How Much Do You Sleep?
The second project is 'A Home for Life.' It was established a little more than a year ago. This is a home for girls with special needs. They integrate into the community as they acquire life skills and learn how to live independently.
Just Follow Hashem’s Lead
Sometimes we set up camp for a short period of time and other times for a much longer period.
Yichus Is Not Enough
Great loss to Israel and the Yemenite community.
Renew Yourself
Have you ever thought about the hobby of the guy who cleans your street? Or his dreams? The city of Akko – as reported by journalist Yair Kraus – has put up new signs which make its sanitation workers into stars.
What Makes Shabbos Different These Days?
It appears that our mission this Shabbat is to bring the holiness of the synagogue - now standing empty - into the living room and the kitchen.
What Is Freedom?
Freedom is the ability to strive to find the good where no one else sees it. And also to articulate it, with passion.
People Are More Important
A society in which nobody cares about a person who falls down and dies, but mourns a stone that falls, is a society that has a problem; it cares more about physical progress than human life.
The Kotzker Rebbe: Brief But Deep
I would not want to worship a G-d whose ways are understood by the mind of mere mortals.
Stay Focused – A Tip From Angels
If we are learning Torah at a particular moment, then that is our mission at that moment, without allowance for any distractions.
Rav Herzog – On His 60th Yahrzeit
"Starting today, every child to us is like one thousand children." These words were said by Rabbi Herzog to the Pope after the Holocaust when he went out on a journey to find Jewish children who were transferred to convents and monasteries to avoid deportation to Nazi concentration camps, and were baptized to Christianity there. Rav Herzog wound up returning many children to their faith, people, and homeland.
He Gave His Kidney, And Then He Gave His Life
For six years I underwent dialysis until he arrived and saved me.
No App Can Compete With Sukkot
The revolutionary sukkah--
Selichot: When Optimists Meet
Selichot prayers are attended by optimistic people, people who believe that it's possible to change ourselves and the world around us.
The Coronavirus: Embracing Uncertainty
“All of us are presently learning a course in ‘How to live with uncertainty.’ From my experience, to succeed in this course you need to open your heart to embrace the unexpected.
With Pride Comes Peace
Say thank you for all that you have, for the tremendous abundance in your life that cannot be taken for granted in any way.
Three Messages From The Funeral
His son, Rabbi Shlomo Kanievsky touched the crowd with stories of childhood games played with his father, the mastermind, and uncovered a little bit about the relationship with his deceased wife, Batsheva.
Creating A World With Words
It is therefore always a good idea to put a time limit on our negative emotions. Instead of just saying, 'It's very hard for me,' say 'It's very hard for me right now.'
Heroic Moments
May you and all the wounded have a speedy and complete recovery, Michael. We can only imagine how many wonderful heroic acts like this are taking place each day in rehabilitation clinics throughout Israel.
A Taste Of Eternity
Last week marks two years since the passing of Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and one of the most eminent Jewish voices of our generation.
How Do You See Yourself?
After all, summer vacation is not a vacation from values or from anything that is important to us. It's a vacation from school alone.
It’s Not About You
Wishing that everyone will be remembered for life.
Nothing Is Easier Than Mocking
The challenge of observing-especially-when understanding is elusive.
What Real Education Is All About
We are accustomed to talk about our difficulties and hardships, but not to share our deliverance from them.
On Being There, And Nowhere Else
Where are you right now? And, wherever that is, are you truly present with all your being?
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Seize The Moment
The story of the Exodus from Egypt teaches us to be alert and attentive to “windows of opportunity” that appear in our lives – so seize them.
No More Strife
It would seem that this is an appropriate week to distance ourselves from Korach's path and put an end to all lingering controversy and strife.
A Prayer Regarding Politics And The News
Make a portion of your Torah a part of me so that I do not waste my time reading articles and hearing analysis based on guesses and futile evaluations that pop up all of a sudden and are just as quickly proven wrong.
What Do We Do About What We Hear?
Vast amounts of information compete for our attention. Every day we are subjected to a glut of news, but how many of us are moved by any of it to do something?
What’s Your Ark?
"Even when flood waters are raging all around us and everything looks bleak, there is a Noah's ark that can save us. When a person feels low and downcast, the best advice is: 'Make yourself into an ark' (Genesis 6:14).