torah

This week I will seriously deviate from my normal format. This Shabbos my third son, Aharon Aryeh, is becoming bar mitzvah {when a young Jewish… Read More »Knowing This World and Using it Well

“…for on the day you eat of it, you shall surely die” (2:17) Adam is warned that on the day he eats from the Tree… Read More »The Eternal Embrace

The silly people in the following story make five mistakes as they try to make havdala. Can you find them? Can you think of three… Read More »Havdala: The Great Separation

I’m sure the question has occurred to many of you: Haven’t we been through the ritual of concluding the Torah and beginning again from Breishis… Read More »Reflections, Dissections and Connections

Hi all – welcome back to the beginning! As our Torah begins anew in Genesis (“Breishis”), we are invited once again to become wide-eyed witnesses… Read More »The Fonz & the Happy Days of Rest

The creation of man was no simple feat. In fact, Hashem seems to be disappointed with his less-than-perfect creation. He looks at Adam and declares,… Read More »Opposites Attract

God said, “Let My spirit not quarrel forever concerning man, because he is also flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”… Read More »A New Beginning

And this is the blessing with which Moshe, the man of God, blessed the Children of Israel [just] before his death. (Devarim 33:1) AND THIS… Read More »New Ancient Torah

In the World to Come there will be no bodies and physical forms, but only the incorporeal souls of the righteous — just like the… Read More »Chapter 8, Law 2 – What is the Ultimate?

BS”D Volume 34, No. 50 15 Tishrei 5781 October 3, 2020 Sponsored by Faith Ginsburg on the yahrzeit of her grandfather William Lavin Avrohom Zev… Read More »Keep Yom Kippur Going