Based on material from: Our Bodies, Our Souls, by Tsiporah Heller (Targum/Feldheim, publisher) As the title, “Glimpses of Jewish Femininity” suggests, this series touches on… Read More »Glimpses of Jewish Femininity Part II
It is not customary for women to recite Tachanun. Some explain that the reason for this is similar to the reason that women do not… Read More »Women and Tachanun
Somewhere in the darkest bowels of the Smithsonian Museum there has been a box laying, gathering dust for many years. It turns out that in… Read More »Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Five
(Insights for Rosh Hashana) Imagine the world’s wealthiest investor finally gives you a meeting, after you’ve waited an entire year for meaningful face-time. You know… Read More »High Holidays & Sound Investments
All beginnings are hard… Rashi I once asked a young Rosh HaYeshiva about a phenomenon that I found to be at odds with a famous… Read More »The Beginning of a New Beginning
BS”D Volume 34, No. 47 1 Tishrei 5781 September 19, 2020 Although Rosh Hashanah is a Yom Tov like Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot, it is… Read More »Hashem Is Here
The good which is reserved (lit., ‘hidden’) for the righteous is the life of the World to Come. This is the eternal life (lit., ‘the… Read More »Chapter 8, Law 1(b) – The Coming of the End, Part II
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is acquired with… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 6: The 48 Ways: 30-31: The Big Picture
The verse says in Psalms [89:16], “Happy is the nation that knows the Teruah, the sound of the Shofar.” Rav Tzvi E. Hertzberg zt”l asks,… Read More »The Long Distance Call
This Dvar Torah was adapted from remarks made by Rabbi Yissocher Frand on Erev Rosh Hashanna many years ago. K’siva V’chasima Tova! In Tractate Brochos… Read More »Thoughts for Erev Rosh Hashana