May 2024

There are four types of temperaments. One who is quick to become angry and quick to calm down — his gain is outweighed by his… Read More »Chapter 5, Mishna 14: Challenges – Not Problems

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1289 Performing Mitzvos During the… Read More »The Consultation That Never Took Place Could Have Made the Difference

BS”D Volume 38, No. 29 26 Nissan 5784 May 4, 2024 Sponsored by Rona and Aaron Lerner in memory of his father Yaakov Yonah ben… Read More »Live It!

This week we read the double parsha of Acharei Mos-Kedoshim. These two parshios combine for a total of seventy-nine mitzvos {commandments}–more than one eighth of… Read More »On One Foot

The Story “I love Yom Kippur” said Daniel to his grade 3 classmates. “I get to eat all the treats I want while my brother… Read More »Children Fasting on Yom Kippur

Nothing is as painful as the loss of a child. The wound it leaves in the heart of the parent is so deep, so jagged… Read More »Nothing Wasted

The second parsha in our reading this week is Parshas Kedoshim. “Be holy, because I am holy, Hashem your G-d.” It sounds like a tall… Read More »Do it Because I am Holy

THE POWER OF a moment. One second, life can be going in one direction, and the next, completely another direction. It can start all-time bad… Read More »In The Moment