The Changing Tide of Leadership
By Rabbi David Milston
In the verses immediately following the sin of the spies, we assume our leaders were exempt from punishment. However, perhaps we...
A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news
By Sivan Rahav Meir
Jewish Unity: From Milwaukee to Herzliya
"Each morning, first thing, before I eat or drink anything, I say a chapter of Tehillim...
Ohr HaMercaz – Rabbi Yaakov Schonberg topic on the Daf
ENFORCED CHARITY
A baraisa on Bava Basra 8b teaches that contributions to the kupa shel tzedakah are collected by two people and the funds are...
Rabbi Moshe Taragin on A “Moment” For American Jewry
July 4th is an annual celebration of democracy. In the modern era, democracies have supplanted oppressive forms of government, protected individual rights, and liberated...
Chosen FOR not Chosen From
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin
Our current war is an existential struggle over Jewish survival and Jewish identity. The curtain has been lifted as our enemies...
Beyond the Headlines
A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news
By Sivan Rahav Meir
Muhammad Deif, Donald Trump - Making Sense of...
Tehillim 148
This week’s psalm brings us within touching distance of the end of Tehillim. It is one of the most all encompassing psalms in the whole...
The Age of Discontent
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin
The past eight months have felt absurdly Kafkaesque. Our bizarre and disorienting reality defies any logical explanation. We feel utterly powerless...
The Curse of Flattery, the Gift of Rebuke
by Shmuel Reichman
The Curse of Flattery, the Gift of Rebuke
In describing the tragedy of flattery, the Mishnah (Sotah 41a) describes the following incident: When...
Tehillim : Perek Aleph
This week’s Tehillim, is in memory of “Hayeled Yaakov Moshe Ben Harav Avraham”
פרק א
א אַֽשְֽׁרֵי־הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא הָלַךְ בַּֽעֲצַת רְשָׁעִים וּבְדֶרֶךְ חַטָּאִים לֹא עָמָד...
