I can’t daven. I’ve tried- I mean really tried- not just the shutting my eyes tightly and swayed type of tried. I’ve tried charts, incentives and threats. I’ve tried saying the words slowly, and then super fast as not to let myself lose concentration... I’ve even tried completely stopping to daven... The free time was nice.

The home of Jewish belief is the siddur.... We do not analyze our faith; we pray it. We do not philosophize about truth; we sing it.

The Magen Avraham adds that the reason for the custom not to make weddings during the Nine Days is that it is an inauspicious time. This explanation of the custom seems inadequate...

Avraham Ballen often helps his older brother, Yosef Binyamin, pray. It isn’t that Yosef Binyamin has trouble with the words: on the contrary, it’s that he loves praying so much he will go through the entire siddur (prayer book) from beginning to end if not stopped.

Shabbat is a celebration of the Jewish home, and the home is the matrix of Judaism. The prophets compared the relationship between God and Israel with that between husband and wife, and between parent and child. The Hebrew word emuna, usually translated as “faith,” in fact means “faithfulness, fidelity,” the virtue born and sustained within the home.

Fast days, excluding Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av, begin in the morning. Does that mean we can enjoy ourselves the night before?

A young man, returning to his studies after being called home following the death of his father said, “The buildings were all in their familiar places, but it was a wholly different place… for the world had changed.” ... Is there any calamity which a nation suffers that so alters its fundamental nature as to be truly analogous to the existential crisis death brings to an individual?

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