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What do released prisoners, recovering patients, seafarers and caravan travelers all have in common? These people have all been in perilous situations, their very lives… Read More »Gratitude Unlimited

Teenage Jewish boys dressed as gorillas or past presidents dance in the streets. Younger boys wear costumes and masks identifying them as either Mordechai or… Read More »Behind the Purim Mask

This dvar Torah on Megillas Esther was adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1195 (Vayikra… Read More »Be Very Careful About What You Daven For

Friday Night ACCORDING TO THE Talmud, the Jewish people were first redeemed on the 15th of Nissan, and they will be redeemed a final time… Read More »Month of Miracle

He [Rabban Yochanan] said to them [his students]: Go out and see what is a good way to which a person should cleave. R. Eliezer… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 13(b): Explaining Away G-d

There is a universal obligation (lit., ‘an obligation on every person’) to love every member of Israel as oneself (lit., ‘as his body’) as it… Read More »Chapter 6, Law 3 – Love Knows No Barriers

Is it just me, or does the world seem to become more volatile every day? We used to say that last year, we could never… Read More »Purim: A Celebration for Uncertain Times

On that night, the king’s sleep was disturbed, and he ordered to bring the book of the records, the chronicles, and they were read before… Read More »Hiding in Plain Sight

He called to Moshe, and Hashem spoke to him from the Ohel Moed[2] Sforno points out the parallel to Matan Torah, where Hashem “called to… Read More »Wait Until You Are Called

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1198 Blood On Your Finger/Gums:… Read More »Destroying Trust is a Treachery Against Hashem