Holy and Secular - The Egyptians are the ones who distributed all the frogs. They kept hitting the first one, and that is how the frogs spread through the land...The Egyptians saw that when they struck the frog it was divided into more and more frogs – why then did they continue hitting it?

A Lesson For the Children - One day a Jew arrived to see Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev. He was a simple but very rich man, a great philanthropist and a man of great faith. The man turned to the rabbi and said, "With G-d's help, my house has been blessed and I have great wealth. But there is one thing that causes me great pain and does not let me rest, and that is why I have come to see you."

Land of My Birth - At the end of the First World War (1918), the Zionist movement began to awaken in Damascus. The participants were Hebrew activists who had been expelled from Eretz Yisrael by the Turkish authorities. They established four Hebrew educational facilities in the Syrian capital...

At that moment I know I will ask myself, "Who am I to bring atonement to this man. Am I better than he? True I have not desecrated the Shabbat, but I have my own array of avayrot. So how can I bring about this man's atonement?"

Holy and Secular - "The plague is spreading, it includes almost the entire city," the physician reported to the mayor, "Our beautiful city Sura looks like a battlefield." And the mayor asked...

A Lesson For the Children - A woman came to the wise man of the village and complained that her husband does not love her anymore, and that she did not know how to make him love her once again. The man asked her, "Do you still love your husband?" And the woman replied...

Direct connection with God receded into the background as the halacha and the rabbis loomed ever larger in the religious consciousness of...

Did it ever cross your mind, that we Jews, the most clever people on earth, abide by a code of laws which no one understands...