יום ראשון, י״ג תמוז תשפ״וSunday, June 28, 2026
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Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman is rav of Congregation Ahavas Israel in Passaic, New Jersey. His book, “The Elephant in the Room,” is available either directly from the author or at Amazon.com
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By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
May Hashem bless President Trump.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
I humbly ask you to indulge me as I recall a memory from 56 years ago, a memory that taught me the meaning of love.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Yet, even if I did want to indulge in the game, being a rav and being inundated with appointments, phone calls, texts, emails, shiur prep, communal meetings, counseling, learning, and writing…I am precluded from sacrificing three hours to watch the game.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Enjoy! Whatever you do tonight between 6:00 and 9:30- please remember to say a chapter in Tehillim for Acheinu Bnei Yisroel.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
"Each story I am privileged to hear from you is a gift from Hashem. It allows me to spend more time with you. How can I not smile?"
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Today, Hashem allowed me to pay back my Zaydie's debt. Thank you and Yasher Koach!"
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
The day of Tu Bav in particular would take on a festive air with thousands of families, shidduch-dates and tourists out and about...but not this year. Why aren’t you here?
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Was it a Yom Tov today? Why are the Kohanim going to the Duchan? And then I remembered, here in Eretz Yisroel we are privileged to be Benched from the Kohanim daily!
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
“Four Crak! Three Bam! Eight Dot!” The words roll off the tongues of the four women, intensity focused on the small rectangular tiles before them. The tension builds as the women, all concentrating on the strange-looking tiles before them, as if they are on a life-saving mission, are vying to be able to scream out […]
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
“Do not judge your fellow man until you have reached his place.” (Hillel, Pirkei Avos 2:4)
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
I sat in rapt attention as I listened to the brutally honest debunking of the delusional idea that the German people had morphed into a moral, ethical people. It was that night that turned me into a Talmid of Rav Schwab.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
The "Enemy of my enemy, is my friend" may be accepted wisdom but in fact, a partnership built on common hatred of another has no endurance.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Noise-canceling technology has become people-canceling technology
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
The eatery even has a wonderful non-eating option: You can purchase a coupon, redeemable for one pizza pie
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
May the Jewish people know many, MANY more simchas.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Enough of Lufthansa. Just don’t be surprised. After all, this is their legacy.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
The Landsmanshaft and Broadway Joe
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
In the "best" case scenario, they felt the allegations were serious enough to act on them immediately. In the "worst" case scenario, they felt this was just the tip of the iceberg as rumors against him had been circulating for years.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
A true story that will inspire hope: Herschel, the HERO
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Eruvin 13bFor three years, the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai argued. One said, 'The halakha is like us,' and the other said, 'The halakha is like us.' A heavenly voice spoke: "These, and these are the words of the living G-d…Elu (these) V'Elu (and these) are both valid… Most of us […]
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Were the people who came to the Capitol, a “Mob?” or were they “rioters”? Were they “protestors,” or should they be referred to as “Maga Supporters”? Did Mr. Trump “incite” the “mob,” or did he “call in the National Guard” to quell the disturbance?
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Nothing could deter her. Her determination and her stamina were the stuff legends are made of.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
I realized I was in the presence of true greatness.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
I daven that this will be the last Shavuos we will be forced to be socially distant from each other. Missing you all and pining to get back home.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Let us take encouragement from the way Hashem responds to Aharon in reminding us that our children have the right to make their own decisions, and we are not to be blamed for these decisions.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Is this the situation we find ourselves? Do we have to decide who will live and who will die?
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
My wife and I decided to utilize our Chol HaMoed time to travel to the “Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust”, located in Battery Park City in Manhattan. We entered the city through the Lincoln Tunnel and continued southbound on West Street to the southwestern tip of the island of […]
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Facebook is really “fakebook”.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
He wanted to elevate men. The Nazis put an end to that. At an airport, a world away and a lifetime later, he finally got his chance
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Harold Brofsky was not our friend's real name, but the story is his and needs to be shared.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
he Gemara teaches us, “From my students I have learned the most Torah.” I can say the same about Reb Reuven, but in his case, the lesson came after he was in my shiur.Over the years I occasionally meet up with former talmidim. Most say hello and inquire about their eighth-grade rebbi. Rav Reuven was different.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Was this the final recognition of the Jewish people as the true Chosen People?
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
The great Torah scholars of our nation, are even greater in Middos Tovos.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Today the 28 day of the month of Iyar in 1967- the world changed for every Jew on the face of planet Earth.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
We questioned if they are still considered Kedoshim, we questioned how we should respond; however, no one questioned the possibility that the Bris was fabricated and false!
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
We must strengthen our feeling of togetherness with all Jews and realize that just as Hashem is “Oheiv Amo Yisroel”, (He loves His Jewish people), so too we must reawaken and reinforce the realization that in the final analysis, we are all one family and we must all love each other, irrespective of the type of head covering we wear and irrespective of if the other Jew chooses to have no head covering..
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
A reminiscence of a great lesson for Rosh Hashana learned long ago on a Brooklyn playground.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
As Hashem is “jubilating” over Yerushalayim “with song”- we must emulate His happiness and join Him in song and jubilation on this historic day.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
This may seem like a strange topic for a Rav of a Shul to talk about; however, since I enjoy sharing all facets of my life here at the Shul, I am not going to exclude you from an interesting episode of my life which occurred just last night. I am probably the only Orthodox […]
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
I still recall every year on the fifth night of Chanukah as I distribute the “Chanukah gelt” to my own children, the happiness and contentment which filled me on that blissful night decades ago when our family burned the midnight Chanukah oil together with love and affection.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
The lighting of the Chanukah candles which took place just minutes after the conclusion of his funeral was meaningful in that it represented the rekindling of that exact spiritual light which he infused in this world during his over 100 years of active service to Hashem and His people.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Quotes from various sources; some Jewish and some Catholic with regard to Yerushalayim.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
The story of how a Baal Teshuva ended up in Yerushalayim when he was hoping to learn in Bavel--and gave thanks.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Aren’t there all types of danger to which we are exposing ourselves? Maybe; and indeed, as the last few days have shown, our lives are precarious to say the least and indeed, sometimes tragedy strikes and as we mentioned, we cannot understand why.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
This past Friday night, the Salomon family of Nevi Tzuf- who are my cousins- were preparing for a Shalom Zachor. The Simcha was transformed into a house of mourning
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Rabbi, please use your pulpit and your column to spread the message that we ‘older-singles’ have feelings too. We all know we are single; however, we still have lives and we still are human beings!”
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
If HaShem says, "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow" here are some suggestions for a fun day!
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
I am advocating a halachically acceptable and Torah mandated embrace of values and concerns in harmony with Torah views even if the beneficiaries of these movements and causes are primarily non-Jews.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Walking the walk led to talking the talk
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
There is hardly a family in Israel who does not know someone or is not related to someone who is being mourned on this somber and mournful Memorial Day.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
In some ways, Thanksgiving is a much better opportunity for ‘kiruv’ than ‘authentic’ Jewish holidays
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
It is almost 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; Israel and Jerusalem are in Jewish hands
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Hey Yankel, how are you doing? Thanks for the pics you sent me. You and your son really look well fed and robust. However, since you asked me how I am doing, I have no choice but to be honest.
June 26, 2026 
