The Crusades, 1096, and the Saga of the Ba’alei Tosfos: The Historical Context of Sefirat HaOmer

The Gemara mentions that the students of Rebbi Akiva died between Pesach and Shavuot but doesn’t mention anything about...

Counting Up, Counting Down

Physicists teach us that the movement of time is constant through space.  It moves on and on with the...

Sleepless Sermon: Yemei HaGeulah 5769 – Light at the End of the Tunnel

Even when redemption is unclear and incomplete, we are still expected to believe that Hashem is somehow revealing the...

Rosh Chodesh Iyar: Like a Bride on her Wedding Night

According to the Tur, the reason why there is a minhag for women refrain from certain types of work...