Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Schochet
All my fault?
Dear Rabbi,
We have a daughter who has taken up drugs and gotten in with a wrong crowd. More like a rich brat...
Tehilim – Psalm 17
In this week’s psalm, we start with a phrase that is tremendously essential for the Jewish people throughout life, “Hakeshivah rinati ha’azinah tefilati –...
Parshat Pinchas
Why are almonds significant for us?
This Shabbat, the first Shabbat of the Three Weeks, we will be reading a Haftorah from the first chapter...
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Schochet
How holy is your body?
Dear Rabbi,
My grandfather is critically ill and I just found out he has requested that he should be cremated. My...
Tehillim Psalm 16
This week’s Tehillim is in memory of Esther bat Yaacov Moshe
In this week’s psalm, we open with the line that has been used by...
Parshat Balak
There were nearly four paragraphs of the Shema.
The Gemarah in Mesechet Brachot (12) tells us that originally, our sages wanted to add a fourth...
Tehillim Psalm 14
In this week’s Psalm, King David reflects on a world where degraded people deny Hashem exists and therefore, they persecute Israel, thinking that they...
Parshat Korach
What made Korach do something so crazy?
Even the most egotistically minded person would have realised that his revolt against people who had been appointed...
Tehillim Psalm 13
In today’s world, where evil seem to prosper in every country, the righteous could well be forgiven for thinking that our exile is a...
Thoughts on the Parshah
BY Rabbi Aryeh zev Saunders
In chapter 13 verse 16 Moshe changes Joshua’s name from Hoshea to Yehoshua by adding an extra letter, Vav. Rashi...
