Shavuot reminds us that the past is never dead. It’s not even past.
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Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Ba’Omer or La’Omer? The Joy and Pain of Time
Our ability to anticipate is diminished, not by the anticipation itself, but by our awareness that the road ahead is shortened.
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Yom Ha’Atzmaut: A Day Deserving of Celebration
The fact that modern Israel may not as yet be the fulfillment of all Messianic dreams and aspirations does not, cannot and must not mean its rejection, denial, or disdain.
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We Are One: Community, Unity, and the Command, “Be Drunk on Purim”
The challenge to become intoxicated with love and compassion.
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Teacher: Love Your Student
Our students need more than chapters, pages and lessons.
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Rosh Chodesh: A Lesson in Renewal
The Jewish nation is like the moon: when we are at our smallest, downtrodden and humiliated, we are only preparing to be reborn.
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Spinning Tops: What Dreidels Can Teach Us About God and Miracles
Just as the dreidel spins around a central point and topples when it begins to lose its connection to that point, so too do we begin to “lose our footing” when we begin to lose our connection to our center, to God. The simplicity of the dreidel reminds us that Godliness can be found in the small miracles of life.
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Iasi: A Stain on History, an Ache in My Heart
As the aftermath of the Iasi pogrom left the Jewish body broken, its leaders could do only one thing: rise from the ashes and continue to teach, to learn and live according to the eternal Torah.
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