torah

This week is a time of new beginnings. First of all, we will read this week about Creation: the beginning of plant life, animal life,… Read More »Conversation Starter

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day that HASHEM, G-d made earth and heaven. (Breishis… Read More »The Spiritual Universe to Come

This week we once again begin the yearly cycle of Torah-reading with parshas Breishis. “In the beginning”… Starting again… We’ve gone through intense introspection during… Read More »It Was a Misunderstanding…

As the warm glow of summer gives way to the chill autumn winds, the world begins to withdraw into itself. People remain indoors, their doors… Read More »A Springtime of the Spirit

Mere hours after the creation of Adam and Chava (Eve) they found themselves at the Tree of Knowledge eating the forbidden fruit. “And the eyes… Read More »Cherish the Memories

This week we are introduced to a formidable foe who greets us upon our entry into this world and attempts to accompany our every action… Read More »Goal Tending

In the whirlwind cascade of events that fill this opening parsha of the Torah, one can easily be overwhelmed by the sheer number of subjects… Read More »The Conscience of Eden

Rabbi Dostai ben (son of) Yannai said in the name of Rabbi Meir (mai-eer): Anyone who forgets anything from his Torah study, Scripture considers it… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 10(b): Does G-d Exist? Part II

This is a new series from Rabbi Adlerstein’s Targumim series on the Sefer Meor Einayim of Rav Menachem Nachum. Learn about this new adaptation of… Read More »Penetrating to the Core

Friday Night EVERYTHING THAT HAS a beginning, has an ending, but in this case, it is the ending that has a beginning. We finished with… Read More »Here We Go Again—Differently