Mishpatim – Agreeing Before Understanding — By Ben
The phrase Naaseh V’Nishma is considered possibly the most lauded utterance of the Jewish people. Just before the event of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, God asks the […]
Bring Back The Sages, Bring Back The Truth, Bring Back Ourselves – By Marc
Here is a thought I have been wrestling with… the world needs the Sages back… or to be more precise, the world needs US to be Sages. Now more than […]
Relationships: The Purpose of Creation — By Ben
Pirkei Avos: Charter 1, Mishneh 2 says… שִׁמְעוֹן הַצַּדִּיק הָיָה מִשְּׁיָרֵי כְנֶסֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה. הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, עַל שְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים הָעוֹלָם עוֹמֵד, עַל הַתּוֹרָה וְעַל הָעֲבוֹדָה וְעַל גְּמִילוּת חֲסָדִים Shimon the […]
Tests and Miracles — By Ben
I have a friend who recently got back from leading a trip to Israel. A tremendously inspirational and committed person, she, like me, is a baal teshuvah. Her dedication to […]
Not Easy And Beautiful… What It Is To Be A Jew – By Marc
The following is inspired from Rabbi Avi Rabin’s talk at the last Chabad Mensch Night.One only needs to take a look back at history to realize how much of a […]
Bo – Coming and Going
Parshas Bo contains the final three plagues of Egypt. The title of the parsha, “Bo” refers specifically to the way God instructs Moses to approach Pharaoh as he warns him […]
An American Jew In Paris… Texas – By Marc
All right, you got me… this has nothing to do with Paris… or Texas. Yet it absolutely has to do with being a Jew In America. I of course liked the […]
Being Equal To God — By Ben
When I was a kid, I remember watching a news special detailing how something called a T cell can get taken over by a virus which uses it to replicate […]
The Women of the Exodus — By Ben
I don’t think there is a more packed parsha than the first reading of the second book of the Torah. Shemos contains like the whole first half of the movie […]
A Resolution, A Do Over… With Each And Every Breath– By Marc
As an American Jew I feel like I get two do overs every year. One for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and then another for New Year’s Eve. Two times […]
Six Degrees Of Kosher Bacon 