sure that they have their little differences. The friction from these differences scrapes away at their impurities so they gradually become multi-faceted, pure, shining jewels.